Gangster Rap Is Not To Blame
by Something to think about when you want to blame gangster rap for school violence.
Professional Football was popular before it was broadcasted on television. Broadcasting football on television made it even more popular. This is the same concept with objectifying women. Hip-hop became big in the late 1970’s People have been objectifying women before that. The biggest example is the pimping. Unfortunately, Hip-hop is only guilty of exposing it on daytime television.
In conclusion, I wish people would stop saying hip-hop is destroying our youth because it’s not. It is lack of discipline. We need to stop measuring our kids’ success on the type of music they listen to and start measuring it by the type of education and discipline they are getting.
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On July 21, 2009 at 10:10 am
The problem with hip hop does not lie in whether or not it is the first to objectify women but that it is applauded, awarded and accepted by main stream culture for it. The violence in schools is debatable. it seems as if you are talking about extreem violence rather than everyday occurances of personal violations. What about bullying and sexual harrassment? Sometimes these are never reported due to main stream pressures. If a male were to report bullying, he is a wimp and not man enough to handle his affairs. If a girl is sexually harrassed, well that’s just the way guys treat girls: like objects. While extreem violence such as shootings may not be flashing on cnn and hip hop sales may not be withering, I challange you to compare sales with gang membership, bullying, sexual harrassment, and the self image of girls affected by the images hip hop has to offer.