March 16, 2004

Dear Sir,

I was trying to come up with another good reason why we have young people in gangs, young people riding to their deaths at high speed around the island, and all the other antisocial activity going on around us especially for the past ten years or more.

I believe I have come up with one of the unfortunate reasons, and that is, rap music.

You see young people plugged into their rap music, which is more garbage than music. You hear car radios blasting out this atonal river of offal, and you know that it's making its insidious way into the minds of these people, the foul words and trashy sentiments taking root and destroying what sense they have. The result is chaos in their minds, chaos in their lives and disrespect for everyone, young or old.

The popularity of this sound is an unfortunate state of affairs, but that is what the US music producing industry has given birth to ? and of course, the huge amounts of money generated from this base source is incredible. Despite the local complaints that everything is too costly, our young people seem to have too much money these days, so they can afford to enrich the "rap stars" until they are so rich they don't know what to do with their cash.

It's too bad our people have bought into this foul "entertainment", can't say I admire their taste.