Hip-hop and rap lyrics can be useful teaching tools / Mary Ellen Flannery
Hip-hop and rap lyrics have no educational value / John McWhorter
Society will not suffer if music lyrics are censored / Malcolm X. Abram
Society suffers from any form of censorship / Julie Polter
Hip-hop lyrics reflect the reality of black urban culture / Nick Marino
Hip-hop lyrics do not reflect the reality of most African-Americans / John McWhorter
Hip-hop lyrics are degrading to women / Kayce T. Ataiyero
Hip-hop lyrics are no more degrading to women than other media / Nida Khan
Explicit lyrics encourage teen sex / Sarah Knoploh
Explicit lyrics do not encourage teen sex / Carla Stokes, interviewed by Bonnie Zylbergold
Rap and hip-hop music promote violence / Geoff Schumacher
Rap and hip-hop music reveal but do not promote violence / Yan Dominic Searcy
Racist and sexist rap lyrics must be rejected by African-Americans / Anthony Asadullah Samad
Consumers of all races should boycott offensive rap music / Justin D. Ross
Music censorship threatens cultural growth and survival in Somalia / Jessica Saxton.