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Originally posted by Lindz928
I would guess that the girl who originally said that wasn't trying to place the blame only on hip-hop either. But I wasn't there so I could be wrong.
I think most of today's rap music is terrible. I am disgusted by 50-cent and won't listen to him anymore.
I do think that musicians as popular as rap artists are should stop and think about the effect that they are having on today's youth. They might want to pretend that kids don't try to emmulate them, but they truly do. And glorifying money and drugs, and disrespecting women is not a good model to show these kids.
And almost certainly someone will come up with the arguement of "if parents don't want their kids to listen to rap, then they shouldn't let them." Personally, I think that arguement is crap. My parents were very strict when I was growing up and wouldn't let me listen to rap.... But I still found ways to do it. Kids will find a way.
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I agree what you said. In Memphis, a 15 year old boy faced charges for punching a 14 year old girl in the back of the head. She had brain surgery to remove a chip in the back of the skull. She's currently in critical condition.
Rap music is everywhere. Somehow, somewhere, kids will listen to it. We can't monitor our children 24/7, but parents need to do their jobs. When I get to be a parent, I will raise my child(ren) the right way. I may be liberal in political views, but I will raise my child(ren) with strong, conservative, Christian family values. Now I will not raise them to be Republicans, just act conservative.