Does Rap make u do bad things?

Question

Does explicit rap influence your home? Does it influence the world? Or do u simple see it as what it is.......Someones life, fantasy/ies or the world through thier eyes formated for our entertainment. I was watching BET lastnight and there was a debate about rap VS the world{somerthing like that}. They talked about how wrong rap is and how it influences our young. And How your home should be the influencer. Everyone is talking about how bad it is but, how bad could it be if thier getting rich from it?

Answer 1

Ultimately, you do what you choose to do.

Saying rap, or religion, or any thing made you do something is like saying "The devil made me do it." It's a cop-out and it places blame on anything and anyone but yourself.

Does rap today send a good message? No, but that's a different question and how children react to it is related to parenting.

Answer 2

Any kind of music only influences your home if you let it. If you have music with vulgarities and obscenities blastin in your home then your kids are going to be influenced that way as opposed to if you play blues in your home all day. Rap music only influences the people who cant distinguish between reality and fiction. If you dont live or come from the situations that people are rapping about you dont really have a real connection, you just like the music. If you grew up with both your parents in the suburbs and went to private school your life is quite different from someone in the projects or inner city as to how you see the music. Education is the only thing that can teach people how to distinguish real from the fake. Teaching kids that everyone cant sell drugs and get a record deal is a big factor especially when the risk is higher that they will go to jail. Rap does not influence anyone to do anything and whoever says it is ignorant. Parents influence their kids and the environment that they are growing up in influences them. I got Snoop's "DOGGYSTYLE" CD when i was 10 for christmas and still have it to this day but never has it or any of the lyrics made me think i was a gangster or i could sell drugs or smoke weed all day. I have tons of cd's that i like with vulgarities in them but if you like music you dont hear those necessarily, you hear the story in the songs depending on what your listening to. Some songs only contain obscenities and those are usually the lame songs that get the most radio and TV airtime. Its only bad if you give kids access to the material, if you have a child who has never heard a Rick Ross song they wont even pay attention to it when they hear it, but when you as an adult listen to music in front of your kids that you listen to by yourself thats when you start a problem.

Rapping is a job just like everything else in this world, but people get rich off worse stuff than the music on the radio. Preachers who are millionaires are a joke, you have legal prositution, and tons of other things that people make money off of and society turns their head. So in my eyes the music is not bad at all, its actually toned down from back in the day.

Answer 3

I'm torn on this question. On one hand I see rap as the voice of a segment of the population largely ignored by many. When done rightly it can and has done many great things. There is and are many "conscious" rap groups/songs On the negative it glorifies violence, breeds a certain mindlessness in youth, makes it cool to be illiterate, indulges in "the cult of money" (most rap videos are only concerned about how much money a rapper makes), and to me the worst offense is it has systematically lowered the image of black women as nothing more than booty shaking hoes whom love having a bottle of champagne poured down their cleavage.

Answer 4

although rap music suppose to be all about entertainment it does influence young people and adults for that matter and the young rappers today i think really dont understand how much of an influnce it actually has and for them to be up on a stage now obviously they were influenced themselves but i guess they put that all behind them once they start to make a lil money and 9 times outta 10 they grew up on people like NWA,THE GETTO BOYS, and all the other gangsta rappers from back then although the east coast was dominating the airways back they were talking about partying and having fun which was cool but when gangsta rap showed up everybody from across the country could identify with what they was talking about ...all you had to do was look out your front door and you have to remember around that time is when crack cocain took us to another place in time now any and everybody can rap about the streets, making money,and busting caps even if they never done any of that with the gangs and drugs it just basically took all the entertainment out of the music, another thing is the east coast was all hip hop, everybody else is rapping, there is no hip hop in gangsta music its a difference between the two,and alot of the rappers out now just cant rap about anything else, what they talking about is all they know,so now we need to question the artist true talent,gangsta rap has such an influnce that when the west coast hit the scene it was no crips and bloods anywhere else, now you got a crip or a blood set in every major city in america,but back then in the early 90"s i think the rappers was really saying sunthing,like ice cube,he had a joint were he was talking about being in a hospital with wall to wall people and everybody need to see a doctor like yesterday and nobody is getting treated and he died on the hospital floor(dead on arrival) well that actually happend not to long ago, this year matter of fact to a mexican girl at the same hospital he was talking about in that song,he talked about the tension in the L.A neighborhoods in "91" which led to the riots in "92" so although you might have a grip on your house hold yes music in general have some kind of effect on all of our lives and the rappers out today need to really understand that and get creative in what they choose to talk about nowadays,cause its more than enough to go around....peace!!!!!!!!!

Answer 5

It's like moths to a flame - they are attracted to it, but don't realize they're going to get burned to a crisp if they get too close. The language and references to sex and violence are horrible, and people get desensitized after awhile of listening to the garbage, and begin to believe that what they're hearing is normal and ok. That's the way it is with many things. For example: when the movie "Jaws" came out in the 70's, it was given an "R" rating. Now it's out again, but this time with a "PG" rating. What's changed about the movie? Nothing. We've gotten so used to seeing violence of every kind that it almost seems normal, which is quite sad.

Answer 6

I think whoever said rap is effecting our youth is 100% correct. I see how rap has infected all mainstream music and my personal testimony is my older brother curses more and is a little bit more prone to fighting than he did before he started listening to rap. So I think rap sucks its a dying fad that should have been over years ago. Down with rap up with Rock!!!

Answer 7

Rap doesn't make you do bad things. It's something deep inside you that makes you do good or bad things. Things can influence you but they can't make you do what you really don't want to do.

Answer 8

it is bad. young kids think it is great to emulate these guys that just want to get rich off of our vulnerabilities. we as parents should monitor what our kids listen to. there are some good rappers, common, mos def, talib kwelli, that are more about activism than gangsterism. some is ok.

Answer 9

Not Nessesaraly. I Listen to rap music almost every hour of the day .... it just depends on how you take it in

Answer 10

rap music makes me lol because people who rap cant sing and yeh if children watch the music vidieos and like the music they think its "cool" to copy of the vidieos witch may lead to drugs alcohold pregnancy and violence ...