> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://thedailyeudemon.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# Let's Hope the NYT is Right for Once
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/960/
- Published: 2005-05-12T12:05:43.000Z
- Updated: 2005-05-12T12:05:43.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

The *New York Times* this morning has an editorial that blasts the rap music industry. [Link](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/12/opinion/12thu4.html??ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpts:

> People who pay only minimal attention to the rap world may have thought the killings would sober up the rap community. Not quite. The May cover of the hip-hop magazine *Vibe* was on the mark when it depicted fallen rappers standing among tombstones under the headline: "Hip-Hop Murders: Why Haven't We Learned Anything?"

> The \[hip-hop\] music business hopes to make a financial killing on a recently announced summer concert tour that is set to feature 50 Cent and the mega-selling rap star Eminem. But promoters will need to make heavy use of metal detectors to suppress the kind of gun-related violence that gangster artists celebrate. That this lethal genre of art has grown speaks volumes about the industry's greed and lack of self-control.

> But trends like this reach a tipping point, when business as usual becomes unacceptable to the public as a whole. Judging from the rising hue and cry, hip-hop is just about there.