... effects of good clean lyrics that Will Smith uses, compared to the vulgar and violent lyrics of past rap artists such as Tupac Shakur and Chris Wallace a.k.a. Notorious BIG. I became aware of this topic because I listen to rap music. I own 20 rap CD's. I became concerned about rap lyrics bad influence when Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG were murdered in the middle of the 1990's. Will ... percent of the buying force. Those older styles of music like jazz and classical constitute a mere 5.9 percent of the music market (Considine 76). Rap music reaches a lot of impressionable young minds. Vi...

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... study were chosen to participate. Participants were surveyed and asked how many hours a day and how many days a week they might listen to rap music, and the number of hours per week they watched music videos. The type of rap music i.e. gangster rap, hip-hip, male or female lyricists was also evaluated. Of the 522 participants, 92.2 percent completed 12 month assessments. Their viewing and listening ... habits were stable during the 12 months, and researchers found that those who were unemployed and under less parental supervision showed a greater exposure to rap music (The Brown Univers...

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... behavior whereas a counterculture develops its own set of rules. Ordinarily, pop culture breaks barriers and springs from discontent; rap music emerged from the ghettos where life is tough (1991). Rap music certainly falls into the category of popular culture but has quite a bit of significance. In fact, rap music or hip-hop, is a genre that originated in the seventies in New York City (Columbia, 1993). The ... of the Jewish community, entities such as KRS-One, Public Enemy and Queen Latifah sprang up; each stressing the betterment of blacks (1997). The very beginnings of rap held music...

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... school and among peers, the government should produce new regulations to involve the parents on what kind of music their children are listening to. Rap Music and Youth's Behavior Gangsta' Rap and its violence Music has always had a tremendous affect on cultures and societies around the world. It affects how people dance ... , speak, and even the styles of clothing that are worn. As rap music has emerged from ghettos, it too has played an extremely important role in the lives of American youth today. Large numbers of "parental- ... parental concerns because of their violent ethics. Paren...

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... good clean lyrics that Will Smith uses, compared to the vulgar and violent lyrics of past rap artists such as Tupac Shakur and Chris Wallace a.k.a. Notorious BIG. I became aware of this topic because I listen to rap music. I own 20 rap CD's. I became concerned about rap lyrics bad influence when Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG were murdered in the middle of the 1990 ... the buying force. Those older styles of music like jazz and classical constitute a mere 5.9 percent of the music market (Considine 76). Rap music reaches a lot of impressionable young minds. Violence in rap music is very ...

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... to perpetuate the acceptance of the use of violence and an anti-education mind-set. He thinks that this kind of music should have some regulation. He refers to rap music being like nicotine- it is addictive; it is mood Hawkins 7 altering and it is available with some strains (Raspberry, "Does" A27). A person has to be 18 years old to buy ... an appetite that America has for vulgarity, violence and anarchy inside Afro America" (Sims 3). Kevin Powell, a writer for Vibe magazine, believes that rap music is a legitimate art form, but thinks that the genre has gone too far and the music ind...

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... dress, and instead truly believe that what they see on TV or hear on the radio is one hundred percent truth. While Kurt Cobain and Nirvana's music is categorized as heavy metal or grunge, Gangster Rap has also been receiving a lot of negative press. The cultural majority in America is up in arms over the rising levels of violence and horrific images ... Weekly News felt obligated to speak out on behalf of African Americans. He describes how rap music was initially developed to stop violence and keep the peace between gang members. In his opinion it is because of "racist Whites and Euro ...

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... good clean lyrics that Will Smith uses, compared to the vulgar and violent lyrics of past rap artists such as Tupac Shakur and Chris Wallace a.k.a. Notorious BIG. I became aware of this topic because I listen to rap music. I own 20 rap CD's. I became concerned about rap lyrics bad influence when Tupac Shakur and Notorious BIG were murdered in the middle of the 1990 ... the buying force. Those older styles of music like jazz and classical constitute a mere 5.9 percent of the music market (Considine 76). Rap music reaches a lot of impressionable young minds. Violence in rap music is very ...

