Common: Rhyming About Bitches and Ho’s Influences Kids

Common has a few pointers for his hip-hop colleagues. “I really don’t want to be preachy,” he says. Amongst his pointers is one that Bill O’Reilly would want to hear: “Words are power. Don’t think you can rap about money and bitches and ho’s and shooting somebody and then make it better by giving ten dollars to somebody in the community. Your words are probably destroying more people than the ten dollars is helping. Your words are affecting the five-year-old riding in the back of their daddy’s car; your words are affecting how the world sees you. I listen to the Roots and Mos Def, and I also listen to Dr. Dre and the Clipse — we just need to have balance in the music.”