‘Increased television and music video viewing are risk factors for the onset of alcohol use in adolescents. Attempts to prevent adolescent alcohol use should address the adverse influences of alcohol use in the media.’(Television and Music Video Exposure and Risk of Adolescent Alcohol Use) Many rappers glorify the use of drug and alcohol use. They rap about smoking weed, popping pills, and drinking forty’s, and the youth of America is paying attention to these lyrics. Is it not bad enough that they rap about such behaviors

that MTV had to give them the privilege of promoting such negative behavior in their videos. Such music or hip hop or rap is not always a danger for a teenager, but if

Pop stars are not guilty for violent videos or lyrics, but yet again rap videos and lyrics are once again in the spot light. It is a sad day when and eleven year old boy from Dayton, Ohio shot and killed his three-year-old sister and wounded his five year old sister, and claiming he was imitating rapper Tupak Shakur.(Sex, Violence, and the Media) Rappers are also known for glorifying the acts of gang banging, murder, and many other extremely acts of behavior. The are proud to throw up their east side or west side signs, and are proud to rap about carrying weapons, and even prouder to rap about using them. Once again they are telling they’re adolescent listeners that wrong is right. Promoting such violent behavior to teenagers on a regular basis can cause the teens to become immune to the horror of violence, gradually accept violence as a way to solve problems, imitate the violence they observe on televisi

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