May 22, 2013

This Week On Listen Up: Have Hip-Hop Lyrics Gone Too Far?

This week on Listen uP!

“Now it’s a lot of bad **** in the building (Ooh, Amen)
A couple real **** in the building (Amen)
I’m finna kill ****in the building (Amen)”

Have hip-hop lyrics gone too far, or are critics being too uptight?

We examine the lyrics of the controversial record “Amen” by Meek Mill and the hip hop culture as a whole and its increasing influence on the youth.

This Friday on 88.9 FM WEAA radio or www.weaa.org from 7PM to 8PM.

About Trae Lewis

Trae Lewis is currently the President of the Baltimore Area Young Republicans and serves as the National Committeeman for the Maryland Young Republicans. He is a lifelong conservative and registered Republican since 2006, the same year he graduated from Howard University with a BA in political science. In 2010, Trae served as the field coordinator for the “Ehrlich for Baltimore City” gubernatorial campaign. Since 2010 he has appeared and has been featured in numerous Baltimore area print, radio, and television media outlets speaking on the cause of the Republican Party and conservatism as a whole.