... and Adolescent Behavior Letter 2003). No longer are rock stars the ones that young people look up to. Rather they have been replaced by young hip-hop stars and rappers who drive fast cars, wear expensive jewelry, date beautiful women, and fight amongst themselves to see who can come out on top ... desensitization can occur that makes these behaviors seem normal. Rap music started in the early 1980's and it is a musical style the came from the hip-hop culture of the streets. Mainly showing up in New York, rapping was simply the rhyming of words and lines over a beat. At first it was ......

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... zines, being in bands, creating websites, making art... The law grudgingly gives women equality, but people's attitudes towards us are still disrespectful, oppressive and belittling. " Similarly, in the world of hip-hop and rap music, artists such as rapper, Lil Kim, used her feminine charms to dominate against men as a figure not to be messed with, rather than alongside them, as a male ... possession " something which is heavily publicized in male rap and hip-hop music, expressing females to be nothing more than objects with no other use than looking good. Being so successful in her ow...

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... the current crop of MTV-pushed artists. Imagine straight-edge bands dominating the Billboard charts! Woah! It boggles the mind. But hey, weirder things have happened. Mr. T had a hit record. 6) Hip-Hop reverts to its previous state of awareness and excellence. Now, this is a totally opinionated judgement call, so feel free to disagree - but when P. Diddy "invented the remix" he basically killed ... everything positive about hip-hop in the early 90s. Public Enemy, Arrested Development, De la Soul, Leaders of the New School... you name it, these bands either self-destructed or became pass...

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... was similar to what the boys did. After these horrific acts, the controversy about violent music skyrocketed. However, the controversy goes clear back. Remember when parents said that Elvis's provocative hip movements would corrupt the youth in the 60's? And let us not forget Tipper Gore who made music companies agree to put parental advisory labels on CDs that had mature ... a positive or negative effect on them? In the examples listed above, it is no doubt that music did have a factor in the events. With the recent uprising of rap and hip-hop music, violence in songs has become someth...

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