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Is Hip-Hop Killing The Youth? Today we speak, dress and drive what the stars do. Where we shop and eat even the types of homes we buy is dictated by what we "hear"
Hip Hop Culture Assignment for Media with Cultural Studies Level Two Youth Cultures, Subcultures and Industry Hip-Hop Culture This essay aims to examine the importance
began in the mid-1970s in the South Bronx in New York City as a part of hip hop, and African-American and Afro-Caribbean youth culture composed of graffiti, breakdancing,
clowns rapping about little more than the fact that they're rich. Today, mainstream hip-hop is worse than apolitical - it has become a tool to oppress and distract
complex social, cultural, and political issues in contemporary American society." Rap and hip-hop artists write songs that promote the killing of enemies as well
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Today we speak, dress and drive what the stars do. Where we shop and eat even the
types of homes we buy is dictated by what we "hear" the celebrities are doing. That
is a powerful influence over an individual adult but only imagine what type of
influence this has over an impressionable pre-teen. Due to the fact that hip-hop/rap
music appeals to the thirteen to eighteen year old audiences and the artists
performing come from very similar backgrounds of the listeners, rap music is able to
control the way that youth think. Teens and pre-teens are using their part-time job
paycheck to buy grills (a form of jewelry worn in the mouth) and other types of
jewelry.
The "N" word, which once degraded African Americans, has now become an all too
frequent word used amongst the younger generation and not only by African Americans.
Hispanics and Caucasians greet and refer to each other using the word "nigga" as
well. That comes as no surprise that according to 2005's sound scan report states
that suburban pre-teens brought just as much rap music as urban teens. It was
tolerable when rap music affected fashion. It was tolerable when Will Smith put out
his hit record "Parents Just Don't Understand" in 1989 and it was even tolerable
with the introduction of Lil' Bow Wow in 2000. Now, the new generation is taking the
lyrics of rap music more literally.
Without the youth being able to distinguish fantasy from reality rap music has
turned the youth more violent, utterly disrespectful and it is teaching them that
it's acceptable to have multiple babies' mommas, stand on the block and hustle or
even kill someone over a minor disagreement. It's easy to assume that I dislike rap
music but it's quite the opposite. Growing up my mother wouldn't let me listen to
rap because I discovered it in the era it began to...
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