music's influence on people Options

[brooklyneast05]

lawyer: was it your intention to get young black people to be violent to police?
tupac: no
lawyer: were you trying to provoke anyone to do anything particular?
tupac: yes
lawyer: tell us what
tupac: think.



do you believe music is responsible for young people's actions? not limited to rap, that's just my example. there's lots of music charged with making kids go nuts, metal, junk school shooting kids listen to, etc. whenever young people do something bad they always turn around and ask what music they were listening to.

[brooklyneast05]

i think it can influence people but i don't think it can turn good into bad either. i grew up listening to rap (not that all rap is violent, cause it certainly isn't). i'm not a crazy person who goes out at night to shoot cops. the cops would like to think this is the case maybe, but the reality is i don't need tupac to inform me that there are crooked cops. i don't think anyone does, especially depending on the environment you grew up. tupac acknowledging that there is crooked cops isn't gonna make people go shoot them imo.

it would be f*cked up if artists couldn't acknowledge the shit in the world that already exists. they didn't make this stuff up. guns, crime, messed up cops, bad situations, drugs, inequality, all that stuff existed first before anyone could acknowledge it in a song.