What type of bad influences you think rap music have on young black males?

Question

What type of bad influences you think rap music have on young black males? Explain/.

Answer 1

I'm love a lot of hip-hop music. I grew up on fun rap music like Sugar Hill Gang, Slick Rick, and Doug E Fresh. I also grew up socially conscious rap artists like Queen Latifah, Public Enemy, and Rakim. As an adult, I love Nas, and I even like Lil Kim and Foxy Brown--but I'm an adult and I know the difference bewteen fantasy & reality.

As for young black males, the problem is that children are more influenced by their peers and entertainers than parents & adults--add to that the many black males who dont have fathers-- or black males whose moms& dads are on drugs, or are being raised by Grandma. They are already vulnerable and weak to begin with. With youth of today--they are bombarded with sexuallly graphic imaghes all day long. From music on radio by Ludacris telling women to "bend over, touch ya toes", to videos with what looks like a hundred black women grinding like prostitutes in bikinis. Young black males begin to get the "slave mentality": which is that black males (on a plantation) are young "bucks" and "studs" to be breeding with a dozen women--without marriage. Slave Masters actually would make 1 black male slave sleep with 10, 12, 25 black women to produce slave kids. Now, you see how today--Essence Magazine does article showing how many black males have children, and bounce from woman to woman until they're 40 or so. You'll be hard to find a black male past age 25 who doesnt already have kids, even though he's never been married..The music of today focuses so much on sex with multiple people that black men and women have the highest rates of HIV in America, and black teens have the highest rates of STD's. Rappers tell women to bend over, but nobody talks about condoms or catching HIV or herpes--which many celebrties have.

LL Cool J once said "Parents have to raise their own kids" when defending his music. But I wonder how LL is going to feel when his daughter hears "Doing it good" on her way to school, and how he'sll feel when some boy sings that song to her. These rappers have daughters, and I know full well they dont want their precious daughters to be exposed to these videoes & music--but they will because chickens always come home to roost.

Hip-Hop music teaches these boys that black women are bit@ches and hoes that only have 1 purpose: sex. They learn nothing about taking care of the many children they bring into this world from all this sex, nor of stopping the spread of STD's. I know 2 black males who got infected with HIV as teens, and one is still a teen. Its weirds to think he has HIV, but he does. But guess what? He's still out here having sex--I only pray he's using condoms.
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PS. I agree with Koneko who talked about the worship of "thug life". These young guys drop out of school, dont have jobs, wearing white T shirts and their pants down to their knees. They have no concept of a hard days work. And its to the point where I know this 22 year old black guy--his parents are millionares and live in a mansion near celebrities. But yet that kid walks around looking like some boy from the projects with a white T-shirt, baggy pants, and speaking slang like he didnt graduate from high school. He has a baby outside of marriage (surprse, surprise). I guess thing life meant more than being a doctor.

Answer 2

I think this is a good question. I think the problem is that both the Black and White communities defined the young black males by rap music, and it's never the positive rap its always the most negative rap music out there. I can remember hearing a rap song in the 90's by 'TOO SHORT' that simply told young black kids that if you're not a rapper or basketball player you're nothing. Rap is more mainstream now so it not as hardcore as it used to be but most not all but most songs are selfish, negative things, and that's the only thing that young black children are hearing that applies to them. Just my opinion.

Answer 3

The real question is what type of influence do young black males have on rap music? After all, rap is composed mostly of young black male rappers, rapping about their own experiences.

Answer 4

I am a 22 year old white female from Southern Mississippi, however my husband (who is also white) grew up in the projects of New Orleans. He was the only white boy on the block, so his outlook on the world is pretty much the same as theirs. Anyways it took my 5 years to get him to understand that working to support your family was the right thing to do, and just because it was easier it steal, sell drugs, or hustle, that it just wasn't right. And do you know where (at the age of 14) he got the idea to start slinging dope instead of working for a living. You guessed it, a rap song by his fav. artist (whom I won't name because that would be considered slandering) He is only one of many people i know who grew up believing that these songs were "insperational". It is truly sad that these children (because that belive it or not is what teenagers are) have to be exposed to all of this just because some rapers wanna be rich by exploiting young (usually) black males. Honestly though, don't expect it to change. It won't.

Oh, and by the way, my husband since then has been saved, and even though we are currently seperated, he still works, goes to church, and has not been to jail in 3 years. He is a great father, and now he listens to classic rock instead of rap. (with few excep)

Answer 5

Rap music has negative influences in 2 major ways. First, some rappers themselves live on the edge. By that I mean that some of them are criminals and have been arrested on drug charges & gun charges. They are poor role models for teens. Another negative influence is in the lyrics (poetry). I have heard lyrics about fighting, wife beating, drinking, taking drugs, general mistreatment of women,foul language.

Answer 6

Obviously this generation admires the thug life for God knows what reason; too many rappers are rapping about such things (as well as other "admirable" things- money, fame, girls, power). There are rappers that can rap about other things but they're not quite as popular. It's not just young black males- it gives too many young people a thirst for fame and fortune and all things gangsta.

The toughness of gangsta can push kids to comitting crimes or just doing stupid things to seem tough and thug-like. It's entirely stupid. But there are rappers that talk about different things.

Answer 7

listen to the read lyrics. they all tell the story you are trying to look for as far as what is good or what is bad in the lyrics.

Answer 8

it gives them the false notion that it is singing

Answer 9

Definately the way they dress...I dont dress that way

Answer 10

None. DOOD it is just entertainment.