Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Corey wants to know . . .
Do you feel that rap music is one of the predominant factors causing the moral decline in our country? Are rappers responsible for others peoples actions that imitate their lyrics? Are rappers more guilty of influencing young people more than musicians like Ossy Osbourne, Marilyn Manson, Korn, HateBreed, Slipnot and other rockers who have come before rappers.
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I must admit that I have found a recent interest in rap. All together, Dem Franchise Boys, Three 6 Mafia, and
Chamillionaire have less talent than me speaking Chinese. Yet, the computerized rythms and beats are impossible to ignore. Such flow and tone actually sounds pretty decent. Sadly, rarely do rappers convey a positive message in their songs. It makes one wonder if pretty much everyone deals Bin Laden weed, spends days getting wasted, and plays a pimp at night. Those questioning their stablility will accept the lyrics as real life. Rap is not the predominant factor that is causing a moral decline in the U.S. It is rather a combination of television and music and a lack of Faith in God that lead more and more people to experience what rappers preach.
-Michael Holmes
Rap is just another way to express ones feeling. Some of the ideas that a rapper has many others have. Rappers just express themselves through music. Some rockers are just as bad a rockers. Rappers can influence peole thought but not their actions. some people only listen to the music for their beat. Just because people listen to rap doesn't mean they think it is gospal. Rap is doesn't make people do anything so I don't think is is a major factor of moral decline.
Nicole Mulrooney
I think that any kind of music can create a bad rap! I have listened to every kind of music from, death metal, country, rap,alternitive, old rock n' roll, to opera. music is sometimes the only way one person can express themselves. I knew a man who killed himself while listening to country. all n' all i think it depends on the person, are they crazy? or are they just trying to get attention by sterotyping just one kind of music. besides, rock and rap are joining forces like Jay-Z and linkin Park with their duet of Encore. Everything is a political issue because people have nothing better to do then debate on the little things rathar than the big issiues in this country. It's ENTERTAINMENT!! where whould we be without it? probally worse off!!
thanx audrey p.
I'm not exactly sure how I feel about this topic. I guess you could say that I was raised in a sheltered home. My parents still ask me why the movie I'm going to go see is rated PG-13...and I am 17. Sometimes it can be frustrating. One thing in my household that my parents have always been strict about is our choice of music. My parents have always listened to light rock, christian music, or oldies. So, whenever my older sister got to the age where she wanted to listen to everything her friends were listening to, my parents weren't too happy. They told us not to listen to that "rap crap" because it didn't have good lyrics and it wasn't leading a christian life by listening to it. Recently I had some issues with my car so my dad took it to town one morning to fix it before I had to go to class. I guess I had a burnt CD in my CD player that had some rap and other songs that weren't edited. Needless to say, I got in a lot of trouble. He told me that it was bad for the heart and that I shouldn't listen to it. I felt terrible, but at the same time, I wondered why he got so upset about it. I've been listening to rap music since I was in elementary school, and it hasn't made me some terrible person yet. Sure, the lyrics aren't the best, but I haven't become a drug addict or shot anyone yet. I do not believe that music lyrics are the only factor in moral decline. Although that they might influence more vulnerable people, I think that if you make a wrong choice, that it isn't fair to the music industry to blame rappers for the moral decline. Obviously some of them made bad mistakes before they started rapping about it, so I don't think we can blame lyrics for their mistakes. Stuff happens in life, and I think people need to start taking responsiblity for it instead of passing it on to someone else.
Lindi Hettinger
I do not feel that rap music is predominant factor in the moral decline in America. I say this because the subjects that rappers rap about are real life situations (not always their life) that people all across America live through everyday, even here in Champaign-Urbana. With that said I do not feel that they are helping the situation beacuse instead of rapper about life and coming up with a soulution they glorify the life as if it's "cool"
so they become role models to a genreation of children without any.
Jamar Brown
I do not think we can blame our worlds falling to ashes on rap musicians. I do think they teach some kids wrong attitudes. They see celebrities getting away with crimes, and think they are right in following the footsteps. The responsibility lies on the person doing the crime, and the parents who did not try to deter it. Parents cannot always stop their children from doing wrong, but they can try to teach them the difference. I have seen many kids who are predominately on their own, parents thinking too much about themselves than the (latchkey) children. That is where I see the bad influences. I have heard some rap music and think a lot of it should not be allowed to be played, too much language. I only know two of the people you have listed. Darcy Cekander
I dont feel that rap music has anything to do with the predominant factors causing the moral decline in our country. I think that if you dont teach your kids morals that they will go out and learn themselves. I do think rappers and all musicians have something to do with the apperance of young people. I dont think rappers are more quilty of influencing young people. I think everyone likes different kinds of music, so I dont think any certain type of music has anymore influence on anyone. Aaron Royse
Although I don't always like the type of music that rappers come up with I don't think that anyone should blame a persons actions on someone else. Everyone has the choice to do what he or she wants, weather it be bad or good. It’s their own personal choice; it isn't the fault of the rappers that someone might not choose to make the right decisions.
Maria Shallenberger
The debate over music causing the moral decline in our country has been going on for generations over the past 80+ years. Back in the 1920's in the south the delta blues were born through Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Blind Willie Johnson, to name a few. Anyone who either played the blues or listened to the blues were considered to be under the influence of the devil because of the association between the blues and juke joints.
About three decade's later, music was blamed for the same thing when Rock and Roll was first introduced to kids through Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, and others (all legends in their own right.)
Every generation after has been blamed as well.
So, I could see how some could blame rap for causing the moral decline in our country, however, I don't.
If someone imitates a rappers lyrics, the rapper should be held somewhat responsible, but to what accountability I don't know.
I don't think that guitly is the right word for the influence they provide for young people. Young people are always looking for someone or something to look up to, and when they find something they like they tend to immitate it. So no, they aren't more guilty, but more or less equally responsible.
I really like your question, and I hope my response will help you.
Pat Mahoney
I listen to rap music sometimes and it doesn't really change my views on anything. Many people like to listen to rap because of the beat. That's what I like most about it. I'm not sure if it's necessarily causing the moral decline in our country because I don't know a majority of people that listen to it, let alone their actions after listening to it. I don't think that rappers are any more guilty of influencing young people than rockers or any other hard core artists. The writers of music are really usually the only ones that know what they mean by the words they write. It all depends on how people comprehend what they are listening to.
~*Amanda Wasowitz*~
I believe that all music is written to express some kind of emotion. I think that rappers should have every right to rap about whatever they want. I'm sure you can find lyrics that are just as bad in a song that isn't rap. i think rap can sometimes influence more vulnerable people. But for someone who is set in their ways, rap music isn't going to hurt them. Sometimes I think that some kids are beginning to listen to rap at a very young age. I don't think rappers have had any more of a negative influence than any of the people you listed. I will admit, none of it is good wholesome music, but sometimes that's just what you want to listen to.
Sorry, I know its sort of jumpy and hard to understand.
Rebecca
This is my response.
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