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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This is shown in the song Target Audience' in which he states, I'm sorry I saw a priest being beaten, and I made a wish.... As the media tried to blame the murders on the music however in Eminem's song The Way I Am' he argues back by saying and they blame it on Marilyn and heroin. ... taken from his song Kill You (2000). ... s (Niggers with Attitude) song Fuck the Police' (1992). ... This is stated in Tricia Ross' book Black Noise in which she states, The way rap and rap-related violence are discussed in the popular media is fundamentally linked to a larger...

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The vast majority of television programs, rock and rap music, novels, computer software, and all other cultural offerings, however, fail to turn a profit. ... These resources take the form of persons writers, actors, singers, and so on and the scripts, scenes, songs, and other symbolic forms they create. ...

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Eminem, a highly respected white rapper, grew up in poverty in a black community. ... However, his successes were not only based off his skills as a rapper, but credit his success to his race and to his record label's intended audience: the white consumer. ... This turns rappers and those who are true to the original culture of Hip-hop from prophets to profits. ... For example, in the documentary "Blacking Up: Hip Hop's remix of race and identity", rapper Vanilla Ice reveals that everything about his career was staged in order to become marketable towards the mainstream a...

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In his essay, "Cool Like Me," Donnell Alexander uses several different literary devices to prove his claim that African Americans embody all that "cool" entails, inherently. With many instances of descriptive language, narrative techniques, and structural devices, he compares the coolness of himsel...

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Adolescence can be a difficult time, even under the best of circumstances. Adolescents and young adults are engaged in discovering their own identity while also trying to "fit in" with their peer groups, classmates, and coworkers. The forces that shape these developmental processes have grown increasingly more complex and contradictory in the age of the Internet. Young people are exposed to more media influence than at any time in history, and media messages can and do have significant effects on fashion trends and popular fads among young people. The very nature of peer communicatio...

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