[Tennessee Elkman]

Fabs,
Here's my take on Rap music. I too listened to it and then really listened to it. I don't particularly like it but I listen to it everyday with my two teenagers when I pick them up from school. (Sports talk in the morning for me, their music in the afternoon for them) I listen because I want to know what they are listening to and how they react to it. I'm a huge music fan of all different types and the music of today is just as lryically challenged as is was in the 60's and 70's. I am raising my kids by allowing them to listen to the music they want to here and teach then what's right and what's wrong with the words and poor english being used in the songs. Kids today will be exposed to the music at school dances, with friends, ipods, etc. just like they are exposed to drinking, drugs, etc. It's up to us as parents to teach them and talk to them about right from wrong. Kind of like handling a firearm...... Hummm funny how things can come full circle.