Am I being Victorian mum...

[Izzrud]

for not allowing my 12 year old son to download rap music with foul and sexually explicit language? I realise these guys are HUGE, in the charts, played on Radio 1 etc etc but who else finds this acceptable?

That bloody Rihanna song
I really don't get why as a very public victim of domestic abuse from former boyfriend chris brown, she sings that whips and chains excite me AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAArgh

I agree you can't really stop them hearing all that awful gangsta culture but I have become such a bore explaining exactly how unacceptabe the messages are in those songs.

kreecher - don't panic about the P98 thing. afaik, he's actually singing 'P90X'. See here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P90X

I don't think Tinie Tempah's language on his album is too bad... Me and my kids love him and are going to see him in November . I got Nicki Minaj's album for my birthday and even I was a bit at the language on that, then I found out that my 15 yo Daughter has been listening to it for a while on her ipod as someone sent her it

Not all hip hop/rap music is gang related or bad - this is stereotyping.

I have bothe TT and Nicki Minaj - lots of swearing yes but the music does have a meaning if you do listen to the lyrics properly.

It will be hard yes, to think of your children listening to it but it is language the will soon come across.

Rhiannas album is really good but I think she is getting ahead of herself with the sex themes - too much of it for no reason at all.

Why do they all have to strip to the knickers and bras in videos? Huh

I think radio edits for under 13s is a good idea!

I saw TT on Graham Norton and thought he seemed a decent young man. I don't like his music though.
I bought Plan B's albumn, the something or other of Strickland someone. I got it in England then drove back to Belgium playing it. I was horrified that it was all about rape. DD was allowed to listen to she said and only that one. It is now somewhere in the boot of the car.
Katie Perry is another that makes me shudder.

Plan B's album is very interesting as the whole album is a story, starting with track 1 right through to the last track. It's about him meeting a girl who accuses him of raping her but he didn't (so the story goes) but he gets sent down for it anyway. Lots of the tracks are about his experience of jail. Quite dark, yes, but a great album and a lot of the lyrics are very meaningful.

I love Rihanna but she does need to put it away now really, doesn't she?

Don't get me wrong mummypenguin, I do like the Plan B album, I can't work out whether Strickland was guilty or not. I don't like the sweary track at all.

I'm thinking he wasn't? But then who knows? Perhaps he was really protesting his innocence when he wasn't really? Thought-provoking stuff, anyway!