Hip hop has had a negative affect on society

[Jim_Davis]

For people who are too ****** to distinguish the difference between real life and music and people who are easily influenced.

[nesta1]

With that said, how about Hollywood? They by far have had a more profound affect on society than hip hop. Fact of the matter is, Hollywood generates much more money for white business men, therefore, comes under far less scrutiny.
"Scarface the movie did more than scarface the rapper to me".

[Jim_Davis]

You don't think that statement should be the other way around?
I refuse to believe people make rash descions based on a song they've heard.
For example, if being a criminal is in you, there's nothing T.I., Jay-Z or anybody else can say to change that. You're going to be a criminal

Im not talking about 1 song but if a kid listens to rappers like Jay-Z talk about how poor they were as kids but then they got into the drug game and got rich then that kid is gonna see that as acceptable cos his role models do it. Even though Jay-Z even advises people not to sell drugs the fact he did it makes them think its okay to do so. Cos pushing is an easier and more likely way to make money than recording songs in your spare time is.

The amount of drug dealers and wannabee gangsters I've got in my college is unreal. They all got the same thing in common when it comes to listening to music and their tastes in films and I know for a fact not all of them are from broken homes. They're being influenced to act that way through music and movies.

Thats the harsh truth. I see it going on for people my age.

[res]

Im not talking about 1 song but if a kid listens to rappers like Jay-Z talk about how poor they were as kids but then they got into the drug game and got rich then that kid is gonna see that as acceptable cos his role models do it. Even though Jay-Z even advises people not to sell drugs the fact he did it makes them think its okay to do so. Cos pushing is an easier and more likely way to make money than recording songs in your spare time is.

The amount of drug dealers and wannabee gangsters I've got in my college is unreal. They all got the same thing in common when it comes to listening to music and their tastes in films and I know for a fact not all of them are from broken homes. They're being influenced to act that way through music and movies.

Thats the harsh truth. I see it going on for people my age.

If by "negative effect" you mean that Hip Hop makes society more violent, than as I have shown in the past, that idea can be quite easily refuted by looking at American crime statistics over the years.

[D.I.E.S.E.L]

For people who are too ****** to distinguish the difference between real life and music and people who are easily influenced.

Well agree that people who are easily influenced are followers and don't even understand it because they don't have their ****in eyes open. I got friends that as soon as they began listening to hip/hop, their behavior changed and started drug-dealing and ****. What they don't know is no rapper got on the mic and told em to go sell ****, but they do tell you to get your hustle on. But because some people are ignorant, they feel the need to get easy money thru drug-dealing, putting their future at risk as if they got their head buried in the ground like a ostrich. Hip Hop doesn't have a negative effect on society, ignorance does. Peace...

[triggnom]

rap didnt make the hood,
the hood made rap

rap is a reflection of whats already their,

the kids that are really into street crime, would of bin criminals without rap. No rap will only stop the part time gangsters for the most part, who arent the ones doin the real serious crimes.

New York was crazy back in the day before rap even began glorifying violence on the level it does now.

[triggnom]

New York was crazier back then, and more people listen to
rap now a days than they did back then

[res]

New York was crazier back then, and more people listen to
rap now a days than they did back then

There you go

If these kids had known 1980's New York they would not think like they do.
There was nothing "cool" about it. Cat's killing kids in the street and dumping their bodies in the snow for a pair of sneakers. Even if you were dealing drugs you didn't have too much of a big head cause you knew anything could happen at anytime. it didn't have to be from a gangsta or a mugger, it could be some nut shooting his gun around in random directions for no good reason. Back then the murder rate peaked at 2.5 thousand per year. Now it's down to a few hundred. The city is profoundly more safe and a bunch of kids that don't remember any of that like to pose like they know it. But who cares, they are just posing, the city is safer than it ever was and it's a wonderful place to live.


When your actually going through it, you want an escape from it, you don't want to glorify it, and that is what Hip hop was back in the day, an escape.

[neils7147933]

For people who are too ****** to distinguish the difference between real life and music and people who are easily influenced.

Any form of external influence can spell something bad for society when it comes to ****** people's interpretations...

[Tha Greatest]

Naz Fan ... Can you please stop posting?