Drugs And Drugs

Another era in popular music that illustrates the tie that draws drugs and pop music together is in the modern day hip-hop subcultures. Historically, the main drug that has commonly been associated with hip-hop is marijuana. Today, however, hip-hop has been changed as well as the drugs that are being rapped about in hip-hop songs. There have been movements, such as the Bay Area centered “hyphy” movement and the Los Angeles centered jerk movement, within the genre of hip hop that are influenced by the drug MDMA, known on the streets as ecstasy. With lyrics that reference the drug and describe the actions of those that are under the influence it, these

Illegal drug links in music has doubled in the years 1979-1997. “There has been a specific jump in the mention of marijuana and marijuana-stuffed cigars, or “blunts”, and noted marijuana association in those songs with creativity, wealth and status.”[2] In the early 1990’s the percentage of rap songs with substance use increase to 45 percent and continued to increase to 69 percent between the years 1994-1997. A study led by Dr. Brian Primack showed that out of the billboards 279 most popular songs of 2005, 77 percent of the rap songs portrayed drug related lyrics and substance abuse. He also found that out of the 279 songs, only 4 were anti-use but

Music is important to everybody, we all have that one song that makes us happy or sad just from listening to one line in the song, but what if the song made you violent. Lyrics in music could be the reason for violent tendencies in people’s behavior. There have been studies shown that lyrics in some music promote violence and crimes started because of musical influence. Through all genres of music, if closely inspected, the lyrics show a hint of violence.

Part of why is that cool has become the dominant theme of children’s marketing. Part of the genius of cool is its versatility.” Tara Parker-Pope writes in an article in the New York Times called, “Under the Influence of …Music?” she states, “Only 9 percent of pop songs had lyrics relating to drugs or alcohol. The number jumped to 14 percent for rock songs, 20 percent for R&B and hip-hop songs, 36 percent for country songs and 77 percent for rap songs.” I cannot believe some of the superstars that will record lyrics equivalent to this. Whatever happened to the morals Americans found acceptable to have in this country? That is what Americans would love for people of influence to explain to

Glorifying is a issue as well Brownback gives an example of the impact glorifying has, “ Record companies that promote violent music implicitly push the idea that more people should listen to, purchase, and enjoy the sounds of slaughter. When MTV name Marilyn Manson the best new artist of the year, they held Manson up as an example to be aspired and emulated. Promoting violence as entertainment corrodes our nation within.”

Doug E. Fresh, a popular beat-boxer in rap music today, has been quoted saying, “Hip-hop is supposed to uplift and create, to educate people on a larger level and to make a change.” Although this is the original intention of hip-hop music, public opinion currently holds the opposite view. Since the 1970’s musical artists have changed the face of hip-hop and rap and worldwide, people – mostly teens—have been striving to emulate certain artists and their lyrics, which has created negative stereotypes for hip-hop music and also for those who choose to listen to it. With vulgar lyrics referencing drugs, alcohol, sex, and aggression, it’s no wonder these stereotypes exist. However, is music really the direct cause of how teens act,

Many artists throughout the Hip Hop industry have always “kept it real”. “If any difference between Hip Hop of today and 1980s can be felt, it’s enhanced need to ‘keep it real’ or represent one’s upbringing and daily realities, even when that reality involves violence, prostitution, etc, that is direct influence of Gangsta Rap” (Ramanand, Elizabeth). This shows that no matter how bad it is, they keep the reality real. That could show teens what it is and that it is bad and to not do it. Hip Hop artists also keep it real by doing their own thing and starting their own trends. Corporate executives look to Hip Hop for the next big thing. This is real good for promotions. It is the best brand building industry in the world. They

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Gangster rappers always encourage sex or demeaning women, where some songs are merely produced with the purpose of disgracing women. Subject matters in a majority of gangster rap lyrics usually deal with curious situations, as in the portrayal of women as dirty sex toys with no value other than pleasure through looks and intercourse and even inventing words, such as “bennett,” “poontang,” and “thots.” Furthermore, drugs are another topic widely spoken by gangster rappers, where the songs contents even deeply influences people to try drugs, due to the perception that their favorite performer thinks it’s cool. For example, Eminem 's hit song "My Fault" made mushrooms more popular than they had ever been with the public, due to the adulation of how drugs are fun; furthermore, it also engendered new words like “coco” and “purp” into mainstream language use. The last and the most common element of gangster rap is crime. Nearly every gangster rap song mentions a robbery or illegitimate act of vandalism, to which these songs give other people, especially younger adults negative ideas, putting the thoughts of committing any particular in the minds of any gullible person.

