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As much as we expect our celebrities to be role models, they consistently let us down.

Adultery scandals, alleged pedophilia, tax evasion charges, phoned-in third albums…these things serve to tarnish our perception of artists and often keep money we’d spend on them in our pockets. In most instances, I don’t think this should be the case: most of us have a demon or three we’re not proud of, and celebrity status really shouldn’t serve as an excuse to chain folks to a different moral standard unless you’re a politician.

That said, everyone has something, and I imagine if I were a woman living in this society, I wouldn’t support the wanton misogyny coming from the most popular rappers in the game. Damn near every top 40 rapper has bars rife with negativity and violence toward women, and some of our most lauded arts have allegedly taken that off the wax: Notorious B.I.G., Tupac and Big Pun, among others, have all been accused of putting hands where they don’t belong.

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