Hip-Hop/Real Rap

Nayeli Munoz 01/15/13 Rap Most heap are unfortunately misled as to what is roast harmony. Many people seem to ingest only heard commercial rap commercial rap is gangster rap. Most of the commercial rap crys talk intimately getting money, gang banging, and some kind of explicit love or sex. Two examples of commercial rappers are 50 Cent and Soulja Boy. True rappers have some kind of poetic flow. Real rap has a deep and meaningful topic, it is like poetry but with more emotion. Tupac and Snoop Dogg are twain great examples of real rappers.A positive influence that rap has on todays young person is that it shows us what is going on in the real world however, rap music can influence youth to be very violent. Another negative about rap is that it is very degrading towards young women. Through their music rap artist show a realistic picture of what is going on around them and how hard it was growing up in poverty. An example of this is when Tupac, a illustrious rapper, in his song Thug Mansion says picture me inside the misery of poverty, no man alive has ever witness struggles I survived.Later on in the same song he continues with seen the politicians ban us, theyd rather see us locked in chains, please explain why they cant stand us. This song is reflects the issues of discrimination toward African American by the government. Rap has opened our eyes to show us the circumstances of poverty, drug use, violence, and how easy they can access guns. detractor Too Short raps about the importance of staying in school and getting a good job.Rap influences youth to be very violent in magnanimous Pun song Brave in the heart he says, Im from where the guns love to introduce they self. Reduce your health little bulletproofs get felt. The streets a trip every you deep or you sleep with the fish. This song tries to tell us that we need to use violence in order to survive, this influences youth to believing that they do have to use violence and therefore they start bei ng violent. Some rappers include new drugs that have not been very popular in their lyrics and when youth listen to it they get urious about the drug and want to learn about it and try it. Violent lyrics can influence youth to start fights or horizontal kill people for what they want. Women in rap videos are usually degraded. Very often young women are laid out as sex tools or sex slaves. They are displayed with not frequently clothes on and they use their bodies to acquire material objects. Young women are exposed to these abominable videos and it can excise their health, their self-esteem can lower and they may think of themselves as useless and worthless.Research shows that many of the young women who listen and watch rap think that they cannot be booming without using their bodies. It is clear that rap can extremely influence todays youth both positive and negative ways however, the negative effects are much larger than the positive effects. It is up to us to decide if rap i s going to affect us in a positive or in a negative way. Bibliography Sid Kirchheimer,(March 3, 2010). Does rap put teens at risk. WebMD. (Online)