The article I read was The Impact of Rap and Hip-Hop
Music On American Youth written by an author who goes by abkoobthoj on www.teenink.com
This article goes on to
focus on more on the negatives aspects of rap and how teenagers will listen to
everything they hear. The writer hits on the age old concepts of most rap just
being fouled mouth, misogynistic, death endorsing music. As well as giving
studies in which he didn't site about how a group of teens listened to hip hop
music about sex ( most likely R & B) which is full of sex filled music, and
in turn they then thought about sex in the way any hormonal teenager would
perceive sex to be only showing this study to be inaccurate. He also talks
about how these rap songs influence teenagers to use slang and in become
unintelligent because they don't always use full sentences. He ends it by
stating that he mentioned pros and cons but the whole article shot down rap
music as a genre. I can understand how in some cases rap music can be degrading
to women and give off some preconceived notions about sex to those who know
nothing about it. However I have been listening to rap since I was little and
rap has never influenced my views of women and sex. I have grown up in areas
that some of these rappers talked about filled with drugs, robbery, and death
and where I disagree is that rap has that big of an influence on youths who
follow this lifestyle because if you were born and raised to do these things
then how much will music actually influence. As for the slang teenagers are not
as stupid as the writer makes them out to be and using slang has been around
for decades so in all using slang doesn't make you anymore or less intelligent. So in all rap will not lead you down the wrong path in life what will are those people around you who will lead you into that lifestyle.
