The Hip-Hop culture is a heavy part of our youth's generation. It's very widespread and an influence to them greatly. Things that are said through hip-hop are a young persons dream. The hip-hop culture is an instant route to take to live the considered "good life" to our young people. A lot of the young people today want to be in the shoes of a hip-hop star and its culture.
Hip-Hop does a great deal of things that gets our youth going and sometimes inspire them to do wrong. Whatever you name, hip-hop is there representing it. However, hip-hops most deadly form is its rap music. A lot of it is taken in by suburban whites and urban blacks too. Rap is stories that are told for people to hear about, and are experiences that happened in life by a rapper. The music, along with the rap videos that have a disturbing mix of rap, hip-hop dance moves, fashion and lyrics, leave people wondering: is hip-hop culture harming our youth?.
To me, hip-hop is an open statement; it can be taken in good of bad. Some people use hip-hop to boost their confidence to try to become something in life. Others might think it's a misuse of the culture of hip-hop that attacks women and encourages violence. I read in Jet Magazine, that No Limit Records CEO and rapper Master P apologetically admitted that some of his lyrics might be offensive to women. "Everything that comes from me like that, comes out of ignorance. I hope to edit myself in the future." However, he stated as truth that, "I don't believe any of entertainment is harming our youth. It is up to parents to raise their own children and teach them: blaming entertainment as their scapegoat.".
In Jet Magazine, Dr. Delores Tucker, chair of the National Political Congress of Black Women, Inc, who has been a strong critic of hip-hop culture for more than a decade, continues to cite its reported negative influence over our youth. "Glorification of pornography, wanting disregard for civil authority, misogynistic disrespect of women and a penchant for violence are the unintended impact of hip-hops culture on today's youth" said Dr.
