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Twista Responds To Billboards
Posted by David
In an early post titled Chicago Church Places Billboards Around City Denouncing “Trash Rappers” it spoke of the Southside Chicago church Saint Sabina and it’s outspoken priest Michael Pfleger. The church spoke out against certain hip-hop music by placing billboards around town calling out rappers who in their eyes use misogynistic and violent lyrics. Well one of those rappers was Chicago’s own Twista and here’s what he had to say about the billboards in a column at RedEye:
“What people need to realize is that we’re not forcing anyone to listen to our music, everyone that listens to it listens to it because they want to. We’re rapping about what goes on in the streets of our cities today,” Twista wrote yesterday (June 28). “The spots that these billboards went up at probably go through everything we rap about so the people there know what the music stands for.”
He further states:
”After Columbine and Virginia Tech why didn’t rock music get accused as much? If the kids who were responsible for those shootings had listened to rap I think it would have been everywhere that they did, but since they listened to rock music it wasn’t their music’s fault?”
He also noted that the money used for the billboards could have been used in a more positive manner.
“People need to stop blaming music for the things that go wrong because it’s the people doing things that are doing them and not the music. The money from those billboards could easily be going to help make the schools in Chicago better, which will help make the city better. People don’t seem to want to help and solve the problem but just want to find things to blame for what is going on. I love the city and give back whenever I can. I’ve been a supporter of schools like the Choir Academy for years and think it’s important to give back so that we can improve the city to get rid of some things that are going on.”
It’s about time a rapper fired back on this controversy but is what he’s saying right?
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