Unfortunately, there is always a demand for violence on our market.īefore blaming rap music and videos for encouraging children and teenagers to commit violent acts, we should try to find out why is this music so popular among them. It’s true, that for many of the rap singers their music is just the way to earn money and popularity, thus they fill their songs with the content that sells successfully. Some journalists and psychologists prove that rap videos are just one of the ways of “selling” rap culture. Social conditions such as poverty, racial discrimination, substance abuse, inadequate schools, joblessness, and family conflict and dissolution contribute to an environment that fosters violence not just rap music videos. Jay Nordlinger in his article “’Bang’: Guns, rap, and silence – violence in rap music” published in National Review (April 2001) claims that “gangsta” rappers … glory in guns and gun violence in song after song after song.” He, along with the other social activists tries to persuade the society that gun violence promulgated in the lyrics and videos of some rap singers is one of the main reasons for the children to bring guns to school and shoot their teachers and classmates.īut it’s obvious that rap music videos solely are incapable of creating this effect. The adherents of this theory consider rap music to be one of the greatest threats for the soles and minds of young Americans. Grossman and DeGaetano in their book “Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV Movie and Video Game Violence” (1999) pursue this idea even further, as they prove that media not only conditions children and young adults to violent behavior, but also teaches them the “mechanics of killing”. Psychologists and sociologists say, that young people tend to act as their idols do, so that when they see popular artists, actors and singers consuming alcohol, smoking, using illicit drugs, shooting and committing other violent acts on TV screen, teenagers little by little get used to the thought that those actions are normal, and moreover, needed to look “cool”. Despite of the positive effect the rap songs had, nowadays lot’s of people blame them for the rapid increase of the level of violence in the U.S. Throughout the past decades, rap music had contributed to the social consciousness a lot, as it displayed the problems the Afro-American poor had. Of the variety of factors that affect the social consciousness music is one of the most prominent ones, as the creativity is sometimes the only way to tell the world about the inequality, discrimination and injustice that is happening.
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