Songs such as “John” by Lil Wayne and Rick Ross, and “Crack” by 2 Chainz influence behaviors such as shooting people and selling drugs. “John” talks about how they have an AK-47 in their trunk and Lil Wayne says load it up and “hit them where it hurt.” Later in the song Lil Wayne says, “You know the rule, kill them all and keep moving.” This means just shoot and act like nothing happened. In 2 Chainz’s song he talks about how he is standing on the corners selling crack, cooking it in his kitchen, and has over one thousand grams of it on him. The future generations of America are listening to this stuff, and it is corrupting their minds.

"Follow me and do exactly what the song says, smoke weed, take pills, drop out of school, kill people, drink, and jump behind the wheel like it was still legal”. ("Eminem – Role Model." Genius. N.P., n.d. Web. 02 Mar. 2016). These influential words were sung in a single released by Hip-Hop singer/songwriter Eminem. For an artist who has sold over 100 million records worldwide. Is it safe to say individuals of all ages must have heard portions of his work, including the youth. The music history have promoting negativity all over the years. The music is highly popular and influential to minors in this day and age. The music is known as one other than Hip-Hop. Lyrics of common Hip-Hop artists impacting young children due to the promotion of violence,

Dr Warburton also points out that the continued rise in popularity of rap, hip hop and heavy metal music is of concern as the lyrics often glorify aggression (especially against women), violent sexual acts (rather than sentiments about someone you care about), anti social themes, murder and thoughts of suicide. In 2005 90% of the most popular rap songs spoke about alcohol and drug use, content has progressed to a disturbing level since then with lyrics now describing rape and

About $800 Billion worth of drugs are sold every year. The drug industry has affected agriculture in various ways. While some may think that drug industry has done good for the agriculture industry. It has also had repercussions. Drugs not only affect our ecosystem, it also affects us human beings, animals, and plants. It’s similar to a cycle, we start off with the ecosystem, which then leads to plants, then the animals, to human beings.

Many rappers including the late "Notorious B.I.G" and "2Pac", two very well known rappers, made innumerable references to the use and sale of drugs, along with the profit to be made, in their lyrics. In the song "Sky's the Limit", the Notorious B.I.G raps about his school days, being a young drug dealer, rapping "Buy a dime [of marijuana], smoke five, sell the rest for 20/ a young nigga making far too much money/ I was the only 8th grader with a mobile [phone]." Other rappers have based their entire careers on drugs like rapper "Redman" who is an open and proud marijuana smoker and promoter. In an interview in "Source" Magazine, he stated "I spend about 18-20,000 dollars last year on [marijuana]". He makes many references to the drug in just about every song he is featured in. While all this is going on, you can see these rappers sporting the newest clothes, the shiniest diamonds and the fastest cars. Rappers, unlike other high paid professionals, have a reputation for flaunting and bragging about their money. Music videos are the perfect stage to do this and rappers take full advantage of the opportunity with $7,000,000 + videos containing cars, special effects and in one video, a $200,000 platinum-gold tank, believe it or not. The clear message here is that power, wealth and stardom are accompanied by violence and corruption. These few examples don't even begin to crack the surface, but

One should believe that explicit music contributes to one of the major issues our society faces in America and that’s gun control. The suicide rate in 2017 is at 62.7 percent just from the use of a gun, while in Chicago there have been 500 homicides. The issues we face as a nation, can be better controlled if the music being put out to people aren't so gang related and if guns were more controlled. One should feel our music today in America could have some impacts on violence because of all the killings and gang violence they mention in their music. The artist shouldn’t be blamed the parents should be. Parents should restrict their children from listening to music by Lil Herb because it leads to violence and killings and a lot of gang related activities.