... they drive and how many women they've had sex with. Rappers talk about drugs and guns in their songs with regular frequency. Fortunately, not all rap songs are about guns, drugs and sex. Lose Yourself is a rap song by the artist Eminem about taking advantage of every given opportunity and treating said opportunity as if it is the chance of a lifetime. The ... face of opportunity, it comes from seizing opportunity. Henry Hartman, an acclaimed artist, said, "Success is where preparation meets opportunity". Lose Yourself relays the same sentiment in the form of a rap song. The message of L...

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... see on T.V. and online. As a result of this upcoming teens are seeing is a dominating "rap" culture. For example Nicki Minaj's song 'Anaconda' which hit huge success in the charts. Signed to the dominating rap record label 'YMCMB' she is the flagship in delivering rap to their largest audience young youths. As a result of this the younger generation are growing up ... the ability to change the meanings of words. Though usually used as a hate word or as a means of insult the "Rap" community has changed the word "n*gger" from a derogatory term to a term of endearment. In Drakes ...

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... messages of sex and violence into the minds of young adults leaving behind their sexist and repetitive influential messages. Music has a very powerful influence on our emotions, moods, and behavior. Rap music influences teenagers negatively by increasing violent attitudes and promoting sexual aggression against women. Very few people would argue the power of music. Mothers use it to rock their babies ... of their association with the black culture. This argument of racism is ridiculous. Clapton's song is about a gun that discharges in a case of self-defense, while Ice-T's song relates t...

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... actually cause a person to become violent? One theory is with the more accepting and open society in which we now live, rap artists are deliberately singing songs about controversial issues to draw in more listeners. Rappers are "glamorizing" violence and children are unknowingly ... an important factor in the developing identity of a child. Rappers are creating a violent alternate world with their musical lyrics. For example, song lyrics from rap artist Jay-Z, "Ya"ll nervous knowin" them guns on full service, ready to fire. One body, two body, three body, ... four- I"m above the law!" L...

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... beats that other artist will in fact remake or remix them. In some cases they will just use the beats of a song and not the words or chorus at all. This happens a lot in the Hip-Hop or Rap genre where artist such as Doctor Dre, Snoop Dogg, R Kelly, P.Diddy, and Eminem have used the beats to a ... popular 80's song as the beats to a number one rap hit. P.Diddy AKA Puff Daddy was very successful in the early ninety's doing this with such songs as Been Around The World, You Can Hate Me ... Us Down. All of these were top hits for him and all of these also sampled beats from previous songs....

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... songs he would play or write. When he is happy he would write a funny or happy song and when he is sad he would write a song to express his bitterness about the subject. Rap or Hip Hop has its roots within African culture and tradition. (http://www.daveyd.com/raphist ... 1.html0 ) Rap has evolved from simple stories to poetry with a beat. But now we see rap evolving into a more negative ... aspect. Rappers have caused listeners to be more superficial. They have degraded themselves into walking advertisements from cars, alcohol, and clothing wear. "I said give me two pair (cause) I need ...

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... white rapper to succeed in what was originally known as a black mans world. Eminem music style is not that of what we know as "Gangsta Rap" but that of lyrical rhymes and life stories told in a beat. Eminem did emerge as the first white rapper to make it big, but his ... the most well-known gangsta rap groups talking about life on the street and crime. Once gangsta rap emerged more and more people started rapping about police brutality and killing people, and with that crime rose to high levels. Causing much controversy over the lyrics and music genre. Another song we can view is that .....

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... he turned was a different door being shut in his face. A man with such a disturbing childhood, with no one to reach out to deserves his opportunity to rap to the youth of the world, the life that he had to struggle through, and the message behind his lyrics and success. Eminems goal in life was to ... songs do show some compassion, and love towards things. Off of the Slim Shady LP, the song "Just The Two Of Us" is a rap that he sings to his daughter, telling her how much he loves her. He begins his rap with: "Baby your da-da loves you and I'ma always be here for you no matter ... joki...

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... way or convince them to do things that would be considered wrong in today's society. The youth in today's society have a language all of their own. Rap music has a tendency to bring new and inappropriate words or phrases to the mouths of our children, pre-teens, and even teenagers. The beats to these ... her up and put her in the trunk, cause if she suffocates she'll suffer more and then she'll die too." This quote is from a song called Stan, in which a wild fan murders himself and his pregnant girlfriend after Eminem does not respond to his letters. On both of his albums he screams ......

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Stan by Eminem The music video "Stan", by rap artist Eminem, depicts a story of an obsessive fan named Stan who becomes increasingly irate that Slim Shady (Eminem) is not replying to his letters. Stan gets more and ... bad for Stan. The music of the video has a slow tempo with a soft percussion beat and an awesome bass line. The beginning of the song starts with a sweet melancholy sigh of a female rap artist named Dido followed by Eminem reading the letter of a fan who idolizes Slim Shady and does not understand why he has not heard back from ... sees a distraught young man getting more and ...

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... sometimes inspire them to do wrong. Whatever you name, hip-hop is there representing it. However, hip-hops most deadly form is its rap music. A lot of it is taken in by suburban whites and urban blacks too. Rap is stories that are told for people to hear about, and are experiences that happened in life by a rapper. The music, along with ... the rap videos that have a disturbing mix of rap, hip-hop dance moves, fashion and lyrics, leave people wondering: is hip-hop culture harming our youth? To me, hip-hop is an open statement; it can be taken in ... leave out the degrading of women an...

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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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... 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 relate to him and the things he is saying are not what white parents want their children to emulate. The Gay Alliance Against Defamation ... , people should just not support him. Although Eminem has admitted that he would not let his own 6-year-old (in 2000) daughter listen to any of his albums, in the song "Who Knew" he also says that parents should not censor music because it is for their kids"...

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