Guest writer Dalton Higgins shares a different fatherhood-inspired hip-hop video each day this week
Some of the greatest art, music and cinema of our times contains curse words, profanities, vulgarity, from Scarface to Jay-Z. My daughter recently informed that me that there are certain cuss words that have become are all the rage in her school. She is not at all a fan of this activity, but it’s around her daily. “WTF” has become hugely popular apparently.
The reason I mention this is because in the canon of rap and punk classics there are a whole whack of timeless anthems that I might’ve listened to (loudly) at some point in time, whose critiques on racism, sexism and George W. Bush still stand the test of time. But now I refuse to play them in my household. Does my 4-year-old Solomon need to hear the F word or take in Hollywood’s weekly gore fest? Probably not. It’s not tremendously enlightening stuff, really, outside of the fact that teens and adults absolutely love to watch things being mangled, burned and blown up. Old-school rapper Heavy D penned this brilliant song titled “Don’t Curse” which challenged great rappers like Big Daddy Kane and Kool G Rap to compose a rhyme for this song without uttering any swear words.
