Recently, National Public Radio (NPR) reported on the teenage prostitution problem that is being faced by Oakland, California. The issue of teenage prostitution is highlighted by featuring two young women who were involved in what they referred to as, “the game.”
The outlet allowed the two young ladies to speak on their lives and how they were influenced and persuaded into the lifestyle. While explaining part of the issue, one of the women noted that Rap music was partially to blame for her perception of the prostitution lifestyle.
“A lot of it is glorified,” one of the women interviewed noted. “Oh, you’re from Oakland? Everybody has dreads; everybody goes dumb; we pop pills, smoke a lot of weed; parties, sideshows and hos.”
The audio version of the article allows listeners to also hear excerpts from Too Short tracks. To read and listen to the article, click here.
fuck u bitch!
and stop blaming hiphop 4 being a hoe!
personally i thnk is ur own greed that would make u wana prostitute!!!
[All of this is probably going to be ignored, but whatever, I feel like typing]
You sound like a fucking retard. If you read more than just the headline, you’d know that it’s not her “being a hoe” or “[her] own greed that would make u wana prostitute!!!” Both of the women in the article were children when they started. One was kidnapped, gang raped, and forced into it, the other was sweet talked by an older boyfriend when she was 15. The focus needs to be more on what kind of a bitch ass man would take a child, put her in constant danger, and beat on her mercilessly just because he doesn’t want to get a real job. We also need to look at what kind of area are these *children* being raised in where prostitution is an possibility. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of factors to point the finger at, and the victim of this kind of lifestyle isn’t one of them.
I agree that’s it’s asinine to blame hip hop music for poor decisions one makes in their life, but calling them “hoes” and greedy because they ended up in a shitty situation is more stupid than I can wrap my mind around. That was a good try on the critical thinking on your part, though. Might I suggest a little more practice in front of a mirror or something before you take your show on the road.
tl;dr Don’t say stupid things and hip hop doesn’t turn women/young girls into prostitutes.
Wow! No brain of your own or no parenting or how about not listening to your parents and doing what you wanted to do lead you to prostitution.
I used to think hip hop/music wasnt responsible for making people act certain ways…Until I noticed the huge amount of teenagers rocking tight jeans and the same clothes kid cudi/lil wayne wear. The attitudes of the kids has become shittier than ever too. So if people can be influenced to act/dress a certain way from the music then it’s likely women can become prostitutes from the way hip hop glorifies strippers/hookers.
SMH… people kill people, whether it’s physical or mental. We’ll never get tired playing the blame game on things other than ourselves.
Ill probalby get bashed for this, but im 28 yrs old and as ive gotten older and wiser i understand more of the effect that hiphop can have on people. Now it would be WRONG to place the blame soley on rap, just as it would be wrong to deny that rap glorifies alot of things that shouldnt neccesarily be glorified.
I personally grewup listening to alot of too short, im a fan. But I think this shit is real, hiphop spreads alot of negativity(along with some positive), and rappers never want to take ANY responsibility for the shit they glamorize. Its kinda bs to me, they always use the same tired ass excuse of “im not glorifying it, im just telling it like it is”, well maybe, u might be telling it like it is but theres usually some romanticizing goin on in there also! And thats cool. Im jus tired of rappers that are smart enough to understand acting like they dont understand the bigger picture out there. Rap these days is just about me,me,me
You share valid points my dude. There are people that live a particularly foul lifestyle, but there are only two different types of people after that: those that continue surrounding themselves in the mess they live in or people that actually make a difference to erase that lifestyle not only for themselves but for the people around them.
So yeah, despite Too $hort’s legendary status in West Coast Rap, I still feel a devil is still a devil no matter how angelic their presence is.
I agree, but if your gonna say that, you gotta blame Movies, magazines and everything else that makes that kind of lifestyle look appealing.
