DOES RAP MUSIC NEGATIVELY INFLUENCE YOUNG LISTENER"S.
The infamous rap artist, Tupac Shakur has a song entitled, "Bury Me a G," off his.
album, "Thugs Life, Volume 1". One collection of lyrics in this song states: "I got nothen.
to lose sos I choose to be a killer/ Went from bangin" to slangin"/ Now I"m a dope dealer/.
All my a payed the price to be the loss/Back in school/ Wrote the rules on gettin" tossed/.
Popping rocks on the block was a past time/ Pack a 9 all the time" (qtd. in Pelley 3). .
What are these rap lyrics encouraging young people to do? They cause them to do.
negative things resulting in aggressive behavior. It encourages young people to be.
gangsters, curse, fight, and kill people. It promotes sex, violence, and drug and alcohol.
use and abuse. It even degrades women, and speaks of violent crimes towards them. Rap.
music promotes violent and hostile behavior in young listeners.
Some people argue that rap music provides valuable information to young.
listeners. They feel that it tells the story of the black man's struggle. Some also feel that.
it describes life in the eyes of a black person. Venise Berry says that, "as a product of the.
black urban community, rap music is indisputably entangled with the struggle for black.
identity and legitimacy within mainstream society" (615). She feels that it indeed.
describes black culture. Rapper Mack 10 defends his violent lyrics by saying that his.
music is:110 percent the truth If I talk about 10 people getting killed in my.
neighborhood, that's because it happened.Why can't I speak freely about it? John.
Wayne is a hero, and in every movie he was in, he had a gun on his hip and shot people.
(Clark, 5).Rap music does occasionally tell what is really happening in the black ghetto.
cities, and it informs its listeners about things to watch out for in the streets. .
Juan Williams says "where women are treated like sex slaves and ideas like.
"materialism and God" are put forth, they are not true visions of black America or black.