is hip hop destorying the young minds of teens?

Question

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Answer 1

No,actually there's many careers and jobs in hip hop music.Also, there are alot of positive ppl in Hip Hop like,Kanye West.

Answer 2

I agree with "the government is." There's a big difference between hip hop then, and hip hop now.. The mainstream wouldn't be a good comparison to real hip hop where artists spoke about meaningful things.. besides the "cash, money, ho's" fad which I don't think will ever end at this point.. Most artists have put it in lyrics one time or another. Pac has a song called "Letter to the President" and he's spoken of many of the plagues of society.. If only more hip hop artists spoke freely about politics (Like Kanye's comment on Bush).. I think listening to Common's song "I Used To Love H.E.R" would be a good answer to your question.. What's on the radio, for the most part, is what turns people away. I *hate* the radio..

Answer 3

The "degraded music of the youth" has been "destroying the minds on the young" since pre-Biblical times. Your parents thought your music was bad for you, as did their parents and their parents before them! If you take a quick look at history, you'll see that there is clear evidence over the centuries that the angry music of youth has been a constant, so perhaps it is acting as a force of good on the quality of our bathroom plumbing; just look at how much toilet facilities have improved! LOL

Listen to some hip hop a little less judgementally. Some of it is great, great music. All popular music consists of 75% junk and 25% worth saving. The reason people tend to believe "new music" is bad, is because time has filtered out and cast aside the 75% that was junk from their "own" youth's music.

Answer 4

No, the government is
Keeping the poor down in the slums, while the rich get richer. Anyone in those dyer circumstances would do what they need in order to survive, especially if they know no other way or aren't taught the necessary skills, or given the steps to succeed in life. The government has always been screwing with people since we first began immigrating and brought over on ships as cargo. From one ethnic group to the next, its not about the interest in the people of this country. If it were, there would be much more reform. Look at Canada, they don't have our problems, why can't the U.S. get it right? Because it is the way it is because it serves THEM.

Answer 5

As a classically trained pianist and professional musician, who has played everything from pop to rock to metal to jazz to country to hip hop to dance to trance to prog, and whose first love is jazz:

I would be hard put to assign any one genre of music as responsible for destroying the minds of young people. Music, at its worst, is merely a reflection and product of a cultural ethos that already exists. It's a mirror, not a cause. But it is also a powerfully invasive, influential mirror, and cannot be simply dismissed as a passive thing, either.

Yes, lyrical content of most hip hop has proven a powerful reinforcement for the degrading and destruction of most teens to embrace and aspire to anything more than bling and sex.

However, you have to also take a hard look at most modern metal, as well as the ethos of bubblegum pop, and ask the very same question.

What artists are regularly, deliberately pushing the minds of their audience to consider higher ideals? Larger concepts? Complex arguments?

Now, one song about "ya gotta keep keepin' on" does not a validation make. At least, not a validation of an entire catalog of songs about "doin' it" or "you want me" or "why don't you want me anymore".

That, I think, is the tragedy of popular music. Music has the power and the latent ability to lift the spirit and mind of man to the highest heights. Human culture has seen this again and again - Beethoven's 9th....Bach's Art of Fugue...Coltrane's Love Supreme...John Newton's Amazing Grace...

But so much commercial and popular music instead looks only to the wallet as its raison d'etre.

As a man who has devoted my life to music, I know the power that musicians hold in their hands. But as one wag once wrote, "Any fool can pull a trigger..."

Answer 6

No. A substandard public education system and a devil-may-care attitude toward the education and proper socialization of today's youth is destroying the minds of teens. Hip-hop is among the least of society's problems.

Answer 7

No, I think its the way a teen was raised. If a teenager is raised right he/she can listen to any type of hip-hop and it will not affect the mind!

Answer 8

No. I think it's more like "young minds of teens destroying hip-hop"

Answer 9

truthfully, that's a no longer user-friendly one. Now alot of youngsters and childrens are finding into authentic hip-hop. distinctive preppy human beings i understand like Immortal technique and that they've self assurance in his politics. extra opt to be interior the revolution. some human beings, basically choose crap to bounce to and to alleviate the stress of their minds. some are, some are not open minded. plenty choose the previous college lower back. the hot college basically shot hip-hop, then raped her.

Answer 10

No - if anything is destroying the young mind of teens, it is the lack of parental supervision. Latchkey kids, two careerist parents, uncaring parents. Parents decide how they raise their children, and what they listen to and watch (since children are at home the majority of their life).
Columbine never would have happened if the parents had just stopped at some point and said "What are you guys doing?"