ed House Party.
B. Will Smith became the "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
C. Rappers turned actors in "New Jack City," and "Boyz in the Hood." Glorifying the street life of "gangstas."
VIII. Rap proves its marketability.
A. Tupac Shukar starred in Juice, with a hit soundtrack.
B. The Source had begun to market the "new sneakers," and gear for streetwear.
IV. Hip-Hop has become a money hungry market, that has no concern for the children that it once broke out to protect.
A. Hard-core thugs like Jay-Z have gone from BET, to Nickelodeon.
B. Sean Combs, has started a brand new way to market to audiences of all ages, not having any concerning that his music is inappropriate to the children that he is trying to market to.
C. It isn't about the music anymore, hip hop started out as mixing beats and lyrics over old ones.
1. It's now a way to market to all ages, start new trends.
2. It's exposing children that are way to young to understand about violence, sex, and drugs.
D. When stars of one culture and scene expose children of a different upbringing it creates havoc.
1. It glorifies violence, the use of drugs, and twists the images of money.
Hip-Hop: The Marketing of a New Culture
Hip-hop was started to lead the youth of today in a positive direction. Today hip-hop has lost its original goal of being a positive influence in peoples lives, and it has just become a way to market violence.
Hip-hop was born in the west Bronx of New York in the early 1970s. It was born as a way for inner city kids without a lot of options to express their anger at society through music.(Margolis) One explanation for the birth of hip-hop, as explained by author Ronin Ro, was that it was partly created in the South Bronx to counter act his birthplace's gang violence:
Hip-Hop was seen as a form that would inspire political change; we all believed that rap performers break...