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Rap videos laced with sexual imagery, violence and drug use

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A television watchdog organization reported in a study that three music  videos that air during the daytime or early evening hours are heavily  laced with sexual imagery, explicit language, violence and drug use.
The  three shows analyzed were Sucker Free on MTV and 106th & Park  and Rap City on Black Entertainment Television. The shows appeared  during afternoon and early hours when children are usually home from  school.
E. Faye Williams, chair of the National Congress of Black  Women, has denounced greedy corporate executives for encouraging black  youth to entertain themselves by destroying their culture.
Leaders  of the Enough is Enough Campaign, Industry Ears and the National  Congress of Black Women said that the videos contain adult content and  should not be marketed to children.
Rev. Delman Coates of the Mount  Ennon Baptist Church in Clinton, Md. who founded the Enough is Enough  campaign, requested the Parents Television Council study.
In an  ironic twist, Industry Ears is led by Paul Porter, a former disc jockey  and video director at BET who lost his job because he did not want to  play offensive music.

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