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Hiphop is the soul of a whole people, openly on display for all to see. Some say it confirm stereotypes. Some don't. What YOU say?

It's an American style of music that will eventually evolve to the mainstream.

Hiphop is the soul of a whole people, openly on display for all to see.

What YOU say?

If true, I say may God have mercy on your souls.

Hiphop is the soul of a whole people, openly on display for all to see. Some say it confirm stereotypes. Some don't. What YOU say?

Bill Cosby has a great line about cocaine. He asked what was so great about cocaine? The answer he got was "it enhances your personality". "Yeah," he replies, "but, what if you're an a$$hole?"

The point is that just because something is exists doesn't make it great. AIDS exists, but it isn't great. Hiphop exists to solicit and seduce the most ignorant among us by appealing to man's basest instincts.

Long ago, our ancestors created art, music, laws, religion and philosophy to provide us with stepping stones to improve ourselves so that we can rise above our basest instincts. Compare and contrast hiphop to, say, Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite or virtually anything by Irving Berlin or George Gershwin.

You simply can't. Grofe, Berlin and Gershwin exist today as classics because their music is timeless. Hiphop is already a dying "art form" (and I use that term EXTREMELY loosely) and may count itself lucky to see its 40th anniversary. The hate, violence and denigration of women or humans in general, simply isn't a timeless message. It is time-stamped and about to expire.