Walter Lopez is a participant in the Changing The Odds/YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia summer internship.

The Fox is sly indeed. The aptly titled Sly Fox, a stand out song from Nasir ‘Nas’ Jones’ album N*****, has been the focal point of a lot of young people who want to open their peers’ eyes to much of the propaganda being spoon fed into the mouths of the common youth.

Fox, one of the biggest and most biased tyrants in the news world, has constantly focused on the negatives of OUR culture. Whether it be the violence in rap, the language in hip hop, or even the propaganda Fox feeds us about the ideology of hip hop being based around money, violence, and drugs.

That’s what Fox wants us to believe. They want us to think that for a song to be successful, we have to pigeon-hole ourselves into a corner filled with being ‘hard’ and talking about ‘hoes’ and shit we don’t have. The fact of the matter is that hip hop was never intended to be self-destructive; it was supposed to unite, help us build, and spread music and culture. With the commercialization of hip hop came the negativity and the stasis that rap finds itself in. Rap and hip hop at one point were one in the same, a beautiful marriage of truth, melody, and it was all about culture and life. The spawn of commercialism and media involvement has reduced hip hop/rap to what we have now; half-naked women, guns, and drugs.

So with ownership of the largest U.S. station group on television, Fox’s impact on media is nothing less than colossal. Fox is basically acting as a respirator for the waning ideas young people have, and we need to change that. We have to be the ones to breathe life into our own concepts, not the giants holding the strings tugging at our armpits.

If Fox refuses to focus on it’s own problems such as the hate-monger Bill O’ Reilly, whom was smacked with a sexual harassment suit, then why should ANYONE listen to what this propaganda machine says to us? By the way, this propaganda machine runs on Supreme, but they won’t tell us that.
—Walter Lopez