H
Yo Trevor, where do you think our kids are getting the ability to 'reflect on the diverse opportunities they have to help them escape a dangerous life caught up in violence and drugs' from? I agree that these brazillian kids probably do have less choices but to say that all of our kids get stuck on the street due to bad attitudes is, quite frankly, RUBBISH! I came from a difficult background & have managed to pull myself away from that & do ok but do you think everyone is able to do that? We're not just talking about poverty. What about violent & sexual abuse, bad parenting, being introduced to drugs, drink & dealing at an early age..... i could go on....
The point is our kids are not born with bad attitudes & we cant just blame them & tell them to simply look at their choices. The help has got to come from somewhere & music would be a bl**dy good start. I love hip hop & always have but some more positive & less sex, drugs & guns wouldnt go a miss. Music is like fashion, young people have a subconscious desire to follow it & if they are being told or shown by their rolemodels that guns etc are cool & normal, yet again we cannot blame them for thinking so. The artists & producers are the adults here, lets start putting some emphasis on them rather than our 'bad attitude' children.
trevor mcdong
I think music can partially influence people's short term attitude and perspective on life, however how can it improve a persons socio-economic situation? It cant pull a man out of a struggle.
Kids over here need to carefully reflect on the diverse oppurtunities they really do have to help them escape a dangerous life caught up in violence and drugs. Kids where these musicians come from have hardly any choice to escape, they're stuck. On the whole, British kids get stuck 'on the street' because of a bad attitude. There are obvious exceptions, however if they approach life postively and with a conscientious attitude, most British kid will do alright. Education on the ghetto lives of Brazilian kids in British schools is a far superior deterrent to music although im not denying bands like this will have a positive impact.
