Rap Music Bad Influence On Kids?

[MarukuAntoni]

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sorry for leaving useless posts. i shall leave my argument now. children are able to take in information and it seems to come to them easily. just like with learning a language, after some time of hearing words being spoken to them they pick it up. how much more when they hear the lyrics related to violence, sex, money, etc. their minds are still developing so whatever enters their brains tend to stick. it is ridiculous how many kids are cursing these days. although rap music may not be the cause of it all, it does play a role. children emulate what hear regardless of whether its bad or good.

[masterhickle]

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To me letting yourself be influenced by medial things is what the problem is. I mean, if people are going to say that certain things influence people, then they must realize that MUCH OF MEDIA IS INFLUENTIAL. Now, if you listen to a rap song that talks about selling drugs and getting girls pregnant at a young age, or if you play a video game where you sell drugs and rob cars for money, who's to say they don't influence people? Saying rap music influences people is just as vague as saying video games influence people. Magazines influence girls to be abnormally skinny, and that is what causes many females to develop anorexia. Men's magazines influence the use of steroids and other drugs to bulk up.

Being so easily influenced by the media is the problem, people begin to lose sight of what reality is and they begin to think, "Hey, if the guy in the song does it, i could, too".

Anyways, no i don't think music influences MOST people. However the question is about kids, and i think that because of their age their minds are much easier influenced, and so i think some music can be bad for kids. But as you get older you should begin to realize that music shouldn't influence your LIFE (moods, maybe, but use your head and you can't go wrong).

Yes.

A lot of people feel the need to be what the media says they should be, and that is the true problem. How easily someone can be swayed from reality to media's reality is the problem. (Redundant post?)

[solopro]

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I think rap in general is repetitive, uncreative, shallow, and lacks the substance of most other music. Most themes are based on killing people, losing your girlfriend, knocking up your girlfriend, fighting with your girlfriend, doing drugs, and doing bad things to the community. It is the worst kind of music, it is hardly an art, and does not do justice to people with a creative ear. Additionally, the rap music here on FFR is absolutely horrible and should be removed on those grounds alone. If the music isn't bad enough, the steps are subpar to the rest of the songs out there. Please admins, do something about the poor selection you are providing in the rap/hip hop section.

I'm 13, and I highly agree with this opinon.

Rap is...well, let me put it in forum terms.

Rap=fail.

I absolutely hate today's rap, but the stuff in the past, like in the 90s and such (remember The Sugarhill Gang, NWA, and Run DMC?) has some meaning.

Today, sexual content gets to teens and screws them up.

Stay like me, stick to the classics and find alternatives.

[g4z33b0]

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Guido - Paul Wall, Eminem to an extent.

Some rap music is good, but listening to songs about killing people doesn't make me want to kill people. The stereotypes perpetuated by the majority of todays rappers are bad though.

[Pippin667]

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Is rap music a bad influence on kids these days? I, personally, disagree with that, I wouldn't listen/do what the lyrics say in those songs. Of course most rap songs have some "bad" lyrics but I don't think most kids would necessarily do what they say.

Discuss.

yes

[-paexaea-]

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Tupac would be a great example of a setting a good example. He shares his hardships with society about how he's hit rock bottom and tried to show people there -is- a light at the end of the tunnel. That you -dont- have to start smoking weed, drink, get prostitutes.

I mean, I don't listen to rap, but that's my perspective on it.

Is rap music a bad influence? Yes, to an extent.

[kylehaas]

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I don't even count rap, hip-hop, or R&B as music.
I completely dispise all of them.
I think that people who listen to them are as shallow as can be,
because that music is TOTALLY immoral.

Rap is a terrible influence on the teenage mind nowadays...
Thank you for ruining society, rap music. I hate you.

[xWnLx Crisco]

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Wow
So Ni**ers With Attitude has some meaning that doesn't influence anything bad on the african american community of those times?

I might want to rethink that.

I'm 13, and I highly agree with this opinon.

Rap is...well, let me put it in forum terms.

Rap=fail.

I absolutely hate today's rap, but the stuff in the past, like in the 90s and such (remember The Sugarhill Gang, NWA, and Run DMC?) has some meaning.

Today, sexual content gets to teens and screws them up.

Stay like me, stick to the classics and find alternatives.

[Wlfwnd91]

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Guido, why are so many useless posts being made?

Anyway, the question here is not whether you consider hip hop/rap/R&B a form of music. It's not whether you like it or not, and frankly no one here gives a rat's ass. I agree with Maruku, that it is a lot like a language for younger kids, because what they hear is what the emulate. They hear people swearing 24/7 they start to swear if they hear people talking about drive-bys and smackin their hos then they'll try and get involved with both. But, as always it all comes right down to the parents. Yes, much of the rap industry is despicable (Not all, because there is some I like) and shouldn't even be published, because the sad fact of the matter is that most rappers sit and try to write lyrics that's appealing to white, suburban middle school kids who want to be hard-core. You do have some like Eminem whose goal is far from young children, since he does have a daughter of his own and understands the effect music and lyrics can have on kids, he wouldn't let his own daughter listen to that bullcrap. Yes, rap is a bad influence, but parents are a worse influence.

[jewpinthethird]

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You know as well as I do that no good parent can completely shelter their child from the world. If they try they're criticized for not showing their child the real world. Parents can do as much as they can, but they cannot completely prevent the effects of exposure to something that's so prevalent in our culture (especially black culture). Friends, radio, television, movies, all those things glorify rapper life, and listenting to the music or watching the videos is not something as concrete as doing heroin or smoking or something that the parents can set the kid on the right path and reasonably expect that he stays there. No, it's just listening to music, which seems harmless to a teenage kid.

I'm not saying "don't expose your children to rap music." I'm just saying that in the argument of "rap music is a bad influence" can easily be remedied by parents investing a little time to educate their children that the "rapper lifestyle" is unrealistic and morally wrong and not to by into that crap.

[kylehaas]

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I understand what you are saying Jewpin, but personally,
I would never let my kids listen to that stuff...

[archbishopjabber]

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If you allow the contents of a song to effect your behavior dramatically then you are weak minded and most likely have many other issues. If anything rap music is an opportunity to sort out kids who have a sheep mentality and those who can think for themselves.

[devonin]

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If you allow the contents of a song to effect your behavior dramatically then you are weak minded and most likely have many other issues. If anything rap music is an opportunity to sort out kids who have a sheep mentality and those who can think for themselves.

Glad to see another proponant of the "The best method of ensuring the positive growth of humanity is just to remove all the warning labels from things, and let it sort itself out" theory.

I think in general the answer to "Is rap music a bad influence" for me anyway is to say:

Rap music, if it influences you, seems to me to generally communicate a negative message that would define the influence as "bad" but I would rather hope instead that people are capable of listening to it, and actually saying "Wow, the lifestyle of doing drugs, screwing hoes, and breaking laws doesn't sound very appealing to me" and either listen to the music if they enjoy it, or just stop.

[GuidoHunter]

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Rap music, if it influences you, seems to me to generally communicate a negative message that would define the influence as "bad"

That's the thing. Too many people don't see it as bad at all. And it's not so much acting out rap songs as it is emulation of those who sing it (which, in turn, often means acting out the songs, but the rationalization is completely different).

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[devonin]

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Well as I said, that is how -I- define it. I'd like to think that others are able to think critically about this stuff, but time and again that gets proven wrong.

Rap music influences me a great deal, it influences me to go "That lifestyle is absurd, self-destructive and contrbutes greatly to the negative connotation that is then applied to the entire culture"