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. ... Rap Music and Youth's Behavior Gangsta' Rap and its violence Music has always had a tremendous affect on cultures and societies around the world. ... Parents are very apprehensive about their children's principles, and the behavior they learn from gangsta' rap music. ... At that time, rap was just another kind of dancing music that made people vibrate in clubs and at parties. ... Ra...

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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. All of these art forms wo...

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Yes, it is music. ... This disc jockey made music that the world adored. ... Rap artist Ice Cube says, "They"re pioneers. Run-DMC made rap emerge out of hip-hop to be the signature art." ... However, others decided to produce music that speaks of hell, sin, the devil, and damnation. ...

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Hip-hop music like all other forms of music is a form of art. ... People grow up to a different types of music and that's understandable. This does not give anyone a reason to criticize the music of our generation. People try to blame violence, drug use, and other bad things on hip hop music. ... Some examples of these lyrics will show you how these pioneers of rap music aren't all about gangs, violence, and other things stereotypes bring to all hip hop artists, even though they have been through it all. ...

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I have always loved hip-hop music and now I love the music and style of dance at the same time. ... I can never get bored with it because there is always room to improve and new music to connect with. ... Each school would have a specific theme in music, costume and style of dance. ... Each school had their own selection of music. ... Egg had seen many music videos with people breaking, mc hammer, old school hip hop and thought, "Wow it's good!" ...

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