Is rap corrupting our society?

Question

Ok so i was walkin down the street in NY and than this 9 year old with a dune rag, baggy pants, a white shirt covering his knees was smoking a ciggarete. He started cursin at me and rephrasing rap songs like get back motha ****a, **** you etc. I ignored him. I believe rap is corrupting our society and it needs to be stopped. it is a bad influence to young kids and teens. Rap is also anti-white music. Rap also treats women like objects an not human beings. Rock is the best music ever. Way better than rap. LONG LIVE ROCK N ROLL!!!

Oh yeah and Rap stands for retards attempting poetry! Some people resent heavy metal and rock because it premotes demonic worship. Only a small percentage does.

Answer 1

No, I don't believe rap/hip hop is corrupting our youth. People always blame the "destruction of today's youth" on the new technology or the new fad of the time. Fifty years ago, it was rock & roll, then came TV and and violent movies, and now the new scapegoats: video games and rap music, neither of which are the sole cause of the corruption of our youth. The "Parental Advisory" labels and ESRB ratings are there for a reason, but the problem is the parents don't pay attention to them. All they know is that Little Johnny wants the latest 50 Cent album, so they get it for him without a second thought (or worse yet, they let him buy it himself). Then when Little Johnny goes on a gun-toting rampage, they blame it on the music he was listening to.

I can't speak for anybody else here, but as for me, I can speak from personal experience. I've been listening to rap/hip hop music since I was a kid, and I turned out just fine (high school and college graduate, married, no kids out of wedlock and no rap sheet). The thing is, my parents actually made the effort to spend time with me and emphasize morals, as well as the difference between fantasy and reality. So nowadays, when a lot of parents don't discipline their kids for fear of their kids hating them or of going to jail, and/or they'd rather let TV, video games, music, etc. babysit their kids, it's no coincidence that the youth gets increasingly more corrupted. In short, the downfall of society is lack of personal responsibility and poor parenting, plain and simple.

Also, your assumptions about rap/hip hop music as a whole are completely incorrect - nothing more than stereotypes and wide-sweeping generalizations. For example, that's like saying "All rock is about is biting the heads off small animals and destroying your instruments on stage," or "All jazz is about is guys with bad hair and a baritone sax making corny elevator music." As fans of either of these genres will tell you, that is certainly not the case. Interestingly enough, I find that most people who say they don't like rap/hip hop and complain about rap's many vices don't realize that they're only seeing one dimension of hip hop. In other words, a lot of people don't know as much about the genre as they think they do. Most people base their opinions on the kind of rap that the mainstream media force feeds us day in and day out. I'm here to tell you that not all rap/hip hop emphasizes materialism, misogyny or is filled with profanity (i.e. - conscious rap, Christian rap, old-school rap, etc.). As a matter of fact, there are a lot of hip hop artists out there who don't fit the "cookie cutter rapper" mold and talk about subjects other than money, sex, drugs and murder. For example:

- Little Brother
- Mos Def
- Talib Kweli
- Common
- De La Soul
- Dead Prez
- The Roots
- Jean Grae
- Five Deez
- Ugly Duckling
- Slum Village...(and plenty more)

Unfortunately, you'll rarely (if ever) find any of them in the mainstream media. A lot of the good hip hop artists have been put on the backburner or are stuck in the underground circuit because they're not what the mainstream masses want right now. The big wigs in corporate America saw that the more negative aspects of the music (materialism, misogyny, violence, etc.) resulted in record sales (a sad reflection of our present society), so they took it and ran with it, shoving it in our faces and filling our ears with it every chance they get. So what do they do next? They condition the masses and flood the market with whatever "trend du jour" makes them the most money as opposed to actual talent, variety and substance (you do realize the term "tastemaker" is used very often in the music industry, right?). That's what the real problem is. There's just no balance in mainstream rap/hip hop anymore. Since the masses only see the negative side, then it's no surprise that a lot of people think all rap/hip hop is negative.

So next time you want to make a point about rap music, it would go over a lot better if you really thought about what you're saying and didn't insult and/or talk down to the people who happen to like it.

Just my two cents.

Answer 2

I don't think rap is corrupting our society. I think it is just a form of music, a form of expression (just like rock and roll) and should be viewed as a form of entertainment ONLY. I think it's the fault of the parents who do not educate their children about what they hear in the songs....they need to have a talk with the young ones and let them know that what they hear in those songs is not the way the world is. Those rappers really don't have all that money and all that jewelry. All of those scantily clad women are not their girlfriends. It's not okay to talk like them or to try and achieve that lifestyle. It's not right to carry guns, to sell drugs, to be a pimp, etc.

It's funny how you make a distinction between SOME rock and roll that has satanic and demonic overtones - not all, but you paint rap music with a broad brush. Not all rap music is anti-white and anti-female. It certainly cannot all be anti-white b/c I see scads of white males and females listening to rap in their cars on a daily basis...singing along with the music and apparently enjoying themselves.

