Rap Changes Behavior
Rap, particularly “gangsta rap,” is perhaps the most controversial music there has ever been. Stanley Crouch concludes that rap “encourage young people toward illiteracy, brutishness, hatred of women, whorishness and mindless materialism,” while Authur Lawrence Cribbs, Jr. claims that gangster rap is a “violation of the dignity of African-American culture and as exploitation by large record companies making a profit from racial stereotyping.” David Samuels believes that rap is a “representation of a ‘foreign, sexually charged, and criminal underworld.’ Rap music offers middle-class white listeners their exotic ‘other’ in a prepackage, easily consumable form, providing the vicarious thrills of transgression (drugs, guns, and sex) without the risk” (270). Based on my observation, I disagree with David Samuels because I think the middle-class white consumers listen to rap music because they c
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Approximate Word count = 604
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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