Question:
Recently my friend read an article in a magazine about people who listen to rap are more likely to do drugs and other bad things. Now, my friend is really smart and she listens to rap so I want to know what you think. My friend will be writing a complaint to the magazine. Please tell me if you think the magazine is right, wrong, or you are not sure.

Choices:
Yes, I think the magazine is right
No, I think the magazine is wrong
I think the magazine might be right and wrong
I decline to answer

 

i think it is bad bcuz more women these days r gettn raped malested and more kids are getting influenced to doing drugs but they jst wnt to do wht the rappers are doing

yea but alot of people have to have something bad happen to them before they change for the better

he was also arrested for assault. but whatevvvaaaaaaaaaa i don't really care about ppl's records when it comes to music... this was just me giving a fact that i had heard reccently.

ti's new alblum Paper Trail actually isn't so bad if you listen to the lyrics, all he's doing is talking about changing his life for the better,.
so i don't think that rap is such a bad influence it's more of what you take away from the lyrics of the rap.

Duh! Of course! Rap music has such a huuuuuge influence on young teens today beacuse its such a universal thing that has been in the media for a long time.

raekwon the chef taught me what made good storytelling

no i do not i think that is a bunch of crap the way people make it seem so bad... only dum people actually do what the music says and those people shouldnt be allowed to sten to it anyway...

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Originally posted by Wolfie:
people who do bad things and drugs generally listen to rap.

That is NOT true!!! There are plenty of crackheads, tweakers, drunks, wife-beaters, and child molesters who listen to country on the AM radio in their doublewide!! It is not fair to exclude them from the crime statistics!

not all rap is bad. Some of the underground stuff talks about reaching dreams or doing the best for yourself. Don't lump in a few bad rappers with the ones who don't rap about stuff that is messed up.
Also, don't forget, people in this country are given their freedom of speech and we are not allowed to take that away from them. If people DECIDE to act on what rap songs suggest, that is on them. They acted on it, therefore they are responsible.
Now, most rappers come from bad neighborhoods and rap about what they dealt with daily, and most who listen to rap relate to those situations. That might be the reason why people who listen to songs about drugs, probably do drugs because they can relate to that.

people who do bad things and drugs generally listen to rap.

as i'm sure some of you might know i think rap is boderline retard and could be made by a two year old.

plus it is deragotory towards women.

I really don't think the music is to blame for drug use and other "bad things" I think that the most dominant demographic of rap, is made up of low and working class people who live in bad neighborhoods.
In other words, many listeners are predisposed to do drugs and commit crimes. It is up to them and their authority figures to ensure that does not happen.

Young listeners- that's a different story. Kids from 9-15 can DEFINITELY be influenced by the music they listen to, but the music should not be censored. If someone were to take responsibility for these kids and make sure they have better role models than 'hard-core gangstas' it wouldn't be such a problem.

If the artists themselves were to decide to present a better image, then fine, but they cannot be forced to censor themselves.


LOL- I just read this back and I got way off topic- oh well, I don't care. ;P

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"If hard rock was mainstream, would we blame rap or hard rock?


One needs only to look at the '70s and '80s to see the answer to that question. The phrase isn't "sex, drugs, and rap".

The more you know, the less you don't know. "

Firstly hard rock and heavy metal went mainstream in the 80's. secondly they dont need to be phrased it already happens regardless. and to get back on topic everyone is influenced by the music they listen to some people have stronger wills/morales than others.

Everyone is their own individual, and it is unfair to judge all rappers, or people who listen to rap, together.

And rap does not influence people to take drugs or have sex, it just so happens that the promiscuous drug-addicts listen to rap because it the new voice of the people. Just as rock was in the 70s and 80s.

I think people who listen to rap are stupid. They say that 'it is there own choice to do drugs' well statistics show that people who listen to rap are more likely to take drugs. have mutiple partners, take alcohool and go to parties at a early age. Take the dip gangster wannabes at my school who think there so awsome listening to there stupid music and go around picking fights smoking weed at school, getting detentions, wagging schools. Look at our cities in America like LA. The Crappiest parts, have all been influenced by rap and all that other crappy music and have a heavy crime rate, with drugs, prostitution, gang violince etc. Any way my point is rap sucks all it is, is some guy in a studio talking about crap he doesnt even know about and some fake drum beat and pressing repeat. There are no Solos no real instruments just dumb loops. Heavy Metal ftw

I think it just really depends on the song and artist. It's not the type of music, you can't generalize and say that all rap is bad.

It depends on what the rapper is saying in his rap and if the person listening to the song is a smart -knows the song is for listening to and is purposed for dancing- person.

Rappers are really talented people. I read somewhere that the reallly good ones can rattle off more than 600 words a minute. So they talk fast. What is wrong with that? All forms of music have had songs where the lyrics were deemed inappropriate. But there is clean rap, just as there is clean country, rock, hip-hop, or any other form of music.

quote:

If hard rock was mainstream, would we blame rap or hard rock?

One needs only to look at the '70s and '80s to see the answer to that question. The phrase isn't "sex, drugs, and rap".

Rap and hip-hop are completely different things.
For the average American, rap refers to 50-Cent, recent Snoop Dogg and blahblahblah.
They're examples of rap and rap alone.
If you live the hip hop life you'd be familiar with underground MCs that have lived the life rap talks about and often speaks against it. Even so, mainstream rap has pulled many of these rappers out of the streets and out of the gang life. Looking at the music alone, people don't consider this.

Either way, all music genres have their flaws. Rap may be attacked because it's mainstream right now and so if violence goes up it's automatically connected with the mainstream music that often has violence in it. If hard rock was mainstream, would we blame rap or hard rock?