... abuse, psychiatric disorders, suicide risks, sex-role stereotyping, or risk taking behaviors during adolescence." [1] "Forty-seven percent (47%) of mothers with children in public schools believe that violent messages in rap and rock music contribute " a great deal" to school violence "[2]. And "sixty-six percent (66%) of 13-17 year olds believe that violence in music is partly responsible for violent crimes ... , revenge, shooting and death. Teenagers, who listen to heavy metal or rock music, are attracted because they can connect the lyrics of these songs with their own troubled feelin...

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... hands, seizures, convulsions, nausea, and vomiting. Most overdoses cause in a complete heart stop and the majority of the time it can be fatal. Codeine is very popular in American rap sub-culture. A rap artist from Compton, CA drinks lean every single day in place of drinking coffee. A DJ from Houston, Texas died from an overdose of promethazine and sleep apnea. A supporter of ... DJ and his popularizing drug, named Big Moe is just another of the many causalities that this arising drug has caused. Another rapper that also died was Pimp C from the rap group UGK. Sizzurp is increasingly d...

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... The Los Angeles Times on the Web, notes that the Medellin cartel began to be portrayed throughout various forms of entertainment (Pastranda). Many films and rap artist productions capitalize on the story of Pablo Escobar, but despite his horrific actions, the majority of the time he is given an alluring appeal ... to distinguish the underlying motif of the horrors of drugs and violence in these movies. Another example of his influence in entertainment is in Mafioso rap, where artists portray issues like drugs and violence firsthand, though they never experienced these issues; they use the...

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... and more celebrities are being caught using or in possession of drugs. Singers such as Whitney Huston, Snoop Dog, and Dr. Dre are known to be users of drugs. The rap industry talks a lot about the use of drugs. Songs are even named after drugs like marijuana. These songs are almost acting like a advertisement. When teens constantly sing the songs that ... not old at all, the late 60's exposed a new type of culture which had recreational use of drugs, and today it is mostly seen in the music industry especially among rap artists. The media has exposed the use of drugs and gone against wh...

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... murder of law enforcement officials (Everett 47). What is the difference between the two songs? I don't think that the fact that Clapton was primarily a blues artist while Body Count was a rap-metal fusion was the big issue. What it really comes down to is Clapton was white and Ice-T was black (the other members of Body Count, who were primarily white ... ...

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... creative when they use marijuana. Science backs this theory because marijuana increases the brains alpha waves: alpha waves are generally associated with creativity. Great musicians (from all genera, not just rap) use marijuana to make their musicsuch as musicians like Tom Petty, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, James Brown this list could keep going. American presidents have used it. Presidents like ... ...

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... becoming very cynical of the criminal justice system. A famous African American rapper, Tu-Pac Shecure, shows the way he feels about how the war on drugs targets minorities through his rap,we have a war on drugs so the police can bother me." This is the belief of many minorities that are filling the prisons across the country for drug offenses. Explaining ... ...

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... 91).5 Today there are far more people in federal prison for marijuana crimes than for violent crimes. More people are incarcerated in the nation's prisons for marijuana than manslaughter or rap (Schlosser 92).5 Attempts to reduce dangerous prison overcrowding have been disadvantaged by the nation's drug law. Across the country prisons are filled with nonviolent fenders who mandatory minimum sentences do ... ...

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... ways are by publicizing more about this drug, and what will be the outcome in the future of the intake of drugs, and try to influence certain people such as a rap artist, so that they might be able to influence a whole network of people to stop taking this drug. ...

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