Effects of Rap on Today’s Youth.

I became aware of this topic because I listen to rap music. I own 20 rap CD’s. I became concerned about rap lyrics bad influence when Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG were murdered in the middle of the 1990’s. Will Smith is also my favorite rap artist, because he does not use profanity and violence in his lyrics. According to Smith, “Good rap does not have to be vulgar” (qtd. in “Fresh Prince” 17A). I am also interested in learning the effects of unclean rap lyrics on today’s youth.

There needs to be further investigation on this, because this important subject seems to have some how faded over the past five to ten years. According to Terry Teachout, “the actual content of rap, nobody talks about it much anymore-it seems far, far longer then seven years ago that Bill Clinton made political hay by attacking S

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