Of course, if you start throwing up walls at everything that could potentially be a bad influece, we’ll be left with nothing but the Disney Channel to watch and Christmas carols to listen to, so I’d rather take my chances hoping my kids arent retarded enough to live their life by what a rap album tells them
They should listen to The Coup and start a revolution
Anybody who lives their life according to what a rapper says is too fuckin stupid to care about anyway, if your that easily mislead the world would probably be a better place without you
co-siiiigggnnnn!!
hiphopbaby76
yo man these skanks need a ass whooping. go school learn somethin’. why y u out there selling ur ass like that?! u wanna blame people who say shit to entertain us and use it as a crutch. tell the real your just a whore…u love sucking dick, you love getting fucked..stop acting like you don’t,plus your ass got paid for that interveiw they told u you would get paid x amount if you say rap made you do it….tell the REAL
What you said was horrible. I hope you read the complete article from NPR. Some women are forced into that situation.
yea I know, i believe a lil bit of that though.But these lil chicks aint got nobody to guide them(who you think they get it from….) but still if you older enough to have sex than you should know better yourself, they pretty much like this and would do it everyday if they could.
Did you listen to the girls? One girl was kidnapped and forced.
ANY MAN THAT MESSES WITH A MINIOR NEEDS TO BE PUT TO DEATH.. Pimp, john.. doesnt matter.
Men that use little girls are disgusting. There is no way a girl at the age of 14 to 18 knows what she wants in life and has a mind frame that can handle the life of prostitution. I find it disgusting that these pimps will exploit a child. I find it disgusting that men will pay a child. I find it outrageous that this is going on. These girls will have mental damage that they will struggle with for the rest of their lives. It all starts at home. Children deserve loving, supportive parents, and the reality is that many youth do not have it. This isn’t just a parenting problem, a pimp problem, a john problem. It is put simply, a community problem.
Yeah, I believe that a good number of women are forced into prostitution, but I got a strong feeling that the women in this interview probably weren’t the ones who were forced.
They probably exactly what hiphopbaby76 said: whores.
People can’t blame their actions solely on rap music but, music (along with movies and TV shows) that glamorizes that particular lifestyle has great influence people.
Constantly watching that behavior or hearing it in music all the time makes it seem normal and/or “coolâ€. But of course, we’re gonna continue to hear/see this type of stuff on TV/radio because it’s entertainment; it’s what people like to see or hear on the radio, so it’s gonna continue to get air play. It’s up to us, as individuals, to know right from wrong and to be able to make better decisions.
Dam what the fuck is new….shits been like that in tha O for decades.
so since hip hop made me do it….i sell drugs b/c of it?……i bust my gun for it?……..and i hate the police b/c it told me too?…..NO!!!! I DID ALL OF THESE THINGS, AND THEN I MADE A SONG ABOUT IT… SO WHO YOU GONNA BLAME ME OR HIP HOP?
YOU DECIDE
you dont bust guns or sell shit.
shut the fuck up fraudulent gangster want to be
I think the point of what he said was that he decided to do the crazy shit on his own, and wasn’t “forced” to do it because of hip-hop. I don’t think he was really trying to convince us of anything.
There may be victims, but I don’t believe in sob stories either. These girls know damn well what they’re doing, yet remain loyal to these losers despite the fact they aren’t even getting paid in most cases. I think the police need to do a better job of sending a message to all Bay Area rappers who talk about and who engage in this type of behavior. Make it very clear that it won’t be tolerated. Fine them a hundred thousand for every song where they make a reference to selling a teenage girl. They’ll change their tune fast.
reality of it to me is that these girls are just victims of our misled society…hip hop music didnt do it but it could have influenced it just as our magazines our movies etc etc has done…glorification of money is at the root of our society…to gain that…by any means necessary…so tell me…how in the fuck is it better selling drugs and killing off friends and family or causing them to fall to addiction…and half of y’all that r hatin on these CHILDREN have their own skeletons in the closet? the shit that u dont wanna say about urselves that u do wrong…but these girls are out there…so they’re not shit on planet earth? we’re all god’s children…i aint condoning the lifestyle but half of y’all muthafuckas were born and raised in middle class america on this site and then jus pose as thugs n shit talkin like u kno the deal wen u aint got a fucken clue…if u kno wat it’s like to b pushed into shit like this…or u were raised in that environment maybe ud see the bigger picture…ur ass is just as influenced by the music and media that we all see and listen to as they r…only in different ways…i aint blamin the music…but sum artists do have a tendency to glorify that out of women…some artists do have a tendency to speak on women in a low derogatory sense…so how the fuck r u to judge them? for doing wat u do…only from the opposite spectrum? think b4 u fucken speak…their lifestyle aint rite…but it’s also nothin most of y’all kno about…so like the bible said and jay quoted in a song “he without sin…cast the first stone”…otherwise SHUT THE FUCK UP