DOES RAP MUSIC NEVATIVELY INFLUENCE YOUNG LISTENERS BEHAVIOR

The infamous rap artist, Tupac Shakur has a song entitled, “Bury Me a G,” off his

album, “Thugs Life, Volume 1”. One collection of lyrics in this song states: “I got nothen

to lose sos I choose to be a killer/ Went from bangin’ to slangin’/ Now I’m a dope dealer/

All my a payed the price to be the loss/Back in school/ Wrote the rules on gettin’ tossed/

Popping rocks on the block was a past time/ Pack a 9 all the time” (qtd. in Pelley 3).

What are these rap lyrics encouraging young people to do? They cause them to do

negative things resulting in aggressive behavior. It encourages young people to be

gangsters, curse, fight, and kill people. It promotes sex, violence, and drug and alcohol

use and abuse. It even degrades women, and speaks of violent crimes towards them. Rap

music promotes violent and hostile behavior in young listeners.

Some people argue that rap music provides valuable information to young

listeners. They feel that it tells the story of the black man’s struggle. Some also feel that

it describes life in the eyes of a black person. Venise Berry says that, “as a product of the

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