One controversy is woman and how they are degraded in the lyrics. ... When interviewed on national television, the rapper, 50 cent talked about how he sold drugs to survive in the past. ... Then in the song "Hits from the bong," by Cypress Hill, it describes how to roll and smoke a joint. At the begging of Rapper Master P's album he teaches how to make crack from cocaine. ... This is teaching the children of today that this is how you deal with conflict. ...

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., are few lyrics from the music genre "gangsta rap." ... Not only is the music violent but the rappers lifestyle is also. Many rappers have rap sheets and young people see that and say, "Hey, their rich and money talks." ... All of these rappers criminal records depict their lifestyles. ... Inner City Broadcasting has put a stop to playing hard-core rap and other misogynous and violent rap. ...

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We need to see if rap lyrics are in fact affecting our youth and how rap artists like Will Smith, can be a good role model. ... How will people remember rap 50 years from now? ... How did Tupac and BIG's death effect rap? ... The specific kinds of information that will be collected will be on, if and how Tupac and BIG's deaths affected the way people viewed rap lyrics. ... I can see how much of a good role model Will Smith is with his positive lyrics. ...

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Rap music and all its variations, from gangsta rap to hip-hop, are among the most potent influences of young peoples' perceptions of reality and their resulting behavior. ... Their study of adolescents and the effects of rap music show that the entertainment value of the rapper's lyrics, actions and behavior in rap videos is not objectively but subjectively seen by adolescents, specifically those in the 14 - 18 year old age group. ... Rap music paints an idealized and distorted picture not only of how to address the challenges of life, but also how to attain ones'...

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Marshall Bruce Mathers, aka "Eminem," aka "Slim Shady," broke the barriers of rap, and changed the game of hip hop. ... He did not appeal to one genre, rapped with great controversy, and did so with great success. ... Yet Eminem used his struggle as an advantage, and instead of rapping about his struggles through the hood, Eminem rapped about fighting and making fun of the media. ... Calhoun goes on to talk about how Slim Shady contradicts himself, In the song "Stan", he seems to create an empathetic vision of himself, that of a man who is attempting to console and empathize with a ...

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I have chosen these genres to take a look into their history as well as how it has developed into what we are listening today. ... This type of style became known as rap. ... The first real rap group was The Sugar Gang with their single "Rappers" Delight" in 1979. ... This "Gangster Rap" is what many rap styles are based off of today. ... It had a huge impact on the rap community. ...

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I have chosen these genres to take a look into their history as well as how it has developed into what we are listening today. ... This type of style became known as rap. ... The first real rap group was The Sugar Gang with their single "Rappers" Delight" in 1979. ... This "Gangster Rap" is what many rap styles are based off of today. ... It had a huge impact on the rap community. ...

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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. ... All musicians have a right to say whatever they want in their music, no matter how offending it might be to some people. ...

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Over the years music has become more violent, mostly in rap, and rock and roll. ... An example of how the rap industry has been blamed is a rapper named Ice T. ... Once again the rappers were blamed for the actions of the listeners. ... Tucker fought the rap industry because she believes the rap music today glamorizes black on black crime. ... While she was blaming the violence on the rap industry, the rappers themselves spoke out and began to say that they only rapped about what they knew and saw themselves. ...

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Now in the twenty-first century the major focus of censorship is rap, mainly gangster rap. ... Rap/hip-hop accounted for 11.4% of total sales revenue for that year. ... Sexual lyrics in rap are not the only controversial issues at hand. ... Rap music gives a public voice to urban America, and through their music rap artists can paint a picture of what is going on around them, growing up in poverty. ... Ask yourself, how can rap artists be criticized for making music reflecting upon what is going on around them, like drug use, murder, and other violence? ...

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I chose to write about him because he is the best young rapper, and I like how he doesn't care what happens, he just goes with it. ... Marshall first started to get into rap when he was 14. ... Marshall felt that his rapping career was starting to take off. ... Also, in 1998, he took second place in the Rap Olympics. ... The song tells about how he feels towards certain things. ...

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The movie was very entertaining and it was very interesting to see how different things were about 30 years ago and also to understand how the music I listened to growing up even came to be. ... Rapper and producer of hip hop music Dr. ... (Toop and Fulton) There is no limit on how far violent lyrics can be. ... Rappers such as Dr. ... (Goldstein) The media succeeded in changing the way society viewed gangster rap despite the fact that the rappers were only bringing up real topics that affected real people in the minority. ...

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Surprisingly enough, with all its flaws rap and hip-hop forms of music are at its peak. ... The question here is how do these artists make so much money and receive all this fame through bad lyrics and explicit sexual themes? ... As my title suggests the type of language used in some of the rap songs, "Its Bling Bling Biatch". Bling Bling, a slang used for diamonds and biatch is how women are denoted in songs. ... Lil" Kim a female hip-hop singer launched her single "How many licks" that speaks about masturbation, sex and alcohol. ...

