Anxious kids waited outside in the 100% humidity, and their patience began growing thin. ... The kids had been fans of Marylin Manson, a very controversial artist who sang about killing and hatred. Immediately, people began pointing to him as an influence, along with a movie that was similar to what the boys did. ... Everyone knows that teenagers are very impressionable, and when a popular song talks about violence, many kids listen. ... Also, while Teenagers often end up alienating themselves from their parents because they seem so different, kids can often relate themselves to music arti...

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It could be felt when he sang that he really reached to all his listeners and tried to teach them and influence them. ... Mexican, White, Black, Asian, Indian, and even Pakistani people are all known to listen to his music and are influenced and moved by it. ... "To me its really troubling because I look over what's successful - Marky Mark, Hammer, Vanilla Ice, New Kids on the Block selling twenty-two million copies, and I want that so badly, but I cant do that. ... (Tupac) Tupac influenced most of the people that listened to his music. ... He has also influenced many future and pres...

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Rap music or as critics call it "Gangasta" rap could have a bad influence on you and your society. ... Afrika Bambaataa influence on rap's development is pivotal. ... He turned out 36 songs in this short period, which resulted in "Power Of A Dollar," an unreleased masterpiece that Blaze Magazine judged a classic. 50's stick up kid anthem "How to Rob" blew through the roof and playfully painted him as a deliriously hungry up-and-comer daydreaming of robbing famous rappers. ...

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Perhaps even more importantly, American Rap music was highly influenced by Jamaican music. ... Today hip-hop is a billion dollar a year industry, with influences in many different areas of the consumer market with the most highly targeted groups of consumers being Caucasian American suburban teens. ...

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This particular part of the film shows how the people that hold power and influence can turn something like freedom of expression, something legal and innocent, into something immoral and even illegal. ... In Ronin Ro's Gangsta it states, "Before NWA's Straight outta Compton album, hip hop acts tried to steer youth in a more positive directions: Groups like Boogie Down Productions and Public Enemy told them to "stop eating beef" there were songs like Stop the Violence, which urged kids to coexist in peace" (Straight Outta Compton). ... If music does play an import...

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According to a recent edition of Webster's Dictionary, hip-hop is "the popular subculture of usually black urban youth, especially as characterized by rap music" (313). Furthermore, it defines rap as "a kind of popular music marked by the rhythmical intoning of rhymed verses to an insistent beat" (Webster's Dictionary, 547). It is amazing to see how far this fairly new genre of music has grown and developed, from its humble beginnings in the south Bronx to its widespread popularity today. During its thirty years of existence, the rap industry has continually changed, morphing its...

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Tupac Amaru Shaker: A Study to Determine Whether He is Alive or Dead I am what I would consider an average teenager involved in school, sports, and friends, but another extremely important aspect of a teenager's life today is music. Like most male teenagers of today, I am completely inf...

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