Hip Hop Mayor Heads to Jail

Once called the "Hip Hop Mayor" Kwame Kilpatrick is moving to a new home Oct. 28th — a 15-by-10-foot county jail cell where he will spend the next 120 days for lying during a civil trial to conceal an extramarital affair. At 31, he was the youngest mayor in Detroit's history — alternately dubbed "King Kwame" and the nation's first "hip-hop mayor" — and seemed to embody a glamorous celebrity lifestyle. He celebrated his inauguration in 2002 with "club crawls" of Detroit's most exclusive bars and nightclubs, later claiming the events were intended to motivate the city's disaffected youth.

Was Kwame an inspiration or hinder to the hip hop community?

As more and more people who grew up in the hip hop scene come of age and enter the so called business world, will they also be tagged like Kwame as the hip hop (enter profession).

Since he ran on a platform of being a child of the hip-hop generation, appearing on Detorit hip-hop stations and what not. Will they try to blame this latest debacle on hip-hop?