Media's Influence

I was listening to some music today and came across some pretty astounding lyrics that I never really thought about before. On Pandora, I just happened to be listening to some Kid Cudi and notices some shocking lyrics. In his Pursuit of Happiness, Cudi says, "I don't care, hand on the wheel, driving drunk I'm doing my thing." Kid Cudi's a pretty influential rapper to a lot of young kids today. Like any celebrity, kids look to see what Cudi's doing and then try to mimic that. I think the fact that he's talking about drunk driving in his song his awful. I mean I get it, people have their personal choices they make. Sadly I can't say I've never driven drunk, and I know it's wrong and it's not too fun in the moment. It's actually pretty scary. But endorsing drunk driving through your own song? Now come on, that's not okay. Do what you want and live your life, but you're sending out an awful message. It's not like anyone's like "yeah I do meth, I'm the shit" and is trying to endorse meth to the general public. Cudi's basically telling kids that drunk driving is a cool thing to do, regardless of the life-threateneing risks. He's giving kids permission to go out and do something that could potentially kill them. That doesn't make Cudi that cool to me anymore. In fact, he's kind of a douche now. Driving drunk really doesn't make you sound cool. It's pathetic that Cudi would think he'd have to rap about that to try to get some badass credibility. Just stick to  rapping about weed, because that won't actually kill you.