In the age of censorship and 5 second delays, I fully agree with what Jay-Z in saying on this one. He even touched this on his song Ignorant Sh*t. Hip-hop is blamed for it all. Is it that America needs a scapegoat and Hip-Hop is it? Or is it that hip-hop is too powerful a form of expression? Sure enough, the subjects, sound effects, and the lyrics, etc, aren't the greatest, but neither is country music. They have the most depressing shit ever. Listening to country when you're sad, makes the situation worse! Listening to hip-hop when you are down, may make you feel better. Hell, I know it makes me want to go out and kick it (listening to Jay-Z Party Life).

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Check out this report:

JAY-Z has hit out at those calling for controversial hip-hop lyrics to be censored in the aftermath of U.S. radio show host DON IMUS' racist remark, insisting the incident had nothing to do with rap music. The star - real name Shawn Carter - was upset hip-hop was the only art-form targeted after Imus was axed from CBS Radio in April '07 for calling the mostly-black Rutgers University Women's Basketball Team "nappy-headed hos" on-air. Jay-Z tells U.S. publication Blender, "I don't have a problem talking about censorship. If we're gonna talk about it with movies, if we're gonna talk about it with video games, if we're gonna talk about it with all the pornography sites that are bigger than hip-hop, then I'm cool with people talking about it with hip-hop. "But to single out hip-hop and pull us into the ring with Don Imus, that's wrong. It wasn't dealing with the real issue. "What Don Imus said was racist. It wasn't about censorship, and it wasn't about free speech. And it wasn't about rap's influence, because Don Imus is not influenced by rappers. He's not a fan of rap."