N.C. State has a study that connects hip hop music to sexism but says that blaming the music is going too far. What are your thoughts?
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Is hip hop music to blame?
Is hip-hop to Blame?
Submitted by Visitor (not verified) on February 28, 2008 - 1:56pm.
I agree with Mr. Jones. No matter how much you would like to deny it, the music (beats and lyrics) factor in a young persons psyche. The whole "wear your pants below your butt" started with rapper Easy E and NWA group, back in the mid 90's, and it is still prevelant today. However, I think there are more negative behaviors related to violence than sex. With the "thug appeal" and "gangsta life" these musicians supposedly live by, thier followers try to emulate this in trying to be perceived as being cool. Hence, the problems we have with gangs in society today. Whether you are a muscian, an athlete, or an actor/tress, etc... you have people who idolize you and take every word you speak as the gospel no matter if it is humane or not. I teach at a high school here in Raleigh and in between classes, you can hear students singing the words from the last hip hop, chart topping hit. However, these same kids that learned the lyrics are the same that couldn't remember subject/verb agreement, Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, Washington was the first President, South American is beneath North America, etc.... Priorties???????
when people said the same thing about Elvis The Pelvis...
and if you look at what happened when THAT generation took over business and government, I, um.... wait a minute......
we're doomed.
plusaf
Northwest Raleigh
27613
Is Hip-Hop to Blame ??
I do believe to a certain extent, some of the blame for the negative behaviours by males particularly among males can be blamed on the hip hop genre. The negative influences (images, visuals, lyrics) are hammered into the minds and psyches of young folk, many of them unsophisticated and not intelligent enough to realize that it is just a song ultimately.....that this is fantasy and not real life......and that they did not have the right to treat anyone in an inhuman and demeaning way. There are obviously other stressors and life's factors which also contribute.
I am a black man native to NC and a juvenile officer and former music teacher in an urban high school.