Does Gangsta Rap Have A Negative Effect and Poison The Minds of the Youth?

[5 Grand]

First of all, I'm sick of seeing people walk around with their pants hanging off their ass with their underwear showing. I'm pretty sure that comes from Hip Hop culture.

In the clip below, Special Ed makes the claim that "NWA brought the age of destruction"




So the question remains, does Rap music have a negative effect on society that causes crime, violence, and destructive behavior?

Is there conclusive proof that

(A) the lyrics in "gangsta rap" caused an escalation in violence, gang activity, and drug use (which leads to incarceration and death)?

Or

(B) Was that stuff already going on and the rappers were just speaking on it?


Or

(C) Did the major labels and major corporations intentionally promote gangsta rap to Black youth because they wanted to cause the community to implode?

Or

(D) Are rap lyrics and violence in the community totally unrelated?

 

[5th Letter]

No

 

[SheerExcellence]

(E) all of the above

 

[5 Grand]

(E) all of the above

How could A and D both be true?

 

[SheerExcellence]

my bad bruh, i didn’t fully read D, take that one out and i’ll say a,b, c all combined contributed to the issue

 

[A-List]

A B C....Yes things were already going on, I believe the lyrics in gangsta rap sensationalized negative aspects of the hood experience. And once the labels and their investors noticed this, they pushed that shyt. I believe a higher authority encouraged them the labels as well.

 

[Marc123]

First of all, I'm sick of seeing people walk around with their pants hanging off their ass with their underwear showing. I'm pretty sure that comes from Hip Hop culture.

In the clip below, Special Ed makes the claim that "NWA brought the age of destruction"




So the question remains, does Rap music have a negative effect on society that causes crime, violence, and destructive behavior?

Is there conclusive proof that

(A) the lyrics in "gangsta rap" caused an escalation in violence, gang activity, and drug use (which leads to incarceration and death)?

Or

(B) Was that stuff already going on and the rappers were just speaking on it?


Or

(C) Did the major labels and major corporations intentionally promote gangsta rap to Black youth because they wanted to cause the community to implode?

Or

(D) Are rap lyrics and violence in the community totally unrelated?

Like everything in life:

Its a little bit of everything.

But im sure "gangsta rap" didnt help the situation.

 

[Freeman]

It hasn't helped more people than it's hurt.

Just not worth what it's cost us.

 

[Old Man Cain]

As I matured and gotten older......yes

 

[5 Grand]

I guess the question is; Does music that glorifies deviant behavior cause deviant behavior?

 

[Old Man Cain]

I guess the question is; Does music that glorifies deviant behavior cause deviant behavior?

Music put a voice out there for people to say/do what they always wanted say/do. When Chuck D was rapping about Black is beautiful and throwing up the Black Fist in videos we was walking around with Africa medallions around our neck NWA dropped Fuck the Police we was all on that as well.

Music amplifies all forms of behavior if all these rappers rapped about respecting our women calling out fuck niggas destroying our neighborhoods we would see a decline in a lot of things IMO. I'm not going to act like I didn't try do all the shit I heard in music because lord knows I was trying to be Ice Cube when he dropped my My Summer Vacation track.

 

[Goldie]

 

[BlackRain]

Anything can have a negative effect so yes music isn't exempt from that. But when people try to make the argument that rap music creates the negative things or shit would be better without is where I push back because the circumstances exists with or without the music.