Similarities Between Rap Music And Violence

Name Yueming Bao
Professor’s Name Holliday
Class Monday class
Date Oct. 24
Rap Music and Violence When you see a young man, listening the loud music with headphone, wearing the jeans showing the underwear, walking with the swinging steps, what would you think about him? As we all know hip-hop music as one kind of special music and culture is being popular in decades. The big influence of rap lyrics is also a big problem, because Rap music lyrics always have bad words and violence. The music with violence content becomes a bigger problem towards young generation. Exploring the problem people from different views holding different opinions about influence of rap music. Text #5 directly pointed out the link between violence and rap music; however,

“Overall, increased acceptance of crime and violence appears to be linked with viewing violent or sexist rap videos rather than listening to rap music on its own (Johnson et al., 1995).” (Listening to Rap Music Does Not Make Teens Violent, paragraph 3) This points make the agreement with resource #2 Violence Rap Make Listener More Accepting Violence, they both indicated that music video which appears about violence and sexism would cause the bigger impact than lyrics. Another study compared the rap music and heavy metal music, and they found out that “Interestingly, university students who prefer heavy metal actually hold more hostile attitudes toward women, whereas their rap-loving peers tended to be more distrustful of the opposite sex (Rubin et al., 2001).” (Listening to Rap Music Does Not Make Teens Violent, paragraph 10) The research shows that rap music would cause less effect than heavy metal, and it won’t be a huge impact to cause violence crime. Therefore, it is not absolutely correct to say rap music and lyrics would make teens

So after we get down the violent scale of all the things create real violence to get to music, it will be easy keeping your part 1 of same thing you talk about politics smoke weed and black woman.” (The Lie That Rap Music Causes Violence! 2:07-2:29) He compared music and other real violence to claimed that hip-hop music wouldn’t create violence by passing the lyrics with violence. This explaining is a unique few of defining the violence of hip-hop music which is different than rest of materials above. And he strongly disagrees with rap music causes violence. Also, he gave his opinion about changing the situation: “And it’s my first time see they say we are going to involve the whole peace treaty. And what government should have done is what we do when we go to farmland, get all the people who rebels been sitting together and say listening to return true reconciliation, let 's fix this thing from the ground up.” (The Lie That Rap Music Causes Violence! 3:37-3:54) He advocated that government and rapper, especially the young people group, should negotiate and lead rap music towards healthy and positive ways. Text #2 mentioned the strategies as well; however, it advanced that government should legislate to stop the violence rap music, which is different than Killer Mike 's