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Originally Posted by jorian

Get the chain. 20 years from he'll likely still have it and give everybody a good chuckle.

When did we all get so easily offended? Seems like a lot of people look for a reason to be offended these days. It must be very tiring.

An acquaintance of mine is like this. I usually find the offending bit funny, they don't. Pretty sure I am a lot happier.

Exactly.

Originally Posted by drcoastline

I am not a fan of Rap music in general or the image it presents. I would suggest you attempt to reset your kids musical interest and perhaps what he perceives as cool unless he picked the name in jest.

There's nothing wrong with rap music. I don't enjoy most of it, but I do like some of it. Sure, there are elements within the rap that seem to promote or stand for what most folks would consider bad values, morals, etc... I'm sure you can find similar stuff in several genre of music. A good kid can listen to rap and still be a good kid. A bad kid could listen to just about anything and still be a bad kid.

I get what you're saying, but unless taken to an extreme (the kid trying to be a gangsta) then there's nothing wrong with it. And with the wrong teen, trying to steer them a different direction could have the effect of pushing them deeper in to what you're trying to steer them away from.

I suspect that you've painted a picture in your head without much to go on, and that picture may be very, VERY far from reality.

And while I don't think you're a bad person or anything like that, the way your post comes across is not terribly flattering to you.