hip hop beneficial?, is it beneficial to the society? what is it doing to the children Options

[anniepiee]

personally, i think it really has some negative influence to the children. from the music talking about maffia, abusing women, guns, etc. However, another part of me believes that adolescents have enough sense in their heads to know that it's wrong. Besides, people who produce music wouldnt take a gun and shoot at some innocent person, right?

what do you think?

[sillakilla220]

this is a tricky subject. dont make the mistake of lumpin all hiphop together. yes, there are lots of artists whos lyrical content includes the usual mafia braggadocio of drugs, sex, and violence. yet this is not wat all of hip hop is. for every young jeezy there is a common, a rapper who doesnt put down women, treats the female in the highest respect, and raps about real problems in life, not made up, fictional gang-stories that are generally false.

so to answer your problem, yes hip hop is very beneficial, but at the time all that is getting mainstream play is the watered down shit. but to be honest, its the upper-class rich white(some black) youth that support this music b/c they are not from the hood and cant really differentiate between realness and half-ass exaggerated stories.

but u could ask this about any music genre. is depressing whiny emo beneficial? is crazy rage-filled rock music beneficial? b/c to me, this shit is just as detrimental, especially the crazy-rock, as hip hop. this shit talks about f**kin ppl up, and havin ppl killed too. its just that no one likes this shit so its not as big of a deal.