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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dr. Wayne Watson, Chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago, Clyde El-Amin, President of Kennedy-King College and Marv Dyson, Radio Executive/Director of Operations of 89.3 WKKC-FM take stand on offensive language/message of Hip-Hop music. CHICAGO (May 3, 2007) - 89.3 WKKC-FM Radio is owned by the City Colleges of Chicago and is located on the campus of Kennedy-King College, at 6301 S. Halsted Street Ave. 89.3 WKKC-FM Radio programs approximately twenty-five hours of R & B and Hip Hop music weekly. R & B and Hip-Hop music is aired on Monday through Friday from 2pm-7pm and on Saturdays from 12 noon-6pm. For the past few years, 89.3 WKKC-FM has been wrestling with how to handle the violent, sexually explicit, derogatory, racially offensive language in much of the Hip-Hop music that is heard on the radio today. After much deliberation, Dr. Wayne Watson, the Chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago, Clyde El-Amin, the President of Kennedy-King College and Marv Dyson, Director of Operations of 89.3 WKKC-FM, have decided that effective immediately 89.3 WKKC-FM will no longer play any songs that contain lyrics that are violent, sexually explicit, derogatory toward women, or racially offensive. “Being a radio station that is under the auspices of an institution of higher learning, 89.3 WKKC-FM will NO LONGER bleep, delete or edit out the offensive language in the songs we play . . . We simply won’t play them AT ALL . . . In other words enough is enough!”, says Dyson. Dyson believes that the creators of Hip-Hop music are, for the most part, incredibly talented wordsmiths and the messages in their music can, with a little more thought, be just as impactful and relevant without the offensive language . . . “If we do not respect ourselves AND our brothers and sisters in the lyrics that are created, HOW can we expect others to respect us? If Hip-Hop is the music of TODAY . . . Let’s begin to create a genre of Hip-Hop music that we can be proud of today and tomorrow,” says Dyson. |
