Rap Music And Violence Analysis

The second article is about rap music and violence. The article’s authors, Jeanita W. Richardson and Kim A. Scott, explore rap music’s history and place in American culture. The article discusses the ways in which rap music is related to violence, by looking at the creators and listeners of this genre. They argue that it is not primarily about violence towards others, it began as a way for urban youths to express themselves and their unfortunate lot in life and frustration in their situations, with less education opportunities available, poverty, heavy drug influences, and police brutality. The violent lyrics are simply a reflection of a culture of violence in America. As with all people, youths are willing to spend money on things that they are drawn to, whether it is music, movies, etc. and violence is what sold. The authors explain how younger audiences are drawn towards more violent media as that is what has been promoted for them in the media from an early age, as cartoons and regular children’s commercial television are riddled with violent acts. Later in rap’s history, 7 out of 10 youths who bought rap albums

The first article discusses how the themes in the music may cause violence or increase feelings of violence towards the self, usually without specifically ever mentioning those acts, whereas rap music talks specifically about violence and the culture it is seen in by the artists. The first article is a study looking at rates of suicide, percentage of country music on the air and other variables, while the second article doesn’t have any data recorded, it is just talks about its topic and gives a full summary all of its issues. The articles neither contradict nor confirm each other, as they talk about different cultures of