... the minds of young listeners everywhere. During the 80's, punk bands began to take over the music scene. The media then directed the blame towards the new artists. In 1988, rap was invented. The media also changed their views on who to blame. They broadcast several stories on the news, on how new age music was affecting the lives of the ... next generation. Soon blame was put on the African American rap artists, believing that they were poisoning today's youth. Rap music was becoming known as a bleak way for someone to express themselves, labeling rap as the newest rebel music. People w...

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... Under Siege 3). Most of the early problems with censorship were in the early 1950's. The 90's are the most controversial decade dealing with the censorship of music. The rap group "2 Live Crew" was the target for the censorship bureau in the time. The groups lyrics weren't as violent, but more explicit. The album "Me So ... Horny" was illegal to sale in couple of states like Alabama and Florida. In the 90's rap music was taking all the heat for music censorship. Rappers such as Ice-T, Public Enemy, and N.W.A. were getting the majority of the heat in the hip-hop ... Don't get me wrong I"...

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... dressing and mimicking the actions of these idols. There have been numerous stories flooding the news about teenagers committing suicide or hate crimes due to certain song lyrics among the rap and rock genres. Many rappers do not serve as good role models for the children that listen to their music. For example, Tupac Shakur, who was sentenced to jail for ... days for the failed attempt of hitting a man with a baseball bat during a concert, or Ice Cube, who killed a man at a bowling alley, these two men are very popular among the rap community and countless children look up to them as i...

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... made up some stupid excuse, saying movies and singers provoked their children. In my opinion, I listen to all sorts of music especially rap, but I never act upon the lyrics. Before I turned twenty-one I drank alcohol. In a lot of the rap songs they always talk about drinking and that sort of stuff. But I drank because I wanted to, I liked it and we were kids ... that loved to party. Our group never was caught but if we were to, would we blame it on a rap video we saw? No way, it's unbelieveable how irresponsible some people are. If a kid does act upon a movie or music video then they ha...

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... to do that. The media and the movies are not the only things that seem to give people the wrong impression. The music business is something that always gets a bad rap. A lot of the music out is about people's real life, or something they feel like they have to create a fantasy world because their life is or was really bad. Gangsta ... rap is the genera of music that catches the most flack about how violent it is. The things that these songs are about are real life to these people and how ... they still live. Most rap music is about the problems is urban environments. There is not much ...

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... despite rating systems that are supposed to discourage sales to minors, Ms. Rosen said simply, "we don't do that."" Music also expresses a culture that otherwise has glorified guns and violence. Rap has produced a whole crop of young people who probably never heard of Al Capone or John Dillinger but who still think meanness and being a gangster is cool. Music is created ... make a statement to others who don't belong, to an older generation "to insult, to place blame, as the early protest songs did "and sometimes to threaten, as many rap songs do. All messages have a target; all message...

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... beating each other up. Popular music has lost the element of fun which it always had before. One great example of how music has changed so greatly is in the rap by the artist Eminem titled Words are Weapons. In the song Eminem sings of how, "My words are weapons, I use them to crush my opponents, I never show no emotion- (Mathers ... ...

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... not since that has already been the case in more than one instance, but why? Is music capable of driving someone to kill? Could the lyrics of a rock band or rap group really give a person all the elements needed to step over the edge, past the point of rational thinking and give total disregard for social values and human life How ... ...

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... hips during his time of fame, now though he is considered a revolutionary figure in music. Elvis" gyrating hips gave off the same message of sexual interest as the now popular rap artist Juvenile. Simply because people are being more direct in what they are discussing over mass media dose not change what it means....

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... this time. Even though strong profanity in song lyrics can be traced as far back as the 1960s, it first became a major controversy in the 1980s, with the introduction of rap and heavy metal music. Many parents were concerned that these two forms of music were corrupting their children's minds with their lyrics which often had overt violent, sexual, and occult ... ...

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... violence among teenagers in schools. Sadly, most students listen to the same exact music and the same artists repeatedly. It is safe to say that most adolescents listen either to rap or rock. If so many are listening to this music that affects your behavior, why are so little people having outbursts? If looked at in a different perspective, most teens listen ... ...

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