After making a public stance against Hip Hop and the lyrics that rapper’s Ludacris, Eminem and many others says, Bill O’Reilly and Dave Mays squared off on the “O’Reilly Factor” on Tuesday.
Dave Mays was invited on the show after The Source Magazine outright called Bill O’Reilly a “racist” and a “hypocrite” when he speaks on the his feelings for “thug rap”. Bill O’Reilly feels the reason Hip Hop artists are coming after him are because they have no way to really explain why the lyrics are what they are. Dave Mays says Bill O’Reilly who is promoting racist views on his show. O’Reilly countered by saying, “Just the fact that you say that and you use that argument because I criticize this pernicious industry, cheapens you. You’re not rebutting my argument based upon facts and testimony, you’re saying that because I make the argument, I am a racist. If I were fabricating this stuff you’d be right,” O’Reilly continued arguing. “We know what the lyrics that Ludacris put out are, we know what the lyrics Eminem put out are, we know the lyrics that Jay-Z put out. They are down on paper. I couldn’t care less about their lifestyle.”
Dave Mays agreed that the Hip Hop community had some areas that needed to be fixed, but believes Hip Hop influences more kids in a positive way. There are issues as far as what rap music’s impact is that’s allow to get to kids that’s adult oriented music and adult oriented material,” Mays said. “Those are some issues within the Hip Hop community that we discuss. Hip Hop has created a generation of those same nine year-olds that your thinking of, that now believe that they can build business and overcome the way society programs them, the way people like you who want to impose your point of view and your way of thinking, that paternalistic way on everybody else,” Mays said. “We’re supposed to listen to you, because you think you know everything, and you haven’t spent a day in the hood”. The discussion remained heated, but it was a chance for Hip Hop to speak on a public forum.