Parents need to step up to the plate and get active in their children's lives. If the children are not mature enough to understand that it's just music, then perhaps the parents should not allow their children to listen to it.

Answer 3

1. What you said about the kid never happened(Or maybe you're the kid).

2. It's Du Rag, not Dune Rag. LOL!

3. Have you heard of Eminem? Rap is not anti-white!

4. A ***** is not an object, it's a female dog.

5. Ho is what Santa Claus says to give you joy.

6. You don't know real conscious rap.

7.Rock Sucks


Thank You For Your Time!!!

Answer 4

That is the parents fault. They don't know how to raise their own kids if they let some type of music do their job. COMMON SENSE. People need to stop talking about how rap music is this and that when they need to be focusing on the real issues. When a white man calls a black women a nappy headed h**, everybody points it at the rap music and that is what everybody is doing, rap has nothing to do with it. People raise your d*** kids. All music has it's good and bad.

Answer 5

I believe you are making way too big of an overall categorization by saying Rap. I used to think the way you do now until i went to college and found out a lot of underground rap groups that doesn't perpetuate being pimps, owning hos, owning a lot of stuff and having money in general.
And no I'm not just talking about rap groups that rap about how poor they are, and how they face social injustice, ultimately leading to the favorite punchline "**** the police".

I'm talking about rap groups that goes on about economic injustice, political injustice. You would never hear a ****** this, ************ that in these songs.

And of course when you say rock, what do you exactly mean? Rock and roll, true Rock and roll is the music of the beatles, the rolling stones, and elvis.
Bands like Linkin park is considered Numetal along with Korn. Metallica and Ozzy is considered metal, while Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails is considered Industrial.
Rock died a long time ago, because they are so family friendly compared to the evolution of Metal, Numetal, Industrial, and of course speed metal that has taken its place, even in the mainstream. Just having a guitar doesn't constitute it as rock.

Anyway, to answer your question, "Is rap corrupting our society?"
No
African American rappers that perpetuate negative stereotypes of their own race and gets rich of it is corrupting our society.

Answer 6

Rap music doesn't corrupt anything, think about it, rap is the biggest market in the music industry!!! and it cant be anti-white because Eminem is one of the more recognizable rappers today.
As for this excuse-for-music called rock and roll, dont get me started, if they're not kissing satans azz, with they're long grease monkey hair, they're screeching down a mic to a bunch of retards called fans

Answer 7

No. Its a reflection of a society that is already corrupt, just like movies. What can you say about the gambino crime family which came to being decades before rap was even there.

What can you say about the shooting in schools by those kids did not even listen to rap, What can you say of the president who does not listen to hip-hop but still grew up to be a trigger happy man,

What can you say of that wrestler who committed suicide and killed wife and kid, he was no rap fan.

What can you say of that NBA ref in the betting scandal, he got the idea from hip-hop. And I am sure the Playboy magazine gets a whole lot of influence from rap

Its just music and its people fantasising, commenting and is no different from the language and behaviour we see in music. No wonder that kid insulted you, he must have been provoked by your lack of common sense.

I dont listen to rock but I have nothing against it

Answer 8

most rap these days, but there was a thing like hard core rap, in that it was not degrading, nor did it have so called "gangsters" telling about things that they have never even experienced, my veiw is that u shouldnt tell about things that u have never even done, and every other word should not be a cruse word, music should set an example for todays generation of kids, it should not say that its okay to go around and "pop" people in the face, this all coming from a kid and a musician.

Answer 9

Wow, you are really ignorant. I don't see how music is destroying our society that sounds really stupid. Most likely, The kid doesn't have any good parental guidance, and lives in a bad neighborhoods. Rap is not anti-white music (70% of rap sales come from white people), if it is please give me some lyrics. You're judging rap off of mainstream crap, there are plenty of rappers who doesn't talk about that stuff (common, talib kweli, 2pac, lupe fiasco, ll cool j etc.) I wish people like you would stop spending so much time bitching about how much rap sucks and how its destroying are society (which ignorance at its purest). If you don't like it, don't listen to it, plain and simple.

You seem to get really upset when someone generalized metal music, how ironic. You're doing the same exact thing retard

He's 13 years old, nuff said

Answer 10

TI recently made a statement about that issue. he was sayin that parents be lookin @ tv an rapperz to raise they kidz. which iz true. they tryin to make they cash any which they can. they cant control wat kidz listen to, thatz the parentz job. start whoppin sum azz!

an on the rock note, i am a big fan of both genres, an both are probably the most negative of all others. i mean, they quote 'Sex, Drugz and Rock an Roll' ? doesnt sound that better than rap now huh. dont be so hard on the rap game. Rock iz known az the 'suicide genre'.

but no hard feelinz, i luv em both!