By the term Hip hop do you mean Rap? If so this form of "Noise" and it is just that has corrupted a good portion of our young people, By degrading the weaker sex to rapping about killing our Law enforcment officers they are allowed to say the "N" word on a consistant basis. And when we object to this form of garbage they hide behind the freedom of speech clause in our Constitution which any first year Law student can tell you was intended for the press. As America crumbles these parasites will blame our troubles on Capitalism, Christianity, and any form of morality when we are finally dead ( As a Nation ) Here in California the second biggest item on the State budget is the welfare dept. that is funding unwed mothers having children, we have a 34 billion dollar deficet, that is 34 billion dollars more spent than taken in and thats just in California. The latest figures are 40% of all births in the US are now illegitament with the rate at 63% in the black community, I believe we have passed the point that we can correct the situation, America is surely doomed, fallin from within

What does your rant about America's "failing" ethics have to do with hip hop? Like it or not, people have to stop making hip hop a scapegoat for society's ills.