Is Hip Hop A Bad Influence

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Is Hip Hop a Bad Influence to Young People Do people really think that hip hop is bad? Certain people think that hip hop is bad because of what the rappers rap about and this essay is going to prove them wrong. Hip hop is a good influence on young people. Not all Hip Hop objectifies women If you think that all Hip Hop call women names, you're wrong. Beethoven composed a song titled death to all women, but classical music isn't bad. What about Heavy Metal that speaks of Satan that doesn't make rock bad (Is hip Hop a Bad Influence). Every genre has different things they talk about like heavy metal, they talk about satan. And country and pop talk about breakups and other emotional things. It ranges in severity across the globe but in almost every culture and civilization women have been systematically oppressed, degraded and objectified (Is Hip Hop a Bad Influence). It’s not just hip hop other genres talk about women and talking bad about them. In all fairness, there have been a handful of pro-woman hip-hop songs. But such anthems have been few and far between, and their messages too-often ignored. Take, for example, Queen Latifah's 1993 hip-hop classic "U.N.I.T.Y," in which she defends herself from street harassment with the lyric, …show more content…

Even women make rap music and don’t talk about themselves badly. And if you place the blame on the whole genre, then you can't listen to any music, because it all has that ugly sister. (Debate.org). You can’t listen to any song because every song has something weird in it because of what every song talks

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