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Producer Says Urban Music Is Destroying Black Youth via Financial Juneteenth Grammy Award winning producer/song-writer Carvin Haggins talks about the changes that have been seen in music on the radio. Haggins says that as he listens to the music on public airwaves, he’s finding that the songs he hears are “disrespectful,” “degrading” and “tearing our children down.” He says that as a parent and concerned citizen, someone has to speak out about the music being promoted which has the common theme of “sex, murder, drugs, kill, drinking.” He says that these kinds of themes are unacceptable, and concerned citizens should mobilize to stop it. He has created a campaign with the hashtag #RageAgainstTheRatchet, to bring awareness to this very serious problem. Carvin says that he feels that music should uplift you and make you feel good. He compares it to old school artists like Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and James Brown. The singer is concerned about the fact that this kind of uplifting music is no longer being created today, and has been replaced by something more sinister. He says that as a song writer, he once leaned toward ways that he could improve upon the work done by his predecessors, but those days are no more, since young artists today don’t have any productive music to relate to. Haggins feels that the black community overlooks the music, to our detriment. He also says that those who feel that the music is just “young people’s stuff” are wrong, since many of the artists spitting out the music are over the age of 35. He says that even though artists have the right to produce negative music, they should not be allowed to do so on public radio that children can hear for free. The Financial Juneteenth lesson from this story is that most of the music produced today is created to make a profit by continuously feeding off of the growing black American appetite for destructive dysfunction. Shows like “Love & Hip-Hop” prey on the worst within the black community, making millions for executives who don’t have to deal with the fallout of these cultural norms in their own neighborhoods. Because they don’t have to deal with the chaos occurring in urban communities across America, many of these executives are fine with promoting toxic culture to black children. But make no mistake about it, it’s going to destroy a large segment of the next generation.

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For Discussion: Award-Winning Producer Says “Urban Music” Is Destroying Black Youth…Do You Agree?