does hiphop effect children more negatively then

Charlamagne is a certified c*nt.

I agree with a ton of sh*t he says .. But lately he's been talking out of his ass ..

He's been pandering of late.

The Only argument he can throw is that hiphop is more accessible but the advent of the internet blows the presumed effects of hiphop on the psych out of proportion.

Hiphop like jazz is a scapegoat for people who don't want to address the root cause


Edited by afrokock - Sep 04 2014 at 7:53am

lmao, i kept sounding out effect and affect, and for some reason i stuck with effect cause of a thread i saw on 50 cent messing up the word. dont judge me

I think hip hop does play a role in setting expectations for children. It helps illustrate social templates that kids want to follow. Environment and racism and poverty, yes all of that too, but it's worth mentioning that hip hop is very influential to growing people . Maybe more than any other music genre (aside from country) it teaches as well as entertains.  It teaches people how to talk, how to dress, how to think.




Edited by Random Thoughts - Sep 04 2014 at 9:02am

I absolutely think so. I used to say that the media doesn't raise your children, you do. But once they reach the age that they strive to be accepted by their peers, all that logic may not apply any more

My aunts a 5th grade teacher and one year she had to sit down with two of her black boys. They had called one of the darker girls ugly because of her skin tone in front of the entire class. The little girl was so hurt. My aunt said she had never seen a student cry like that. When she told the boys parents, one of them were shocked. They said they always taught their son that black women of all shades are beautiful and to respect them.

But when he gets to school and all his friends are reciting misogynistic lyrics - then what? I don't know how I'm going to buffer peer pressure when my son gets that age aside from talking his ear off about it.

I definitely agree that the content of music has changed. Conscious rap was popular and mainstream. Not so anymore.

also we keep talking about conscious rap

lets bear in mind that conscious rap as a movement was dead by 1991 pretty much

we havent had a conscious movement in rap on larger platform since the beginning of 1992 and then only a few groups managed to peek through like arrested development

the conscious rap movement's been dead longer than it was alive.



the rawkus and koch era couldnt even make that much of a significant impact