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    21st century listen to a variety of music every day. Music is an art form that teens tend to understand, no matter the genre. With genres comes subgenres of music. Teens may like a genre of music, but not all subgenres that come with it. Some of the most popular genres of music among teenagers are rap, rock, and pop. Rap is a very popular genre of music amongst teenagers because it is upbeat and is rather thought out. Another reason for its popularity is that most rap songs have a rhyme scheme that is

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    Throughout time music has disseminated in all areas in the world. Music is a part of our everyday lives. Many people that thrive through the music industry produces their own music lyrics so all the unknown people without a voice can relate in their songs. Music plays a great significant quality in our economy, politics and culture. Music like Hip-hop and Rap are one of the most controversial reforms in society, many audiences may say it's disgraceful while others see it as a way to express themselves

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    My favorite music is rap. There’s something about rap that makes me feel a certain mood I can hardly explain. There are many rappers out there that some people may like that I don’t. I also make raps in my free time if i’m in a silent room and listening to rap music to get me in that mood. I like classic rap like 2pac and Biggie, and some modern rap like Danny Brown and Stitches. A lot of people bully me over the music I listen to and I try my best to ignore them but they somehow get in my head.

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    Rap music has been around for many decades. Rap/hip hop is a music genre that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that usually accompanies rapping. Since rap music’s explosion, it took the industry and became the important part of hip hop culture. It has advanced over time as a part of hip hop culture, which originated from urban youth in New York as a cultural movement. Its original listeners were primarily African America and it has spread around the world and hip hop has come to be a part for

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    Is today “Gangster rap” and rappers corrupting society, introducing drugs and provoking violence? In the mid-1980s Gangster rap came to be depicting images of violence, guns, gangs, drugs, and sexism. By the 1990s rap music became a major part of the industry and topped the charts. As people began to want different things; different music was created and that contributed to the variety of music that we have today. This is one of the many things that makes America different but is severely under looked

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    Rap music is a big part of today's American society, and is the most popular music genre of today. So it is easy to say that it has major influences on the youth of today's generations. Now the controversial question is whether the influence is a good or bad one. Sure today’s rappers rap about the “rags to riches” and the fame and glory they get for being rappers, which could be motivational for some. But for the most part rappers rap about all the drugs, violence, and sexual intercourse they have

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    The article Rap Music and Its Violent Progeny: America’s Culture of Violence in Context, addresses how rap music persuades young individuals toward violence. Jeanita W. Richardson and Kim A. Scott researched to see if rap music stimulates young people to be violent in the society. According to the bureau of justice statistics violent crimes did in fact happen more among teenagers, particularly in African Americans. Conferring to the article rap music was more popular among the African American community

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    build as a group. For myself, I didn’t get the obsession with rap music. I largely understood rap to be a vehicle for misogyny, drugs, and violence, but I then found myself guilty of the one thing I accuse my beloved youth of doing on a daily basis: not listening. I was tricked into loving rap music by participating in my favorite activity – one that steals my time and money – going to concerts. There, I witnessed the power of the rap narrative and its power when given to a live, reactive audience

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    Rap is a music genre, or better yet, a culture, otherwise known as hip hop, which emerged during the 1980’s in the South Bronx, New York City. Rap is a music genre that allows for self-expression by mostly African Americans. Common themes involve crime, violence and hardships that they face living in poverty-stricken communities. Lyrics often depict police brutality, racial injustice and flaws in the educational systems (Cepeda 44). The rap music industry has grown to become one of the largest

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    Hip-hop and Rap Music Often times when people hear about Hip Hop/Rap music, they'll paint a picture in their heads of black men cussing, guns, marijuana, lots of gold, and girls looking like prostitutes. Parents and teachers put an image in their kid's head that Rap music is "bad", and they don't want their kids to be influenced by something that is negative. With the way Rap music is advertised in the US, I would have to agree with that looking at it from an average parent's point of

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