Negative Impacts Of Hip Hop On Teen

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How Hip-Hop Negatively Influences Today 's Teen “We teenagers are growing up in a society where the media has a great impact on our lives,”said a teenage author of an article on Teen Ink. Hip-Hop, is the most influential source of media that is affecting today’s teenagers. How is it affecting them? The Hip-Hop and Rap music industry rap about drugs, money, women, and cars causing them to want to experiment with new drugs, steal, sell drugs, have sex, vandalize, disobey the law and try to be someone they aren 't. Even though some teens from the ghetto look up to rappers that were once like them and became successful, hip-hop music still has a negative influence on teenagers because they want to model the rap artist lifestyle and listening to hip-hop music encourages teenagers to try drugs. Some teenagers that are from the ghetto …show more content…

These two artist have made albums that every single song has something to do with either marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, and/or any other drug out there. By listening to the music produced by them will most likely make you want to go do what they do. Nicki Minaj is another influential rapper she tends to rap about sexual relations she 's had or wants to have. Her newest song Anaconda is about a guy who doesn 't want to have sex with certain girls because they don 't have a big butts. This doesn 't only make teens want to go out and have sex themselves but for some girls it might even make them feel unwanted because of how their bodies are. Another negative rap artist is Eazy-E, he has been dead for about 19 years now and his music is still influencing many teens to be gangster like he once was. Most of his songs were about thugs hanging out on the street and smoking or selling drugs. He himself was considered a gangster from Compton, CA , always disrespecting the law and women in many if his famous rap

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