Effects of rap and hip hop lyrics on teen's language and behavior

There is no questioning that rap and hip hop has a huge impact on today's youth. The question is, is the impact positive, or negative?

Although I listen to rap and hip hop, I believe that it leaves a negative impact on today's youth. The music is entertaining, but have you really listened to the lyrics of rap and hip hop? The lyrics in this genre of music is provocative, usually talking about money, sex or degrading women. Rarely does this genre of music talk about meaningful inspirational things.

It affects the youth by sending out the message that only money and sex is important. It sends out the message that women aren't worthy, and are only viewed as sex objects. If you watch music videos by rappers, you will notice that it mostly consist of women and sex. This is not the type of things that we want our youth to watch, as well as mimic.

I lived in South Sacramento my whole life. I've lived in an area that was influenced by rap and hip hop. I remember being little, and all the little kids in my apartment mimicking the lyrics to a rap song, which was inappropriate for children. This shows that kids are influenced by rap music and that they also mimic what they see and hear. We do not want them to mimic rappers and promote money, sex, and degrading women.

Even though there are some positives that evolve from rap and hip hop, such as self expression, the negatives outweigh the positives.  Rap just isn't the type of music that young people should listen to. Unless these artist change the lyrics and meanings of their songs, this genre of music should not be listened to by our youth. It would only influence them to  mimic the negativity portrayed in the music.

Rap and hip hop also cause crimes, if not, crime rates to increase. Why? Because rap and hip hop talks about gangs, and money as top priority. Our youth will be influenced by this music and copy what they hear and see.

We don't want this to happen to our future generation, therefore, this type of genre of music should not be listened to by our youth. It would only impact them negatively, because rap and hip hop today is full of inappropriate things.