Controversially, more Black Americans believe the Hip Hop community has or is gaining a voice among society, both politically and socially. This means that at some point, the Hip Hop perspective will become the moral base of Black America. This thought is scary.

The reason people are starting to support the Hip Hop community is because first, older generations are dying out and the new rap/Hip Hop generation is emerging with this belief system, and second, because more people believe that Hip Hop is the only and most profitable financial enterprise Black America has going.

The most shocking revelation of this support comes from the media exposure of Snoop Doggy Dog, one of Hip Hop/Rap's icons and entrepreneurs, as well as other prominent rappers. The secularist inclusion of these rappers into the mainstream media and assimilation with white America means that America has accepted Hip Hop to some degree.

This evidence can be seen in commercial promos and major entertainment events, such as music awards. As these Black artists become more accepted into mainstream America, the media marketing agencies draw on the fame of these icons to promote their products. This, in turn, places rappers into the media spotlight thus creating spokespersons for various goods, services, and eventually social issues.

Once they reach a certain status, such as Snoop Dog, they are called on by white America to push an agenda. Voting crusades, lifestyle choices, (whether moral or immoral), and portrayals of hollywoodized integration with Blacks and whites, a concept very far from reality concerning equality.

In addition, when so-called Black leaders begin supporting and referring to the Hip Hop crowd as a group we should look to for direction, as in Louis Farrakhan's comments about the Hip Hop community and their ability to ease race relations better than religion, (which will lead to the deceptive thought of rappers being more effective than God): Jesse Jackson's financial contributions to and from rappers, and Bill Cosby's fatherly relationship with and references to certain rappers, then Black America will look in that direction.

The problem is, though these people (rappers) are prominent in mainstream media, they should be far from becoming the moral gatekeepers of the future of Black America. Even some church leaders have appeared in videos with rappers and have included, as apart of church service and worship, rap-gospel, a new attempt at gaining members.

The moral base of rappers and Hip Hoppers is corrupt to the core: pimping, prostitution, sexuality, profanity, materialism, and self-centeredness, all lead to a lifestyle unbalanced and destructive for any generation. The fact that any Black leader would support and not condemn the style of Hip Hop is a sign that Black America will fall when the rest of the country does.

Many have to stand by and listen to media figures condemn the lifestyle of Black America while those same figures support a degenerate moral foundation of Hip Hop. The hypocrisy is profound. How can a child develop correctly and know how to lead or raise a family when they see media icons on television daily promoting rappers and or rapping to sale a product?

Black leadership has fallen to the seductress of materialism. This is true because now that the Hip Hop community is the most prosperous in the country among Blacks, they will compromise anything of value, including values, to get a piece on the financial action.

© 2005 By Cartel Q