Shortly there after, everyone else followed suit, with the angry, explicit rap music still booming in their ears. ... With the recent uprising of rap and hip-hop music, violence in songs has become something that the public just accepts. ... Everyone knows that teenagers are very impressionable, and when a popular song talks about violence, many kids listen. ... On his newest album, Eminem raps about killing his wife and single-handedly taking down his enemies with an AK47 while standing atop the Eiffel tower. ... I can't think of anyone that hasn't been really touched by a so...

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Pop combines rap beats with delicate harmonic rhythms to produce a totally different sound yet maintaining pop as the biggest influence on the songs. ... Rap began in late 1980s and still lives on. ... Rap suffers from the same problem rock and roll did. ... Very few white rappers have been able to overcome the barriers of rap and had success in it. ... The biggest problem with rap is its glorification of violence. ...

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People who disagree with a message in a song either reject it and never let it touch their CD player again or create a twisted definition of the song that fits their beliefs, which no one can dispute. ... All children attributed the theme of the song to pride in the USA, the singer's birthplace. ... The professors asked a group of high school students to identify the lyrical themes of their favorite songs. Of the 662 songs the students listed, the students said that only 46 of them were about sex, violence, or Satanism. ... The correlation between rap and gang activity or heavy metal a...

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