It’s hard to hip children to a genre of music that’s littered with curse words. While we can respect an artist’s artistic expression, it’s rather difficult to play hip hop around the little ones. The following hip hop records are anti-video games, promote healthy eating and encourage kids to be whatever they want to be. These are light suggestions for a family BBQ or even your child’s next birthday party! Please feel free to also review the lyrics yourself before exposing them to your own children. Take a look!
Hip Hop Playlist For Kids : 7 Throwback Profanity Free Songs
1992 – Arrested Development, “Children Play With Earth”
“Get acquainted with the earth, the earth that eventually will take you, and the world that hopefully will appear to wake you.”
1998 – Will Smith, “Just the Two of Us”
“Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too, always tell the truth, say your prayers, hold doors, pull out chairs, easy on the swears.”
2007 – Lil Mama, “Lipgloss”
“When it’s time for lunch, my lips still rock, Lil mama melon with, the hot pink top, cherry, vanilla, flavors is a virtue they, loving, lip gloss universal.”
1990 – Monie Love, “Monie in the Middle”
“Bringing matters to a close and everybody knows, that I’m no longer in the middle, I made my decision, precisely, precision is a must for me to solve another riddle.”
2002 – Nas, “I Can”
“Before we came to this country, we were kings and queens, never porch monkeys, there were empires in Africa called Kush, Timbuktu, where every race came to get books to learn from black teachers who taught Greeks and Romans”
1990 – A Tribe Called Quest, “Ham N Eggs”
“I don’t eat no ham n’ eggs, ’cause they’re high in cholesterol.”
1993 – Raven Symone, “That’s What Little Girls Are Made Of”
“See what I bring if you like a hip hop ring if you like to see me then honey show up, cause I’m a ball of suga and this is what I’m made of”
