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Check this clip out from BET’s Hip Hop Vs. America segment. Nelly and T.I. represent right. I really think some old folks don’t understand hip hop, the hip hop generation is the smartest generation ever. Hip hop is the only music that teaches its listeners. Do you really think listening to Jay-Z will make you sell drugs? No, if you are from that environment you may, but listening to any of the successful rappers has inspired myself and others like me to better ourselves. I don’t think I would have become such a business minded person had I grown up listening to dance, rock or country music. No, hip hop breads hustlers.

Hip hop listeners have had their “back to the wall” and know what its like to “struggle”, granted everyone’s struggle may not be the same, but some how some way we all are inspired by this rap music. I think a lot of parents are just not raising their children properly and are not teaching them to be business minded, for the simple fact they themselves are not business minded. The majority of people have ingrained in themselves with the “worker” mentality. They have conditioned themselves that they only way to survive is to have a stable job and go to school. When the majority of extremely successful people quit their day job and dropped out of school to pursue their passion.

Following your passion, regardless of what it is, is what hip hop teaches. You dumb parents fail to realize this and instill in your children the “slave” mentality that only teaches to “survive” rather than thrive. Hip hop has inspired me and many others like me to follow our passions. Do you think following your passion means selling drugs? Hardly, hip hop has given hindsight to the masses showing them that selling drugs will eventually lead you down the wrong path. Hip hop teaches its listeners to be “street smart” and to pursue their dreams, something you dumb parents should have been doing.