“What is the effect of Hip Hop (Rap) Music on Violence” Abstract: Music has played major roles in one’s culture. Many individuals listen to classical, blues, contemporary, gospel, jazz as well as music which portray the lives of the underprivileged depicting the living condition and environment in which they live, especially African Americans living in the inner city of metropolitan areas. Hip-Hop has had an overwhelming influence on all ethnicities and communities across the world. Hip-Hop is more than music it is a culture bringing awareness to societal plights which plaques communities. Just as songs were use as codes to free those in bondage, Hip-Hop has influenced and uplifted disenfranchised peoples the world over. Speaking up for generations and providing a voice to groups of people attempting to ensure that the marginalization of people that are not influential are recognized in society and their voice heard. It is important for us to realize that the content of Hip-Hop music provides a mean to achieve individual identity and cultural integration. It is also important to note that most hip-hop artists are using the music that they make as a canvas to portray the realities of their environment. To say that hip-hop causes violence is ignorant and intellectually lazy. Violence in music spreads across music and genres. There are numerous country songs about guns and fighting in bars. There are numerous rock and roll songs that play on the same theme. So why don’t these genres of music get the same reputation and flack for violence that hip hop does? The answer is complex and complicated, but the easy answer is we must place blame somewhere. The easiest target for blame is often in entertainment, whether it be movies or video games. On a deeper level the fact that the Hip-Hop is predominantly a black genre made by young blacks in inner city areas plagued with violence makes it an easy target. This often neglects that fact that most Hip-hop songs are about having a good time and are overwhelmingly positive. Hip hop causes violence no more than gospel music converts people to Christianity, or no more than classical music causes people to pick up instruments. .

1. “What is the effect of Hip Hop (Rap)
Music on Violence”
Abstract:
Music has played major roles in one’s culture. Many individuals
listen to classical, blues, contemporary, gospel, jazz as well as
music which portray the lives of the underprivileged depicting
the living condition and environment in which they live,
especially African Americans living in the inner city of
metropolitan areas. Hip-Hop has had an overwhelming influence
on all ethnicities and communities across the world. Hip-Hop is
more than music it is a culture bringing awareness to societal
plights which plaques communities. Just as songs were use as
codes to free those in bondage, Hip-Hop has influenced and
uplifted disenfranchised peoples the world over. Speaking up
for generations and providing a voice to groups of people
attempting to ensure that the marginalization of people that are
not influential are recognized in society and their voice heard.
It is important for us to realize that the content of Hip-Hop
music provides a mean to achieve individual identity and
cultural integration. It is also important to note that most hip-
hop artists are using the music that they make as a canvas to
portray the realities of their environment. To say that hip-hop
causes violence is ignorant and intellectually lazy. Violence in
music spreads across music and genres. There are numerous
country songs about guns and fighting in bars. There are
numerous rock and roll songs that play on the same theme. So
why don’t these genres of music get the same reputation and
flack for violence that hip hop does? The answer is complex and
complicated, but the easy answer is we must place blame
somewhere. The easiest target for blame is often in
entertainment, whether it be movies or video games. On a
deeper level the fact that the Hip-Hop is predominantly a black
genre made by young blacks in inner city areas plagued with

2. violence makes it an easy target. This often neglects that fact
that most Hip-hop songs are about having a good time and are
overwhelmingly positive. Hip hop causes violence no more than
gospel music converts people to Christianity, or no more than
classical music causes people to pick up instruments.