Downfalls of Rap: Is There Any Good?

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Has anybody ever thought about the way your mood is varies by the music genre you listen to?

Parents in modern day probably have no idea hat kind of music their mid listens to, and it's not a bad idea to check their music source even so often. There's quite a few music genres young adults listen to, and it will either have a positive or a negative influence on their attitudes and outlook on life and the attribute to the choices they make.

It's been said by ,any people on YahooVoices that rap has different ways of impacting a person; obviously because everyone is different. Rap can make a person happy or angry; rap songs are more known to promote angry feelings more than any other genre of music. When an artist raps about, for example, hating the world and everyone in it, or rapping about getting into a fight, lyrics about implying drugs and other illegal substances and etc., it puts the idea out there for the audience that is listening, that its okay to do all of the bad stuff the rapper is doing and trying to make it the 'new cool', when in reality it does more harm than good to do those things, but they don't tell you that.

Young adults, both male and female, who listen to rap music are generally more accepting of violence towards women.

(Karen Wright)

Rap generally has lyrics and music videos of disrespect towards women by either having a female be 'that girl that's dancing inappropriately by the rapper', or just standing by the rapper who's surrounded by females and holding a wad of cash or throwing it up in the air, looking like his property. To me, rap sends The message of it being okay to disrespect women and be more violent because that's generally what they rap about now a days and young adults will rub off on it.

Now, above is what I call bad rap, or negative influenced rap, but believe it or not there is actually good rap out there, and good quality rap doesn't necessarily have to suck. If the artist takes the time to make meaningful, positive influenced rap, then by all means people are less likely to lash out in violence and aggression. Sometimes, rap can do so much as to make an individual feel happy. There are numerous people who state that rap music makes them feel more relaxed; others feel more energetic because rap music promotes dancing and movement. Rap varies differently on effecting an individual, showing diverse results. Depending on the person, listening to rap can either be good or bad in the long run.