hip-hop music entails, which tends to be motivational . This motivational effect is attractive to the teenagers whose minds are easily swayed by propaganda and fleeting appeals of immediate gratification. Teenagers are often those whose sense of morality is ambiguous; thus, they commit cries without the accompanying sense of guilt. Many teens and children don’t even know that the music itself is affecting their lives, for example, their was of thinking and their actions.Every New Yorker who reads the papers knows that the teenagers who allegedly raped and brutalized a woman jogger in Central Park last year entertained themselves after their arrest by collectively chanting the lyrics to “Wild Thing,” a popular record by long time Los Angeles rapper Tone-Loc (Teachout 60) According to Aldrige, the second justification for rhetorical study is that there are signs that rap moves audiences to action. Critics of the music argue that rap lyrics in which advocate actually produce violence by members of the audience. “Violence promotes the importance of lyrics in a rap song. Regardless of whether or not the rappers actually prompt others to do violence, the perceptions that the words have the power to motivate action justifies further study” (Aldrige et al. 105-6). Teens and children posses the idea of “Monkey see, monkey do” because they believe that if their favorite artist is doing something, whether violent or not, they will do the act regardless.As said in the earlier paragraph, children adorn their favorite rap or hip-hop artists as their idols and follow along in their footsteps. Teenagers and children become heavily attached to the artist’s beliefs pressed in their minds apply it to their own lives and may end up doing or copying the same the same violent act mentioned or influenced by the artist. Some examples of cultural aspects that rappers have influenced upon children is the rap and ...
