Does Hip-Hop Have Moral Obligations?

The power of hip-hop in society is major, the influence they have to transcend the globe is superb. We live in a world where a Lil Wayne song has more access than a book from Cornel West.

Hip-Hop shouldn't bear the responsibility of changing the edification of the world about black culture, but it has moral obligation to the edification of itself internally not to reproduce the struggles and oppressions that they've inherited and transiting it into the future adolescent minds who are consuming their product. Most rappers/singers are promoting saturated realities to people that they most likely don't live and those which can't be obtained by the average person.

We live in a climate where sex sells, but why do we never question, "why does it have to be like that?" Why are black women in America being defined and exploited just for their vagina and things they can get because of it? Why are men defined by their sexual reproduction organs and their wallets? We are teaching adolescent males that they are expected to be surrounded and in relationships with multiple women. The average man cannot substantially afford the lifestyle that are being professed through the media. You have women using their vaginas as a means of crop commercialism.

We have eliminated the male patriarchy of the traditional family structure and transitioned it into males using financial status to place women on auction blocks and using their vagina, breast, and ass as means for commodification. You have prominent female rappers such as Trina saying, "You wanna fuck? 20 G's for the nut," or you have Yo Gotti telling us, "I heard that pussy good and they tipping for it." What message is being delivered? Of course you have rappers/singers such as dead prez, Talib Kweli, India Arie and many others, but do they have global access? No! I'm not saying that we need entertainers to subject their art form to G, PG, and PG-13, but for every 10 songs that takes place in a hotel room or strip club why can't we have a song where you meet a lady after she becomes partner of law firm, gets get Masters, or even as she walks down the aisle to the altar?

We understand that music as an art form is a formed of expression of saturated realities and they have bear no responsibilities to the raising of children, but why is it okay to reproduce negative images repeatedly? Where does the moral obligation to rebuilding communities that raise you come in?