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Compare And Contrast Parenting Vs Rap Music

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Rap Music Vs Parenting Mason Bolton EGCC English 102 Mrs. Dewberry February 16, 2023 Abstract With the long history of rap music becoming popular and taking over many music genres, trouble arises when it comes to children listening to this specific kind of music. A lot of violence, anger, and cursing, portrayed throughout these songs makes the music a bad influence upon kids and teenagers. The glorification of material objects and the encouraged praise of the devil causes kids to disconnect themselves from reality and believe that they could be and do some things that are not realistic whatsoever. Rap Music VS Parenting Thesis: Despite the opposite claim that rap music provides a door for young …show more content…

He was very violent at an early age, and would make fun of his opposition’s friends and family who had passed away. This sparked enough anger and rage in the fifteen year old, that he decided to murder Notti in broad daylight, with a …show more content…

While the genre is very big, many of the top artists live, or have lived a major portion of their life behind bars for committing felonious crimes. In no particular order, YNW Melly, YFN Lucci, Pooh Shiesty, Casanova, Tay-K, Q Money, Hoodrich Pablo Juan, RondoNumbaNine, and Fam Goon Ralo have all served time in state penitentiaries, prisons, and even in solitary confinement.” With an already large list of names, this article only focuses on a few, considering these are the top rap artists of our time. Fans of these individuals will make t-shirts and posts on social media that quote “Free …” followed up by the rapper's name. Regardless of the crime, the children who listened to these rappers want to continue to hear music from them, and they look over the murders, racketeering, and drug smuggling that some of these rappers had to serve time for. … “Two years later, one of the most influential rappers ever, Tupac Shakur, served eight months in prison on sexual abuse charges” (HesAlwaysRight,

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However, one line, stanza, song, or even album is not enough to claim that criminal characteristics, acts, and themes that rappers express completely characterizes the rapper. There is no objective way to answer how much of a rapper’s discography requires consideration and interpretation for the legal system to conclude that the violent nature of a rapper’s lyrics genuinely reflects the rapper’s true nature. For example, artists like Tupac Shakur have a diverse discography that tackles themes besides crime. Although Tupac’s Hit Em Up—which explicitly threatens East Coast Rappers Biggie Smalls and Puff Diddy with gang violence—on its own portrays a violent Tupac, that portrayal would incompletely exhibit Tupac’s complex character. When courtrooms recite rap lyrics with depictions of violence in trial, prosecution counsels provide the lyrics without the full context of the rapper’s reason for producing the song and rap genre conventions and themes.

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