\ Noel Rivera English 102 Prof- McNamara Rap music promotes violence! The violent effect of rap music has been proven time and time again that it not only promotes but encourages violence and unlawfulness to it audience. Rap music in the 20th century has become a part of American culture and its message to the youth is connected with popular yet misguided phrases like “Get rich or die trying”, “Money over Bitches”, “Thug life”, and the most popular, “F**k the police!”. This language in rap music is something that parents need to consider before letting their child listen to their favorite Hip-Hop artist. However, this wasn’t always the case.
Both Dan Gardner’s “The Missing Piece of the Gang-Violence Debate” and Bruce K. Alexander and Stefa Shaler’s “Addiction in Free Markets” see drugs as a social problem. However, while they hold the view that drugs are not the main problem which encourage addiction and bloodshed respectively, Alexander and Shaler focus mainly on dislocation, while Gardner focuses on black market created by outlawing of drugs. Alexander and Shaler center on social dislocation merging into a free-market system which makes individuals insignificant. Gardner argues that drug addiction causes the social problems of urban violence and homicide. While these differences shape the essays’ handling of development and detail, the authors’ main ideas are contradictory.
Society in our world is used to seeing people take legal drugs (like cigarettes or alcohol) because they are allowed to be taken in public places. Illegal drugs, on the other hand, make you an outsider of society (except to drug junkies, who will see you as their best friend).The people in the New World get soma for free because it is, as already mentioned, all ordered and offered by the government. In comparison to that you have to pay for drugs in our world, and most of them have expensive prices that are only affordable to people with enough money. Legal drugs, however, aren’t as expensive as the illegal ones. This has the consequence that many people have to commit crimes and go into prostitution to buy the drugs they depend on.
However, in Nightjohn, it was illegal for African Americans to be able to read or write. That law was made to keep slaves from being educated enough to run away. Though that particular law benefited white people, it was unfair to African Americans. Many people feel that today’s laws are unjust and enforced for wrong reasons, even though today’s laws seem a bit more reasonable. I feel that, within reason, some laws are justifiable to break.
The outcome of being unaware of your actions and actions of others to no memory of what happen when during your intoxication of being powerless leads to “RAPE”. Guys are not always to blame for rape just because they are manly does not mean they force you. It could have been the female victim that led the case to unsafe
Hip hop is consciousness. People rap to be heard, because they want a better life, to get out of poverty and to end injustice. “If you hate hip hop then you obviously don’t understand hip hop, so spit truth in the face of injustice” (Chavis). That is why he believes hip-hop should not be censored and that we should caution away from those who want to take away the first amendment (freedom of speech), or people who do not except reality, people who do not accept “consciousness.” People protest against the bad language, rather than recognizing what the rap represents, which is typically the horrible social situations that these individuals are or were enduring, such as self-destruction, drugs, violence and hopelessness. “I would rather have young people in the studio making rhymes, then on the streets slinging drugs”
This has led me to believe that one's legacy can be better than their personal life. Whether one's personal life is out ruling to their legacy is based on the extent of their legacy and the battle levels of their personal life. Despite the fact that Tupac Shakur was accused of sexual assault, accessory to murder, and placed in jail plenty of times his legacy has and will always live on. Tupac Shakur was titled King of Rap by many as well as the best rapper alive in his lifetime. He spoke to his fans through poetic lyrics about societal problems, reminding them of the troubles out in the world and that something can be done about them.
1. Does hip hop music influence crime? Hip hop music does influence crime; I think it’s a labeling theory because if you say hip hop music drugs, weapons its labeling it as a crime and it can influence children to do such things. Children have imaginations at a young age and this is not something they should be thinking about. 2.
In the quote,” Russel Simon, one of the most successful hip hop producers and promoters in history, has called for an industry wide ban on certain lyrics.” By J-Ro. Judging from this quote, we can see that activist like Russel S. and others are working in passing a law that would restrict rappers from using inappropriate lyrics, and ban words that offend women and African American people. One of the most use words by rappers is the “N” word which tends to offend especially middle or elder African Americans. Also, censorship would help stop the use of cusswords that rappers depend on a lot to make their music. Enforcing restriction to Hi Hop, it would force rappers to come up with better music that would last longer than comparing to today’s music a month or two.
They begin to become less respectful of women because Wayne disrespects women in his music. When Lil Wayne raps about criminal activity and the aspects of the street life he makes it seem like a profitable career. Many young men think selling and using drugs is justifiable because he is shown in his videos having all of the money, power, and girls in the world. A good role model has a good public image. When good role models are in public they are obeying state laws and not doing anything illegal.