A NEW VIDEO PUTS RAP'S ROUGHEST WORDS IN THE MOUTHS OF KIDS

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9puaImr6Bo&w=560&h=315] Created by Jimmy Smith II and Jarrel Smith of L.A.-based agencyAmusement Park, "Kids" is a video that shows a bunch of children parroting the language of rap songs. It is by no means the first project whose thesis statement is "Won't somebody think of the children!" but it manages to raise the issue in a way that represents the pervasiveness of radio rap's negative aspects. The video doesn't just call out foul language or drug use, but the thick layer of misogyny and other questionable attitudes that envelope so many songs.