HIP HOP just GROW UP!

Part of HIP HOP GROWS UP, Inc. chief mission is to bridge the gaps in education between parents/guardian, youth and educators. But, there are so many issues that create the holes, in the first place.

Part of the ills are when people like Shawty-Lo and his fake/real shoot outs happen and his disses about T.I., while he is trying change his image, actions, and etcetera to be more positive, influence young people to do the same things, to whomever, but not live or come out of those situations unscathed, like him.

Or, when rappers like “Rick Ross,” and countless others, set an influential example of glamourizing the hood life by pretending or not pretending. Whether he is or has done what he says, “which I have learned,” it is at least partially true that he has done his share in the hoods between Florida and Georgia, at least. This is not the issue.

The message getting across to the kids is that, it’s okay to aspire, to be or not to be, a guys or girl, who sells dope in the hood. We are telling kids that if you want to be a “cool rapper with certified street-cred” it’s cool to brag about your street life, so essectially, you’d better have a real street life to brag about.

Maybe the message was supposed to be, be yourself and excel, whether you lived the street life or not. But image is everything people. And what they see is that, here is this rapper, who talks about selling this and selling that on his albums and makes $$$, from bragging about it. And this same rapper, is lying or denying his involvement as ever having been an officer of the law.

No matter how you slant, switch, or tell the story, it’s all the same.

NEGATIVE IMAGES, NEGATIVE WORDS. NEGATIVE MESSAGE TO THE YOUTH.

The founders of HIP HOP GROWS UP, Inc. just got tired one day and said let’s stop the madness. We are not doing a great job as being role models, preserving our youth, and ultimately preparing and preserving our future as a lasting force to be reckoned with. WHAT HAPPENED? The generation of 40 and below have ste forth some detrimental ills on our generation, which may cause us to not have prosperous futures…or simply cause us to be rare and worse: extinct.

For real.

Keep in mind, that HIP HOP GROWS UP, Inc. is not here to hurt, rather to help, and to help heal us from our transgressions for change. We come from this same community. We understand the struggles and we don’t get involved in celebrity beef. We just want to restore our village to raise our youth in a conducive environment, so that we are here and prepared to compete with nations of other youth, in the future.

HELP US! Big Momma and Big Daddy had it right. We have to be here for one another…and ya’ll know, we are telling the truth.

Stop the Hatin’ and forget about the Haters and GROW UP!

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Let’s change some blood types, together.

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