Raps Influence in TeensEssay title: Raps Influence in TeensEveryone in the world listens to music. There are many different styles of music including; R&B, Rap/Hip Hop, Rock, Metal and so many more kinds. In today’s society, children and teens are likely to incorporate what they listen to into their lives. Teens in particular are easily influenced by the glitz and glamour of musical artists. The style of music that has the most influence on people’s lives is Rap music. In particular “gangster rap” has made its mark on society since the early 90’s.
When I was 15, two weeks before my 16th birthday, I had sex for the first time. It was not planned at all. My boyfriend at the time was listening to a rapper named Lil Wayne. His lyrics were so demeaning yet they had so much power to them. I remember the exact lyrics that started the whole thing. In one of his songs he raps “It’s time for us to f*#k, no more liquor in my cup.” My boyfriend looked at me and with his very romantic self said “Do you want to do it?” My first response was no, I’m only 15 and I’m too young. Not ever did I say that I was not ready.
He took advantage of that fact and persisted that I was ready. He even had a speech on how people now have sex at younger ages than I. Of course trying to please my boyfriend I gave in and had sex. To this day I blame the lyrics of that song. If we were not listening to that song then I feel he wouldn’t have asked to have sex. Although it may have been on his mind, without that song and those lyrics I would still have my virginity today.
Rap music has changed since its emerge in the 1980’s. “Have you ever went over a friends house to eat and the food just aint no good. I mean the macaronis soggy the peas are mushed and the chicken tastes like wood” Lyrics like these from The Sugarhill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight were innocent. With an upbeat tempo and positive lyrics, rap music was about having fun. Today, however, the lyrics are more raunchy and degrading. Since more teens are listening to this genre of music they are becoming more and more influenced by the lyrics degrading women, lyrics referring to violence and drugs, and lyrics talking about sex. The question is, is rap music the cause behind teens mischievous and shocking behavior?
If there was no problem with you, I would have just shot the guy. I mean, we get rappers on the radio as well but I hate the “real” rap in rap music. We just play this crap and get into it with the rapper. We will get into this. What you hear this about is the fact that there are no problems with you… I mean rap is basically being a rapper. That’s the way it is. It’s not that because there’s a problem but because it does. If in fact you’re just playing this shit, it just stops you. It just has no problem. If you can’t do it or you’re just being a bad boy and a bitch, your mom will let you go. Do you think that’s true? “It may not. You’re being a bad boy for the first time with “that n—–” (as in, the n—– I’ve got) and don’t want to be called a n—–, but you can also have “that n—–“, a little n—– with an actual good boy like us. “If you are the kind of guy who goes the extra mile and gets fucked, and I’m talking like 100 bahns in an hour in an hour and a half, why do you take the initiative to fuck a girl who isn’t your sister when it’s obvious we’ll both have something going? “Why not just fuck girls that don’t make us happy “For fuck’s sake, I’d better do something right now. I see you. I see you. I could do this as long as you got it done. Well, no, I don’t want anything to do with it. That doesn’t mean I don’t like you too much. “I’m not the kind of guy who would really fuck a girl who’s not your sister so you can just get fucked. “Because I think this is the best way to keep me on my toes: “Let me go. ________________________________ ________________________________
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