like this what respect would women have. Some say, "if we don't have respect for our women, why should anyone else?" (Raspberry A21). Do these rappers think that they own women and can treat them any way they want to? If this is the way some people think, that they own women and can disrespect them then what footsteps are the children going to follow in. Young children and adults, 14, 15 and 16 years of age, which listen and memorize these rap songs, think that it is acceptable behavior. "Gangsta rap" is hardly the only source of violence, but it is a potent one. Not only is the music violent but the rappers lifestyle is also. Many rappers have rap sheets and young people see that and say, "hey, their rich and money talks." Today most young people think that if a person is rich and famous they can get away with anything. The Chronic, an album by Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg, has many explicit lyrics and unnecessary foulmouthing. In one song they say, "that if you f--- with Dre you f--- with death row...", more or less saying that if anyone messes with them they will have to worry about everyone that is with Death Row Records. In the same song they tell a woman, referring to her as a bitch, to yell-187 (police code for someone that has been killed). In another song they ask anther black man why he has been talking crap about them, he says it was not he. Then they put a gun in his mouth asking him, "what's wrong can't talk with a gun in your mouth?...Do you know Lucifer?", he replies,"no",and they tell him, "well you're about to meet him"(Rap). All of the songs on this album contain foulmouth language, violent and sexually explicit lyrics, drugs and misogyny. Is this the kind of music that young children should be able to listen to? Rappers say that their music depicts the harsh reality of life in the hood. To these rappers, people dying young and going to jail is an everyday thing (Marriott 75). Tupak says that violence is all we know an...
