Hip-Hop Culture Harming Our Youth

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

Al Sharpton once said in Jet Magazine that “hip-hop has these rappers that I would label as “well paid slaves.” I love hip-hop, but anytime you act like a slave mentally and degrade women and degrade our race in the name of a record…. I consider you a “well paid slave.” With their money, they buy high priced clothing, cars, and jewelry.” To me, this is setting a bad tone for our youth, showing them that these luxuries are what life is all about. When our youth hears this music and see these hip-hop videos, they see rappers getting girls, poppin’ their guns off, and living in the fattest cribs. It’s all right to have these things, but when our youth sees and hears about these things, then they think that they must have these things to be accepted in life. I think that the hip-hop culture should instill in our youth that they should go to college to support themselves and their families with a good future and help steer others in a positive direction. Some people think that hip-hop isn’t a negative influence on youth. People think that the music is just merely a reflection of the conditions in our communities, which for the most part, have been ignored by the national leadership (p.552, Writing Arguments). Nega

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