With that whole "stop being racist and sexist you horrid hip hop types" thing going on in the States just now, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has announced it's own initiative to combat sexism and racism in not only the music industry, but also the TV sector. So, any sexists or racists out there, I guess you're gonna have to move into film or video games. The civil rights group is also planning to honour the late campaigner C Delores Tucker, who dedicated many of the latter years of her life to protesting against the misogyny in hip hop lyrics.
With the anti-hip hop movement seemingly gaining new support in the US just now, Def Jam co-founder and Hip Hop Summit Action Network chief Russell Simmons, who arguably kicked it all off when he criticised rappers for using works like 'bitch', 'ho' and 'nigger', has told the Washington Post that he is confident that the hip hop community won't be too harmed by pressure groups taking his remarks and turning them into an all out assault against the genre. He says: "This happens every ten years. People are blaming rap for all of society's ills. It's the potential for us to head off a nasty discussion that promotes censorship". As you'll remember, when calling for those aforementioned sexist and racist terms to be edited out of hip hop, he stressed that was 'social responsibility' and not 'censorship'.