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
First ship'em dope and let 'em deal the brothers, give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each other" (http://lyricspost. well that's the way it is" (http://www. an relate to the message of the rap music. Let change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. Give the crack to the kids who the hell care one less ugly mouth on the welfare. As Tupac go on further in the song, Tupac said that "I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere, unless we share with each other. We gotta start makin' changes, learn to see me as a brother, instead of two distant strangers" (http://www. Tupac Shakur is encouraging is listeners to make a change in their life to make the world a better place.
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