Hip Hop is a culture, an art form and a way of life for a lot of us.

The music business, however, is a BUSINESS (independent artists take note here)

Art and business are like oil and water.

Art is always changing, business only changes when the dollar begins to change hands. And while Hip Hop has more styles than the colors in the rainbow, the business side is programmed to give you more of what you already have, and more of what is proven to sell (hey, is it just me or do Joc, Jeezy and Dro all have something common? Hmmm.)

If y’all REALLY want a change, you support ART with your BUSINESS. And that means BUYING the stuff you like and not supporting the outlets that constantly push the stuff you don’t (Turn off the radio! Turn off that bullshit! Shout out to dead prez.)

Must be ya ass cause it ain’t your face

So there are also some folks at Spelman who would like us to believe that their protests have something to do with BET UnCut getting cancelled. And to that, I can offer nothing but a LOOOOOONG overdue: “Unstable Creature Please” (I’m not going to call y’all the B word, shout out to Omar Gooding).

BET has been under SERIOUS scrutiny for YEARS over the quality of its programming. If these kids can still see phat asses at 8 in the morning and meet Yung Joc in the trap cause “it’s goin down”, that should be more of a cause for concern than what comes on at 3 a.m. (hopefully some of those kids stayed up the extra hour to hear the Word after the show.)

To the ladies who REALLY believe a victory was won, NEWSFLASH: YOU LOSE, and even if you THINK you won, you still LOSE.

Getting a real 9-5 has put a lot of stuff in perspective. I actually get up and watch some of these videos to see what the kids are seeing. Trust me, if there’s more concern over a child watching a GROWN FOLKS show (which mind you, is rated TV MA) than kids watching shaking asses while they get dressed for school, a priority check is in order.

I’ve said it time and time again. I EXPECT kids to be up at seven, eight in the morning. If a kid is watching TV in YOUR house at 3 a.m., the problem lies with YOU, not the child.

And speaking of the kids…

Ain’t a damn thing wrong with most of them. They just need some guidance. Sorry ass guidance will (nine times out of ten) produce a sorry ass child.

Food for thought: If they spent a tenth of the time studying that they did memorizing dance moves and rap songs, we’d have a nation of scholars.

And I’m out.