Hip-Hop’s Beneficial Influences on Teens

Hip-Hop’s Beneficial Influences

Hip Hop is a genre of music that was born around 70’s. This type of music doesn’t really involve singing but words that are spoken. Hip Hop is in a poetic form with simple phrases and it usually has end rhyme. The music genre known as Hip-Hop produces positive effects on teenagers of this generation.

Hip Hop is this great form of music that is very much poetic and almost hypnotizing. It uses old classics of music that people already love and throws funky looped beats over them that make for an ingenious masterpiece of music. It is pure fun and has singing along words easy for anybody to remember and repeat. The best part is you do not have to be able to sing for it to sound good; you could basically talk. It was poetry that talked about everyday events that everybody goes through in life. This style of music formed in the early 70’s. It formed and developed from several different cultures such as jazz, rock, tap, and American and Latino cultures. It is a form of dance that is very energetic.

Hip Hop was the industry that basically brought about the phrase “no homo” to let people know that you are not gay. This happened because they did not accept gays. Now Hip Hop is slowly becoming less and less homophobic. They have artists such as Azeila Banks and Kreayshawn that “came out of the closet.” Lil B is endorsing to love freely. Jay-Z, the most eminent MC alive, who once flung “F” bombs (“You’s the fag model for Karl Kani”), granted his most significant cosign ever- gay marriage- on the heels of President Obama declaring Support (Garraud 89). The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender rights are making a major headway. Frank Ocean posted on his tumblr page on July 4th that his first love was actua...

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...and grind. It gives teens a “can’t stop, won’t stop”. Hip Hop gives teen’s life meaning and light in dark times. Over all of this, Hip Hop brings in a real diverse crowd, which brings many different races and types of people together. Bringing different people together can cause peace which is an amazing effect. Hip-Hop produces many superb and splendid effects on teens of this generation.

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