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
an relate to the message of the rap music. 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. Although Tupac Shakur rap about "sellin' crack to the kid, I gotta get paid, ... well that's the way it is" (http://www.lyricspost.com), listeners might get the wrong message. Later on in the song, Tupac says, "we gotta make a change... It time for us as a people to start makin some changes. Let change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do, to survive" (http://www.lyricspost.com). In order to get the right message of Tupac 's song, we must listen to the lyric
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