While questions about villainy itself are compelling and popular, less has been said about
the implications of observing villainy. Maggie Nelson, Chuck Klosterman, Mickey Hess, and
Aaron Smuts, however, give us valuable tools for beginning an exploration of this topic,
particularly as it relates to hip-hop.
Nelson and Smuts, of course, give us reasons to be wary of observing villainy, as each
discusses how these observations can distract us from taking meaningful action or else how they
can corrupt our character in some way.
But while this point of view might be intuitive–we are raised, after all, in a culture of
censorship–Klosterman and Hess (and, really, Nelson and Smuts as well), give us reasons to
think more deeply about just how problematic watching villainy really is. Is watching a
horror-core music video as bad as, say, watching a person get shot in real life?
Your job, then, is to offer a nuanced perspective on this issue by addressing this prompt:
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