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This is an attempt to distance himself from his discography, current rap music, and anything else that might cause the listener to have preconceived notions of how the album should sound. ... Lyricism within the rap genre cannot be merely judged by superficial features such as delivery or phonetic spectacles. Something must be said about the emotion behind the lyrics, and how they fit within the context of the artist's life or purpose for the music. ... An effect of this pride is that it only emphasizes how imperfect Kanye West is, and with how many times it's acknowledged on the ...

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The Detroit rapper, known as Eminem, has stolen the hearts and ears of a generation. ... With their rational, Eminem tells a story about how a teenager drives off a bridge; children will obviously start driving off bridges. ... Marshall Mather's success has not been because of how he raps, that he is white, or by his explicit use of the English language. ... He raps about being bullied, experimenting with drugs, and girlfriend/marital problems. ... Eminem, however, is the first white rapper to use those lyrics, successfully. ...

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His message is to show the world the life he grew up in, and how it has shaped him to be who he is today. ... He began writing rap at the age of 14. ... This has led to them writing poetry and ultimately writing raps. ... Kendrick Lamar would rap about the things he saw growing up in the hood. ... This is not a rap on how I'm slinging crack or move cocaine. ...

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In 2000, the controversial lyrics of a white rapper named Eminem's second album, " The Marshall Mathers LP" became very publicized. Among other things, he rapped about his drug addict mother, hating women, killing his girlfriend, being homophobic, and influencing children. ... He also claims that he would never actually do the things that he raps about, but that his lyrics are simply therapeutic to him. Eminem claims that the main reason the public does not like what he has to say is because he is white, which means suburban white kids who enjoy rap will automatically feel like they can ...

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They are a hip-hop and R&B station that plays nearly every Rap and R&B group. ... Hot 103.3 Jamz is the only station in Kansas City that plays only rap and R&B. ... Dre, two nationally known rap music artists. ... Then as he got more experience and a better knowledge of how things worked, he finally was put in as one of the six full time DJ's. ...

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An androgynous figure dressed al in black, he says " there is no real difference between artists and killers- and describes how the group's album, smells like children, is "about abuse of all sorts."" ... In September 1995, Warner music group bowed to public pressure and announced it was severing its 50% stake in Interscope records; home to Nine inch nails and controversial rap artists Snoop Doggy Dog and Dr. ... Rap artists simply turned to a different distribution of network and their CDs continue to hit the stores with lyrics, which glorify guns, rape and murder. ...

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The rapper known as Tupac Shakur,was born in 1971 in Bronx, NY. ... Tupac also began writing his rap lyrics here. Rap and music inspired Tupac but may have also been his downfall. ... How he saw it, what he thought and what he felt about it. ... This also began Tupac's dictatorship of the "rap game" as most rappers call it. ...

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"No matter how successful you are with your work, you are not developmentally complete until you are capable of Intimacy" said Erikson. ... Theorists in biological perspectives who study behavioral genomics consider how genes affect behavior. ... When looking at certain individuals personalities, It makes us wonder "how do people become the adults they are today?" ... When looking at the life of a very well known and highly controversial Caucasian rapper Marshall Mathers you can see how and why he has become the man he is today. ... Eminem knew he wanted to be a rapper since he was a little ki...

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"Welcome to Death Row" is a thought-provoking documentary that tells the story of how a dangerous and popular record label changed the music industry, and how it all came falling apart. ... My favorite part of the entire film was the part where it talked about Tupac Shakur because not only is he my topic but I feel that he is by far the most influential rap artist. ... You don't even have to be a big rap fan to enjoy it. ... In the song Keep Ya Head Up, Tupac is saying that no matter how bad the situation we must always keep out head up and don't let things keep us down. And the ...

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How can two hundred million people worldwide be wrong? Fifty million Americans are illegally file-sharing billions of songs on the Internet daily. Consequently, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) blames the ten percent decline in record sales due to those downloads. Nevertheless, t...

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Dre, a celebrity rapper and sound engineer, pop idol and "media gangsta " and Jimmy lovine of Interscope Records. ... It is very rare to find headphones or audio equipment in general to be advertised like how Beats have been advertised. ... Recently, people who listen to the most famous songs of rap and pop and has also seen their videos must have noticed the glamorous Beats by Dr. ... So basically, you are paying to advertise a brand name product and this is how the world of marking works. ...

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But how does it get there, you do not go into a store and pick on off the shelf. ... A large part of how someone turns out is due to the family. ... Kids grow up seeing their parents and how they act, or not seeing their parents at all. ... Nature and identity also characterize how the person acts. ... Will they be "neat freaks" or will they not care how they live in their houses. ...

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