Raps Bad Reputation Analysis

"To f**k with me you need a reservation." is a famous song lyrics from Big Sean. Most people would look at these song lyrics and just think “oh well it's just a song”, but it's not, it's more than that, certain rap songs can be very hurtful and mean towards people especially woman. Looking at the other side of it, there are a lot of rap songs that are portraying good messages to people. “I took my bruises, I took my lumps, fell down and got right back up” famous lyrics by Eminem. These rap songs portray good and bad things, it just depends on how you look at it. Taking a look at this article, we will look at “How Hip-Hop/Rap music is influencing today's young listeners”, and we will be looking at the good and bad sides of rap music. In the article “Raps bad Reputation”, Gina M. Wingood, assistant professor in the Rollins School of Public Health, found that teenage girls who listen to and

In this same article, Gina M. Wingwood, assistant professor in the rollins schools of public health, found that teenage girls who listen to and watch rap videos frequently- more than 14 hours a week- were three times more likely to hit a teacher and more than 2.5 times as likely to have been arrested than girls who aren't such devoted rap fans. The 522 adolescent African American women followed in the year-long study also were twice as likely to have multiple sex partners and at least 1.5 times more likely to get a sexually transmitted disease, drink, and use drugs” Girl's who are listening to this kind of music, are more likely to do things like hit a teacher, and more likely to have multiple sex partners. In another article, “Degrading Songs Hurt Women” the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette found that the Rand Corporation released a study in August 2006 which shows “that the more often teens listen to sexually degrading songs - marked by obscenities and stereotypes of women as sex objects and men as sexual predators - the likelier they are to have sex at an