Rap music is a "genre of rhythm and blues music that consists of rhythmic vocals declaimed over musical accompaniment. The accompaniment generally consists of electric drum beats combined with digitally isolated sound bites from other musical recordings." Rap music has been categorized as, "A cultural evolution of the Black oral tradition and contemporary resistance rhetoric."
             The Influence of Rap Music Rap music has many negative influences in our culture and society today. Over time rap music has developed a lot of controversy in many ways, especially amongst parental units and their teenagers. One controversy is woman and how they are degraded in the lyrics. Another reason that Rap music causes problems today is by the way that they portray drugs, alcohol and money to be something they are not. In Rap music violence is talked about frequently to be a normal part of life. The criterion to bad rap music is explicit lyrics and negative influences on the young people of today. They talk about murder, rape, and assault as though they were okay. Almost everybody and everything that has to do with rap music is associated with drugs and alcohol. What are these rap lyrics encouraging young people to do? They cause them to do negative things resulting in aggressive behavior. It encourages young people to be gangsters, curse, fight, and kill people. It promotes sex, violence, and drug and alcohol use and abuse. It even degrades women, and speaks of violent crimes towards them. Rap music promotes violent and hostile behavior in young listeners. Some people argue that rap music provides valuable information to young listeners. They feel that it tells the story of the black man's struggle. Some also feel that it describes life in the eyes of a black person.
             Rap artists such as Eminem (Marshall Mathers), Ice Tea, and others have reveled in the controversy raised by their explicit and violent lyrics. According to Fiel
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