Rap Music: Offensive Music Promoting Racism, Sexism and Violence?

Discuss.

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even though this is gonna make me seem very narrow minded and conservative{which im definately NOT}, i will have to completely agree with the statement.

rap music makes women seem like sex toys and makes being a drug dealer or a thug seem cool.....which it's not.

It also promotes very bad, overdone music. Did I say music? I meant spoken, er, sped-up, word set to Casio keyboard background noise.

Fo Sho botankus!

this is my opinion... anybody dumb enough to imitate what the music- any kind of music- says or what the movies show shouldn't be allowed near a radio and television.

somehow these people tend to forget that this is all just a figment of an imaginative mind that wanted to entertain people. it's not a script to life. i'm a grown man with stress at work and at home, f*cking up 3-d zombies and imperial samurais is the only relief i get when i get home. and on the way home, i cuss along with ice cube, 50 cent and whoever is flavor of the week in the rap game.

Fo shizzle my wizzle..bo gizzle.

some artists...do promote bad things.. but personally i like rap music

EDIT: i love all kinds of music including rock, rap, pop, hip-hop, trance, house, country...

true. but who in their right mind would allow themself to be influence by a line or two of bad poetry or a single scene in a movie?

You'd be surprised. Rap Music is EXTREMELY influential on black youth in America.

Rap for the most part supports the "thug life gangsta pimp f**k the police let's f**k some hoes we found in the club" type of life style. not cool boo boo. what would Jesus say? don't tell me he'd say crank that sh*t up homeboy...cuz I doubt that.

what a load of crap!!
Im crazy for rap... i love rap and I'm totally ok with black people, Im not at ALL violent, I support gay marriage, etc.

if u think that if u listen rap music u'll become a sexist violent racist man you have issues

rap music is extremely influential everywhere, not just the states. rap music is all over the world. it's just so f*cking easy to acquire a gun in this great country of ours.

where else in the world can you shop for cereal and a 12 gauge pump action shotgun all in one store?

Yes on all accounts. To suggest that kids just up and STOP being impressionable is ludicrous. It's a part of growing up, emulating what you see on television. Asking kids to make a distinction is something they have to be taught by their PARENTS, who apparently aren't around if they let that kind of shit go on.

relax....I am African American...or Black..African American sounds too technically...I think Rap okay in small does...and I don't think anyone should try to live the thug life...but lately Rap became too much like WWE ya feel me white bro-tha man?

Originally posted by Mainstream
Rap for the most part supports the "thug life gangsta pimp f**k the police let's f**k some hoes we found in the club" type of life style. not cool boo boo. what would Jesus say? don't tell me he'd say crank that sh*t up homeboy...cuz I doubt that.

no, it doesn't support, it portrays. there's a big difference.

Originally posted by Draco69
You'd be surprised. Rap Music is EXTREMELY influential on black youth in America.

well..a lot of people that buy rap music is ur average white kid. but rap influences anyone who is willing to listen.
but its not only rap. all music and ALL media is influential.
and its obvious that a lot of things are portrayed badly in media.

a person jus must be smart enough to not follow everything that the media hypes as good or popular

Originally posted by Mainstream
rap music makes women seem like sex toys and makes being a drug dealer or a thug seem cool.....which it's not.

they are NOTHING but lyrics!!

now what? u listen green day then it will make u hate the united states?