Is Hip Hop Culture Adding to Our Decline?

Let's start with the beginning of Rap music. When Rap first began as a musical art form in the early 80's, it was actually ok. Then as we start moving into the late 80's, we start having violent and suggestive themes added to lyrics and music videos. When we hit the early 90's, Rap music is no longer music that symbolizes life in the "ghetto" or
"hood", but it actually starts glamorizing the life. By the time the late 90's rolls around, Rap is only about drugs, sex, getting wasted, pulling drive-bys, getting ho's, killing whitey, fu*king the system, gold chains, and metal teeth. I mean doesn't it point fingers as to where our priorities and values are when we start letting this deviant subculture into our classrooms and our television sets. Some of you may be thinking, "Boy, this question should have been asked a Decade ago", "You're about 2 decades late". But Seriously,

My question to you all is: Why have we let Rap taken over our children's lives? Letting our children believe that it's ok to call a woman a "Bit*h" or a "Ho". Making our children believe that it's ok to dress in grotesque fashions. Are we ok with this, or is the Silent Majority just a bunch of Wimps about this? I don't mean to sound like a Conservative Square here, but everywhere I turn around there's this violent, obnoxious, revolting culture. And though I live in NYC, where gangsta culture thrives, I can't stand it, and I want to know if this problem only exists in the major cities, or everywhere.

Lastly, think about this. When some people think about Hip Hop they think it just means listening to music. But let me tell you all something, this culture is the reason why we have so many Damn people incarcerated. Because every dude between 13 and 20 wants to be a "Gangsta", deal drugs, be violent, and be constantly violating the rules and ethics of society. Can we all just Stop the Politically Correct bullshit, and tell it like it is?
 
It certainly doesn't do any good. They glamorize drug use, promiscuous sex, using racial slurs, it's degrading to women. I find it funny that some of the responders are calling it art. I think it sounds cool, and sometimes is produced by truly artistic artists, but for the most part its about a record company coming up with a good hook for the latest club banger.

In reality it teaches young black kids that they can't make it in real life because of the color of their skin. Like the only way to make it is to "hustle" which can mean anything from pimping, drug dealing, or crime. It's not all bad, but it certainly isn't good.
 
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Yes, it definitely has lowered the morals of those who listen to it.

Originally, the music was brought to the suburbs with school busing. -- The novelty of it was attractive to the suburban kids.

Now, as you say, it is a destructive influence to all who listen to it.

Sick lyrics, chanted by talentless individuals that couldn't make a cent actually singing a real song.

Glad I don't live anywhere that I have to listen to it!

Thank goodness for my 12 acres in the country!!!

(And by the way, Country, Rock, and most other currently popular modern music is not exactly morally up-building either!)


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it isn;t hip hop
its the glamerization of the people who pretend the live gangster life style which makes rkids who are dumb enough to belive it want to be like it
tupac never said that a thug is a great thing to be

he said no one who leads a thug life is innocent

so as long as people are awarded for acting like dumbasses the impresionable people will follow suit
change how people see things and then change of the rest will follow
 
and has been doing so for at least two decades. It's not just hip-hop alone...although most of those artists are socialist liberals who think the government owes them everything on a silver platter at tax payer's expense. It's modern pop-culture in general that is causing our country to drift farther and farther away from the original intentions of our Founding Fathers and Constitution...
 
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