Sports Teams, Dr. Seuss. Hip-Hop Is Next.
World War III is not being fought with bullets, tanks, missiles, or fighter jets. The streets of New York will not look like a scene from a Call of Duty video game (although, ironically, they did during 2020's "Summer of Love", but we won't go there right now). WWIII is being waged right now. The battleground is the mind. Streams of tweets and Facebook posts propagating communistic principles take the place of bullets. Instead of tanks rumbling down the street, we get corrupt politicians and power-hungry elites smiling at us on television, insisting that everything will be okay if we listen to them. Instead of fighter jets flying over and dropping bombs, we get Cancel Culture.
The destruction left in the wake of Cancel Culture will have lasting effects. Take sports, for example. Despite 90% of Native Americans saying they are not offended by the term "Redskin", Cancel Culture zealots pressured corporations, who then pressured the NFL to have Washington change their team name. "Future generations of Native youth will no longer be subjected to this offensive and harmful slur every Sunday during football season," says Ray Halbritter, founder of the Change the Mascot campaign. Likewise, in Major League Baseball, the Cleveland Indians are no more. It will not stop there. The Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs, Florida State Seminoles, Illinois Fighting Illini, and the Chicago Blackhawks might find themselves in the crosshairs.
One of the Cancel Culture sleuths must have been reading their child a bedtime story and became offended by If I Ran The Zoo by Dr. Seuss. That is one of the six of the author's books that have been pulled because of images that "portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong." You can view all the oh-so-hurtful pictures here.
Where else has racist rhetoric, imagery that is "hurtful" and "wrong", violent and derogatory references, and other inappropriate behavior allowed to be shared with the masses?
Hip-Hop.
You'd think that what Hip-Hop music would be to Cancel Culture is what a gun law is to Beto O'Rourke.
Rap music is full of what the Left would call "racist" or "offensive". Look at the N-word. According to a study by Musixmatch, Hip-Hop is the most profanity-laced music genre by a vast margin. 1 in every 47 words is a profane word, compared to Heavy Metal (1 in every 352), Electronic (1 in every 498), and Pop (1 in every 904). The phrases "nigga", "niggas", and "niggaz" make up 24% of all profanity in Hip-Hop. If you were to remove all N-word variants, Hip-Hop would still have a 1 in every 74-word ratio of profanity.
Misogyny claims have long been slung at Hip-Hop. The words "bitch" and "bitches" make up 12% of all profanity in Hip-Hop. And the women are just as guilty as the men. Cardi B brags about being a "bad bitch". Feminist groups routinely oppose male rappers who perform with scantily clad women dancing about. People still will not let Nelly off the hook for the Tip Drill video (despite the fact those women chose to sexually objectify themselves). Also, the term "bitch" is a gender-exclusive term, which goes against the gender-neutral narrative the Left is pushing forward. "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't 1" would be much to the chagrin of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Drugs references are a big part of the Hip-Hop lexicon. A study from the University of South Florida found that, on average, there are roughly 2 drug or alcohol references per Rap track. Atlanta rapper Future is the gold standard for marijuana references, with an average of 23.4 per track. Studies, for years, have linked Rap music and drug abuse.
If you think about it, it's quite remarkable that Cancel Culture has not come for Hip-Hop yet. Perhaps it is because Democrats realize Hip-Hop, just like every other form of media, can be exploited to their advantage to maintain their 97% monolithic black voter base. Maybe Hip-Hop is too profitable for so many elites. The day of reckoning will come for Hip-Hop. As conservative books are being scrubbed from the Amazon library for "hate speech", Rap songs might face a similar fate down the road. How many iconic Hip-Hop songs or albums would meet the cockamamie hate speech criteria of some of these organizations?
Start burning your favorite music to a CD. The Hip-Hop purge will be here before you know it.
