These young Black artists utilize their own vernacular, the language they have created, to tell their stories. We scoff when they tell us they have redefined the ‘N’ word. Many of us were offended by the use of the term “Ebonics”; we said we wanted our youth to speak “good English” so that they would get a job. But Black youth not only created their own language,...Are artists falsely creating negative images or simply expressing the realities that exist for a segment of Black America?
