No More Censorship
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I feel like music should not be censored, because if you censor an artists music then thats basically
taking away his or her constitutional right to freedom of speech. No one complains when a christian group marches on an abortion clinic, so why should people complain when an artist says a few words some people dont like? These parents who dont want their kids to hear any cursing need to take control and monitor their kids closer, but no matter what they will hear it eventually. Weather it be on the radio or hear it from their own parents.
Censoring an artists music is like telling Leonardo Di Vinci he cant paint. One of the other arguments for censorship is that violent music causes violence. Well the way I see that is if someone told you to go jump off a bridge would you? If not then why would you go kill someone just because a rapper talks about it?
Most rap talks about life in poverty which many of these rappers had to deal with, there is nothing wrong with telling your life story, weather it be in the sub barbs playing with your puppy, or in the poverty stricken streets of Compton joining a gang to keep your self safe. No one stopped Martin Luther king Jr. from preaching about his ticket to freedom so why should we stop a rapper from talking about his or her ticket from poverty through music. If your father is a lawyer then youre probably going to know a lot about law, but many of these artists grew up without knowing their father so a father figure to them was probably the guy they looked up to such as the guy driving the nice car, the guy living in a house instead of an apartment, the guy in the suit not a 5 dollar outfit from goodwill. That guy to them was the gang members, the drug dealers, and the Pimps. That is all they had to look up to in the poverty stricken streets. Every one wants to have money and nice things, but to many of these rappers their talent isnt in education its in telling how it is in the streets when you have nothing.
You wouldnt stop a soldier from writing about killing people in a pointless war would you? No you wouldnt instead you give him praise never mentioning the word censorship; instead you call him a hero and put him at the top of the New York Times best sellers list. But a rapper can say a few words about how he struggled and people flip out and call him an anti-Christ and try to censor him.