O'Reilly calls Jay-Z and Kanye West "a fundamental disease"

While I don't co-sign nor do I agree that either of the two artists named are a "fundamental disease", I do agree with what is being implied here. Bill O'Reilly has come out and stated that Jay-Z and Kanye West are the biggest issue regarding the conditions of young minority men. Hip Hop Wired reports:

President Barack Obama had invited O'Reilly to the launch of his new initiative called "My Brother's Keeper" earlier Thursday. The program aims to create opportunities and improve conditions for young minority men, but O'Reilly said he doesn't believe the White House sees the "urgency" of the situation in the streets.

"You have to attack the fundamental disease if you want to cure it," O'Reilly told Jarrett. "Now I submit to you that you're gonna have to get people like Jay Z, Kanye West, all these gangsta rappers to knock it off."

"They idolize these guys with the hats on backwards, and the terrible rap lyrics and the drug and all of that," he continued, adding that high-profile figures need to hammer young people with that message to "reverse the peer pressure."