By then, hip-hop and rap had become the voice of young black America, and attention was again focused on his early role in the genre.
He also sent out the sort of statement clothes young America yearns for.
They are America's youngest poor - children under age six.
In other words, young America may have been a Christian nation, but it wasn't a very tolerant one.
"We were confronted with the very disturbing reality that young America had lost much of its innocence," Bell said.
Critics contend that corporate selling and advertising are dumbing down America's young.
Now he's stepped into the director's shoes himself for Juice, yet another shock story from young black America.
A "role model" became someone who, by virtue of fame and money, was appointed surrogate parent to America's young.
The sport faces a crossroads and a message needs to be sent - especially to America's young.
America's young have an astonishing ignorance of American history.