Over the age of 25? Then the name, Chief Keef, doesn’t ring a bell, does it? But this Chicago-based rapper, who glorifies violence, speaks for many young hip-hop heads in urban neighborhoods.
And we’re losing a street battle him and others, the street rappers, the drug dealers and the family members who don’t have the best interests of our kids at heart.
Urban neighborhoods, in fact, are losing a generation of young men to senseless violence and incarceration.
When I hear rappers such as Keef glorifying all that with their filthy lyrics – and offering no solutions – it’s apparent to me that they are part of the problem.
When kids can recite word-for-word the lyrics from Keef’s hit “Don’t Like” – words I won’t subject you to – but then struggle to read, then we have a serious problem.
Keef is only 17, and he made news last week when he was sentenced for violating probation on a gun charge. The violation was not the news; it was how he reacted when a Chicago judge sentenced him to 60 days in juvenile detention.