WAYNE BRADY DOESN’T WANT DAUGHTER LISTENING TO ‘STEREOTYPICAL HIP HOP’
Comedian and recording artist Wayne Brady is a stickler for good music, and doesn’t want his daughter listening to just any music. The singer previously recorded an album with Disney, called ‘Radio Wayne,’ so that Maile,9, and other kids can have an alternative to modern day hip-hop music.
“The stuff I love is the old-school party hip-hop instead of songs that glorify everything that I think is stereotypical that others may think about my culture. I don’t identify with it in my own life and I don’t want my daughter listening to it. I want to make sure she takes in the good,” says Wayne.
Although he loves making people laugh, Brady gets frustrated when people only recognize him as a comedian. “I don’t run around with a clown nose on telling knock-knock jokes,” Wayne says. “I was working a long time before ['Whose Line is it Anyway?']. When I’m doing my thing, it’s always about doing everything I do because you don’t want to be pigeonholed in one thing.”
Prior to landing several hosting gigs, Wayne was a successful recording artist who toured with Brian McKnight. Maile is Brady and Mandie Taketa’s only child together.
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I agree that alot of the hip hop out now is garbage but there are more positive options out there. Hip hop show’s some aspects of american culture. wayne should look to expose his little girl to all music. Wayne can not shelter from all that he find unpleasent forever.
Haven’t seen her in awhile.
Idk, i grew up listening to some crazy hip hop songs. My uncles, they were young when i was little & they would have me in the car w/ them listening to TuPac, Lil Kim, Bone Thugs & Harmony, stuff a little kid shouldn’t listen to. i knew the words & everything lol. But i had enough common sense to know to NOT be what’s said in the lyrics & in the videos. What was rapped about in those songs were nothing like my life, it was just entertainment to me & as long as i understood that the lyrics aren’t my life & won’t be like those video girls then it will remain as entertainment. My nephew now here’s songs on the radio or on my itunes that aren’t kid friendly & he’ll rap/sing along w/ the song, but he knows not to say the curse words & know not to copy what he sees in the music video. But he loves him some Kidz Bop. He plays it on his little cd player & has it blasting LOL. That stuff drives me crazy & i won’t allow it in my car. Its like they choose the kids w/ the most annoying voices to sing lol.
A family friend of mine said something similar, since hip-hop has changed so much in the past decade. She either has her sons (who are 10 & 12 now) listen to the older stuff or lets them listen to their dad’s music (classic & modern rock, of the clean variety). She’s just steered them towards a cleaner genre or given them an alternative, so they don’t feel like they “must” listen to the dirty crap that’s on some of the radio stations now.
I agree but I grew up during the “kinder, gentler” era of hip-hop.
Define “successful recording artist”…. Anywho, I’ll check out his children’s cd for my son.
Great idea Wayne.Kids will listen to anything with a good beat even though it doesn’t make sense and is not real music.Like that song called “Hey you”by Soulja boy.Then you got the group “Mindless behavior”.Then you got Justin Beiber who was on the radio forever singing baby,baby,baby ohhh baby,baby,baby ohhh,baby…blah blah blah.I tried to watch the Bet awards,but couldn’t watch it mainly because Nicky Minaj and Lil Wayne messed up the show for me.There is no way in the world I’m going to let my son watch or listen to Lil Wayne or Nicky Minaj.I refuse to listen to their songs myself.I really don’t even listen to the radop much anymore because almost everything playing sucks.
I agree with him. The stuff on the radio is pure trash. I just pretend it doesn’t exist.
Wayne’s daughter looks alot like him, it’s crazy. lol
Yeah I know.At first I didn’t see it,but looks like she’s got his eyes.I wonder why we never see her mom.
As a youth mentor, staying connected to the music and artist that are popular is very important. If I don’t know what is filling their minds, I can’t counter those negative images with positive ones. That being said, it is hard to listen to the radio today. Sex, money & cars are the topic of 8 out of 10 songs. I like Hip Hop. Grew up on it and will probably forever be a fan of “true” Hip Hop that told “our” story in such a creative way and in a way that only we could. But if I had a child, I would not allow them to listen to the radio. When I first heard the song “Take It To The Head” I was disgusted and outraged. But even when I turn the knob off, I know the music keeps playing and young, impressionable ears are still listening.
I’ve learned a long time ago that when you take something away, you have to put something in it’s place. If you turn off the station/channel, the kids will find a way to turn it back on. But if you turn the station to something more positive, they are less likely to turn it back than if they had nothing at all. So big ups to Wayne for giving kids an alternative. I’m always looking for positive music for my students and nieces and nephews so I will have to check this out.
Bout time we see something about Wayne and his daughter, I was watching Lets Make a Deal this morning and I was thinking bout Miss Maile