Rap Music and Youth's Behavior ABSTRACT Parents are becoming increasingly concerned about the potentially misleading content of violent themes and lyrics in gangta" rap. ... After many discussions about this topic, musicians and the music producers seem to blame each other for the violent end sexually explicit lyrics contained in their music. ... They cannot see, or feel what murder, stealing, and shooting are like when they can only hear the lyrics. ... They do what they hear, and see; and at the same time they are being infected with the violence that music is teaching them th...

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It is a unique type of music based on a beat and lyrics flowing along with the beat. ... Though it does contain lyrics that contain all of this the music cant make someone go out and kill someone or do drugs. ... All of this can be found in the lyrics of hip-hop music, but it is not there to promote bad actions on its listeners. ... Going along with all of this, the lyrics that come from personal experiences are used to be an example of what to do and what not to do. ... If you read the titles of the songs and listen to the lyrics of the songs it is easy to understand their theories. ...

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Whether it is the controversial lyrics or the vicious murders of many artists, violence appears to be an everyday element of this "bad-boy" lifestyle. ... Tupac's party recorded harsh lyrics, and the media turned the occurrence into a bi-coastal war. ... This has left many to hypothesize that angry fans, who took the hip-hop rivalry and lyrics too far, committed the murders. ... Hence the lyrics "If you don't move yo feet/ den I don't eat." ... Artist such as Troy permit many to believe hip-hop lyrics can be influential, as well as destructive to the minds of its listen...

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A suburbanite's nightmare. This was the Bronx. Adversity can lead to futility, or spawn creativity. As history has always shown, society's oppressed adapt, and make the best out of the worst situations. MCing, Grafitti, D-Jaying, and B-boying, were all created in the Bronx. ...

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