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... in passing the knowledge on. "Yaw'll are being invited and welcomed into a culture that came from a certain people, The History of Hip Hop Rap music originated as a cross-cultural product. Most of its important early practitioners-including Kool Herc, D.J. Hollywood, and Afrika Bambaataa-were either first- or second ... and inspired protests from a number of organizations, including the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). However, attempts to censor gangsta rap only served to publicize the music and make it more attractive to both black and white youths. NWA became a platform for laun...

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... Africans (although for hundreds of years, Africans were not really counted as citizens). (Cooper, 569-573) Therefore, it follows that the music in America was greatly influenced by her European contemporaries, namely England and Germany. European composers came here bringing their technical skills, traditions, ... X took over from there. One of the greatest musical forms to come from and be influenced by Black Nationalism is hip-hop (rap) music. It has fostered a profound nationalism in black youth. It is a conduit for African-American culture to a greater extent even than ... national...

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... , and disk jockeys mixing records and playing with turntables, helped to create what we now call Rap music. " Hip Hop, like Jazz and the Blues, is the music of the oppressed-,The blues is a ramification of the feeling of disenfranchised blacks after the civil war. This music helped troubled African Americans deal with their conflicts by airing the situations out. Hip hop itself, arose ... most emerging genres, has had a difficult time gaining mainstream exposure. It is often marginalzied by mainstream radio stations that are otherwise comfortable with Alternative music. Both Alternative ...

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... If that were the case, she said, gospel music would have saved the world(2)." She understood that her son's music, while often condoning violence and urban destitution, was music that people could empathize with and relate to. Gangster rap, often termed gangsta rap has maintained a bad rap since its beginning. Newsweek columnist Johnnie L. Roberts offers a solid explanation. "Gangsta rap, which chronicles the bleak, often violent life of ... it emerged in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Much of the controversy has centered on violent lyrics. And the music industry, insisting that it is ...

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... , and they remain optimistic about finding his killer. Jam Master Jay, along with Joe "Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, was apart of the rap group Run DMC for nearly twenty years. This disc jockey made music that the world adored. "His scratching and mixing exhibitions on songs such as Jam Master Jay, Sucker MCs and Peter Piper (which Missy Elliott uses ... Ice Cube says, "They"re pioneers. Run-DMC made rap emerge out of hip-hop to be the signature art." Fellow hip-hop legend Big Daddy Kane concurred, "Run-DMC definitely made me feel rap was here to stay" (Reid, MTV 1). Once know...

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... Baltimore High School for the Performing Arts. This school is what started Tupac in his love of poetry as well as music. Tupac also began writing his rap lyrics here. Rap and music inspired Tupac but may have also been his downfall. This is how he ultimately became the Tupac Shakur that was, is ... said he would amount to nothing, wrong. From the first day he was alive he has had the cards stacked against him and now through music and rap he was beginning to rise from the ashes. Shakur got a gig with Digital Underground. Not a well known group at the time, but soon ... film "Juice." Juice...

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... things people feel to be influential or wrong for certain people to see or hear. Many different groups fight and argue to impose more censorship on music, television shows, movies, and anything that children might encounter. When censorship is placed on the media, it totally changes it and can ruin the message ... , but both had major drug problems. Eric Clapton had a song called cocaine, and had a bad cocaine habit, but I never heard anyone criticize his music and say that it encourages drug use. Jimi Hendrix died of an overdose of drugs, but still he is considered one the best guitar p...

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... no disagreement within the African American community in regards to the treatment of women of color by mainstream media, it is divided on the issue of rap lyrics and the treatment of African American women by rappers. However, it seems that the only people who come to the defense of rappers are ... the young black men who listen to the music and the young women who frequent the videos.5 Joan Morgan, who refers to herself as a Hip-Hop feminist, reveals, "Yeah, sistas are hurt...But ... businesswomen. Many of them strip to pay for school or provide for their families, a custom that is a d...

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