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

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Let change the way we eat, let’s change the way we live and let’s change the way we treat each other.

Stanley Crouch concludes that rap “encourage young people toward illiteracy, brutishness, hatred of women, whorishness and mindless materialism,” while Authur Lawrence Cribbs, Jr. Tupac Shakur is encouraging is listeners to make a change in their life to make the world a better place. Give the crack to the kids who the hell care one less ugly mouth on the welfare. The song do talk about selling drug to the kids and killing each other, however Tupac Shakur is not encouraging his listener to sell drug or kill anyone. Tupac Shakur is stating the problem what he see is going on in today society. I disagree that the middle-class white consumers purchase the record to fantasize the transgression of drugs, guns, and sex without the risk. I disagree with David Samuel statement because the middle-class white listeners purchase Tupac’record because they can relate to the message on that record. We gotta start makin’ changes, learn to see me as a brother, instead of two distant strangers” (http://www. Tupac is stating that there a problem with drugs and violence in today society and he is encouraging his listener that we need to change in order to decrease that problem.

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