Do you think rap music is good for urban black youth?

[BigBoss]

:confusedshrug:

[nathanjizzle]

absolutely not. these gangster rappers reap benefits at the destruction of their own community, just like drug dealers do.

[Patrick Chewing]

No, it's not good. This has been known for the last 30 years.

[Joyner82reload]

Well let's see; it teaches them to do drugs, murder, beat women, hate the police, and aspire to spend as much money as possible on worthless shit.

[Megabox!]

Some, not all. Not all rap music is about killing, robbing and disrespecting women.

[Patrick Chewing]

Some, not all. Not all rap music is about killing, robbing and disrespecting women.


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[DonDadda59]

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Will Smith don

[DeuceWallaces]

Nice to see our resident racists and morons checking in for an unbiased opinion on urban culture.

[Patrick Chewing]

Nice to see our resident racists and morons checking in for an unbiased opinion on urban culture.


What are you babbling about??


Stay out of this thread, white boy.

[CelticBaller]

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god he sucked

[~primetime~]

In general it is bad for all youth IMO.

You can find positive rap but it is heavily overshadowed by "I'm rich, I fcked your bitch" yolo rap.

[Patrick Chewing]

In all honesty, it depends on your financial situation and the situation at home.

I grew up listening to ICE-T, Geto Boyz, Spice 1, and 2 Live Crew and I never felt compelled to mimic that lifestyle or to become a thug or join a gang. I don't think there is enough positive rap influence (i.e. Will Smith) in the rap industry to sway young, impressionable blacks.

Society glorifies guys like Tupac and groups like N.W.A. that glorified violence.

That's a shame though because black artists in the 60's and 70's mainly sang about love and harmony. The 80's and the 90's destroyed any hope for love and harmony and here we are in 2015 worse than ever before.

[DavisWarriorsFan]

In all honesty, it depends on your financial situation and the situation at home.

I grew up listening to ICE-T, Geto Boyz, Spice 1, and 2 Live Crew and I never felt compelled to mimic that lifestyle or to become a thug or join a gang. I don't think there is enough positive rap influence (i.e. Will Smith) in the rap industry to sway young, impressionable blacks.

Society glorifies guys like Tupac and groups like N.W.A. that glorified violence.

That's a shame though because black artists in the 60's and 70's mainly sang about love and harmony. The 80's and the 90's destroyed any hope for love and harmony and here we are in 2015 worse than ever before.
2Pac glorified violence? What's next? Rakim glorified violence?

[KNOW1EDGE]

It is undisputably bad for urban youth of any color, but especially those living in impoverished areas without proper guidance.

[L.Kizzle]

For simple minded, easily influenced people yes. Same can be said about violent films.

[Kblaze8855]

For the most part....the crazy kids I knew grew up to act crazy. The normal kids grew up to be normal. We all played the same music. 2 of my close friends coming up are in jail doing 15+ years....we all sat in the same rooms listening to NWA together.

The "urban youth" of the 70s had classic soul, pop, and funk records to listen to...then they grew up and were the adults of the crack and gang boom in the 80s.

All that Stevie Wonder and Jackson 5 didnt seem to stop anything.

Im sure Larry Hoover listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye....

[L.Kizzle]

For the most part....the crazy kids I knew grew up to act crazy. The normal kids grew up to be normal. We all played the same music. 2 of my close friends coming up are in jail doing 15+ years....we all sat in the same rooms listening to NWA together.

The "urban youth" of the 70s had classic soul, pop, and funk records to listen to...then they grew up and were the adults of the crack and gang boom in the 80s.

All that Stevie Wonder and Jackson 5 didnt seem to stop anything.

Im sure Larry Hoover listened to a lot of Marvin Gaye....
Lol agree,

Pretty sure a lot of people who grew up listening to the Monkee's and the Rascals became criminals.

[KNOW1EDGE]

For simple minded, easily influenced people yes. Same can be said about violent films.

AKA kids

[ROCSteady]

In general it is bad for all youth IMO.

You can find positive rap but it is heavily overshadowed by "I'm rich, I fcked your bitch" yolo rap.


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Damn you're getting old :coleman:

[tmacattack33]

In all honesty, it depends on your financial situation and the situation at home.

I grew up listening to ICE-T, Geto Boyz, Spice 1, and 2 Live Crew and I never felt compelled to mimic that lifestyle or to become a thug or join a gang. I don't think there is enough positive rap influence (i.e. Will Smith) in the rap industry to sway young, impressionable blacks.

Society glorifies guys like Tupac and groups like N.W.A. that glorified violence.

That's a shame though because black artists in the 60's and 70's mainly sang about love and harmony. The 80's and the 90's destroyed any hope for love and harmony and here we are in 2015 worse than ever before.

NWA and Tupac were not glorifying it.

And most of the ones in the beginning (around 1988-1993) weren't either.

The problem was that some people (including you it seems) don't realize that, so young people thought they were...and then it (being gangsta) became a whole fashion in itself.

[Hit_Em]

a bunch of balding middle age white men discussing the problem with hiphop and its influence on black youth :lol man i love ish you couldnt make this shit up

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

If someone has a catalogue featuring Nas "I Can" "One Mic", alongside Immortal Technique's "No Strings On Me," Eminem's "I Am", and the thousands of other songs embedded with brilliant lyrics; and yes there are THOUSANDS of them, then surely one can utilize the hook as a background tone for their everyday fiscal-acquiring affairs.

And of course chaps like Chewing would state "glorify violence," when even a child simply being there can rightfully deduce that their motives were in depicting reality as it was, the theme of Ghaib (aka preserving one's Honor) and enough... stimuli to spark a social movement. Is that not what Picasso's Guernica was. But then again Picasso was more brilliant than his critics, so who knows?

This curriculum would necessitate the inclusion of Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad's thoughts of course.

And meditation courses should be implemented to develop a powerful inner world in which the external circumstances take a back seat. Alongside nutrition, and actual belief in the results garnered through diligence. It's a tragedy that many mothers were dosed on Similac in addition to not being able to have produce nor the requisite peace and silence that is ever-so fertile for strengthening one's Akl.




Granted, the corniness would turn off nearly everybody except the most secure and/or ridiculous people, but it'll be a step in the right direction.

[The Iron Sheik]

itt: a bunch of non-black people who don't give a shit about black people debating what's good for black people