... NEGATIVELY INFLUENCE YOUNG LISTENER"S BEHAVIOR? MICHELLE MACK The infamous rap artist, Tupac Shakur has a song entitled, "Bury Me a G," off his album, "Thugs Life, Volume 1". One collection of lyrics in this song states: "I got nothen to lose sos I choose to be a killer/ Went from bangin" to slangin"/ Now I"m a dope dealer/ All my a payed the price to be the loss/Back in school/ ... . He frequently listened to gangster rap groups such as Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and Tupac Shakur. This music persuaded him to kill 4 students and 1 teacher, and wound 10 others at his school on March 24, 1998 (...

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... the world's problems will remain. A parallel can be drawn between the music of Manson and that of rappers. First, what does society see wrong with rap music? Sex is one concern. American society is petrified by any issue regarding sex and children, so a child listening to music that speaks of sex is ... directly influence(ie. shoot). It is true that many rappers are involved with illegal activities, gang-related and otherwise. Is this because they rap? Of course not. Rappers rap about their lives. Their lives directly shape the music they make. Whether or not they rapped, they would sti...

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... on an ode to the woman who raised him; he omits a reality check on the self indulgent narrator (118)." White continues, "Absolution is the secret song to the song's success, but by ignoring his mothers" failure, Tupac also avoids understanding her complexity Yet it wilts when it could have soared by leading to a hard ... hear this message. Finally, Tupac proposes means for change. Taking a part of the song simply to talk and say that it's time for people to unite. This adds a power to the song that could only be done by breaking from the rap and "telling it how it is." Now I will show you...

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... of friends experience drug use, gang violence, and the life of a black family living in Compton on welfare. The storyline of the album starts off with the song, "Sherane a.k.a. Master Splinter's Daughter". Kendrick Lamar's character meets a girl who has a cousin that is known for his gang violence; he uses the ... that he was beat up by the gang. To cheer him up, the let him freestyle rap in the car and his frustration is heard towards the world with a very aggressive tone in his voice. The next song, "The Art of Peer Pressure" is exactly what the title says it should ... group being cha...

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... songs, with evangelical hymns This failed, but the negro spiritual was born; which were folk songs as "composition[s] performed with religious expression." (Locke 21). Spirituals were an interesting type of song; because it was the first time slave songs were uniform all over America, (the same spirituals used in South Carolina were used in Mississippi). In the 1800s, an event occurred ... was not only music but also an entire subculture of the African American youth. It gave the youth an outlet to express their views on current issues, especially in politics. Rap and Hip-Hop also solid...

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... by the editors of VIBE) Tupac outshine in his dramatic performances, he was a great poet, and he began to have a passion for rapping. His first rap was about a friend that he lost to a gun. He was an extremely talented actor, he starred in five box office movies, which were all filmed in ... could Tupac watch his mother crumble to something that was created to destroy us, after she perceived as a revolutionary activity for the good of their communities. In Tupac's song "Dear Mama", he says "And even though you were a crack fiend, Mama you always was a Black Queen" (CD: Me against the Wor...

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... nationalist seeds in their first album in the piece "Rightstarter, " their second album invoked the religious and political black nationalism of the NOI. It was nation-conscious rap. This fusion of rap and Black Nationalist political organization promoted the nationalist sentiment but also provided a distinguishable practice of communitarian responsibility. (Henderson, 9) PE, backed by Farrakhan, brought thousands of ... young blacks to the political philosophy of nationalism. For example, in their song "Party for Your Right to Fight" they transform the title of the party song of the Be...

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... not just a genre of music but also a complex system of ideas values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film and fashion (quote). This contemporary art form utilizes some of the black community's most pervasive weapons; aggressive imagery, music and the art of storytelling. Here we will ... with mainstream Americas' sensational view of itself nor its overall political agenda. That which is artistically excellent in this case also proves politically and morally troubling (Perry, 2...

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... sometimes shown that black ladies that come to church without tights are looked at and talked about rudely at church. Black people are portrayed to listen to rap music and gospel music more often than anything else. The media stereotypes blacks as people are not open to any other genres of music. We are shown ... other cultures are shown to really love. According to Media, When black people listen to rap music it has to be played to the loudest volume and have the most curse words and disrespectful terms included in the song for them to like it. When describing how we listen to gospel mu...

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... hip hop, and alternative. Creating the generation of anger. In the 1990's when Nirvana released their second record "Nevermind", they broke with the song Smells Like Teen Spirit and changed everything. The grunge movement was the movement of anger, rage and distortion. Kurt Cobain was the true leader of this ... movement and made a generation of kids who were able to finally find a way to express their angst, through this music. Hip hop and rap were birthed in the 90's by groups and people like the Wu Tang Clan, Biggie smalls, Tupac, and snoop dogg. Along with Female rappers like ... the...

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... and how it all started one person comes to mind as the man who put it all together. Tupac Shakur was not only a rapper, He took rap music to a whole new level and would talk about issues that reflected off him and his family. He was raised in a home that was involved in the Black Panther which ... what was so influential about him. He never let one of his situations break him police would do something to him it wouldn't make him mad he would just make a song about what happened and continue with his life....

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... You While there is 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 ... 't mad at cha."17 These lyrics create another scenario of disrespect and affirmation. While most argue that songs that refer to women as bitches are disrespectful in its entirety, this song begs to differ. African American women, since slavery have be...

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... imaging of the Black Woman "Bend over to the front, touch your toes, bounce that ass up and down and get low!- blasts the latest rap song that seems to get a substantial amount of airtime. This particular song instructs a woman on how to perform an erotic strip tease. These lyrics are a small fragment of the images conveyed of Black women to audiences domestically ... ...

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... it has with the African American culture until now? It's a bit hard to imagine someone with a larger world-view to agree that cool is necessarily a slave song that is now the basis of a popular rap song. Alexander's point on cool as described in current pop-culture in America, however, is pretty indisputable. He may not get as much credit as he deserves though ... ...

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... derogatory names. Many females use these images as their role models not knowing that they were created by many sexiest and racist views. For example, many young women choose female rap artists like Lil" Kim and Foxy Brown as there role models. These two artists are berated for their outward expressions of assertive female sexuality. The pictures of black women in ... racial, gender and sexual stereotypes. It is odd that a black man can make an entire album talking about sex and society approves of it, but let a black female make one song on it and she is a "ho." Double standards are to...

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