A male rapper would not be "true to the game" without his cars. ... Through songs, male rap-recording artists talk about their cars and show off their money and thus are stereotyped to be the types of people who "run this way" (Kilo). ... Also, most homes include a studio in which artists design their songs and record them. ... Their money also stereotypes male rap-recording artists. Through songs and television they show and tell their money and how they use it. ...

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The first real rap group was The Sugar Gang with their single "Rappers" Delight" in 1979. This song was a major influence on many rappers of a later time. The next breakthrough song was "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five. ... This "Gangster Rap" is what many rap styles are based off of today. ... In 1988, the group, Public Enemy had released the song "It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us Back" and N.W.A came out with the song "Straight Outta Compton" that introduced Ice Cube and Dr. ...

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The first real rap group was The Sugar Gang with their single "Rappers" Delight" in 1979. This song was a major influence on many rappers of a later time. The next breakthrough song was "The Message" by Grandmaster Flash and Furious Five. ... This "Gangster Rap" is what many rap styles are based off of today. ... In 1988, the group, Public Enemy had released the song "It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us Back" and N.W.A came out with the song "Straight Outta Compton" that introduced Ice Cube and Dr. ...

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But of course there are many other types of music aside from rap and rock. ... Unlike the rap and rock videos, this video corresponds to the storyline of the song. ... "Pink's" video of the song "Family Portrait" is meant to be sad as the song is sad. ... Rock bands focus on themselves, rap songs try to make themselves look rich and important. Sad songs tend to have a video following the storyline of the song. ...

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These are just a few of the very many risqué lyrics to today's most popular songs amongst teenagers. ... In addition to the pop stars of today, the rappers in the media also display women as just merely objects. ... Women in rap videos have been depicted very disapprovingly for many years. One rap video in particular shows women as simply sex objects. The video is "Hot in Herre,"" by the rap artist Nelly. ...

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These groups argue that the lyrics in many rap songs degrade women by calling them bitches, hoes, and tricks. ... Further proof that rap artists are selling an image and not real life is that many rap artists are happily married men with wives and children that they truly care about. ... Songs such as Bitchez [sic] ain't Shit and Bridget in which women are referred to as hoes do not really represent how Dr. Dre and many other rap artists feel about women. ... Rap music has no real influence on the image America has of women. ...

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Rap artist Ice Cube says, "They"re pioneers. Run-DMC made rap emerge out of hip-hop to be the signature art." ... This is displayed when Andre 3000, member of the Grammy award winning group Outkast, raps on the song "Elevators." ... The judgment of his own soul changes in each of his songs. ... (In his song "Vica Versa" everything he says is suppose to mean the opposite.) ...

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Combined with the songs" melodies and lyrics, music videos along with the images of artists in pop culture today are powerful tools that can tattoo human minds and shape the attitudes of many. With this in mind, this paper will analyze the potential affects that the rap video, "Beautiful" can have on society. (Used to illustrate the song lyrics of Snoop Dogg, a rapper whose lyrics are usually sexually explicit and violent). ... Now that rap music is mainstream, music video producers target demographic are teenagers to young adults. ... For example, men who see flawless women in music videos...

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Obviously, it's always been a major challenge for anyone to find a direct link between the lyrics of any song and virtually anyone's behavior, whether good or bad. ... Another point raised is that references to the song "12- by the group Insane Clown Posse were also made in a letter attributed to Eric Harris. The music of Marilyn Manson is believed partly responsible for the December 12, 1996 suicide death of Richard Kuntz a Burlington, North Dakota teenager who was listening to Manson's "The Reflecting God- at the time of his death, a song his friends say he was always playi...

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Songs make common graphic references to sex, drugs and violence, unlike the past where sensitive issues were cleverly veiled. ... Teenagers, who listen to heavy metal or rock music, are attracted because they can connect the lyrics of these songs with their own troubled feelings. "Gangsta rap" music is another type of music that has been very influential over the years. ... Studies have shown that exposure to rap music "tends to lead to a higher degree of acceptance of the use of violence... "[4] We can also see in the media that some rap artists are being arrested for violent crimes in re...

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Many of the song lyrics condone sex and violence making it appealing to the youth. ... They have to dress like them, try and sing the lyrics to songs and dance. ... Right now some of the most popular music is rap, for example P Diddy and Busta Rhymes. ...

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Music is very powerful and there are numerous events in today's news about teenagers attempting suicide or trying to kill other people and blaming it on song lyrics. Psychologists don't only blame the song lyrics but the artists themselves also. ... For example, a very popular rapper today is Eminem. In his songs he expresses very clearly the hatred he has for his mother and his ex-wife. ...

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For example, in one song, titled "I"m Just A Kid", the band discusses how a boy in his teens wakes up early to hang out with his friends one weekend only to discover he hasn't any. ... Another example is in the song, "Addicted", in which a boy tries to gain forgiveness from his recent ex-girlfriend and plead his case in that he doesn't deserve the breakup, mostly because he misses her and feels awful for driving her to break up with him. ... It's almost like poetry the way that they rhyme it, and yet it's soft enough, and slow enough to be better than that awful rap which...

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