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.

[karmakiller]

"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"

I think it's a cop out to say that kids do stupid shit because of the music they listen to. I think in certain environments that music can be escape of the reality that some people have to live everyday, but I think that if someone does commit an act of violence against someone else that the first thing that person says motivated them to do it isn't going to be music.