‘m 18 years old, I’m a folk music enthusiast and I’ve seen the evilness of this crap we call hip-hop happen for years now. Let it be known, I’ve had it up to my do-rag with it. Every major national tragedy has been righteously connected to the negative influences of rap music, and the question remains, why isn’t anyone doing anything about it? Frankly, my disgust for this topic wouldn’t usually be voiced, but its recently been taken to another level.

MSNBC recently published an article on its website, titled, “Hip-Hop to Holy War.” The story is based on a 20-year-old man from California, who converted to fundamentalist Islam, joined Al-Qaeda and eventually caused the death of a CIA agent. It doesn’t end there. Through a set of logical and well-drawn conclusions, the author conveniently connected the guy’s violent Islamic extremism to his former infatuation with the hip-hop music genre.

That isn’t the only example of rap music’s solely negative role in society. On the Internet (probably one of the most factually reliable sources of information on this rap infested planet), there are hundreds of thousands of articles that rightfully blame this music for all our problems.

Recently, I decided to put “blame it on hip hop” into Google’s search bar, and these are some of the 1,340,000 titled results