Is Hip-Hop Culture Harming Our Youth?

Is tap Culture Harming Our Y come inh? Hip-hop culture is everywhere. The culture, which encompasses rapping, deejaying, break-dancing and graffiti-writing, has become so popular that it has entered mainstream fashion and modern language. It doesnt die there. The culture permeates everything from TV commercials to toys to video games. Currently, there is even a hip-hop exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. You pee-pee it, and hip hop is there re redeeming. However, hip hops most potent form is its rap musicembraced by urban Blacks and suburban Whites alike.It is raw self- comportion that fewtimes features profane lyrics, misogyny and violence. The music, along with rap videos that often present a disturbing mix of rap, hip-hop dance styles, fashion and language, leave many people enquire Is hip-hop culture harming our youth? . The hip-hop culture is just like electricity, civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton told JET. It can be used negatively or positively. The same electr ic current that lights up your sign can also electrocute you.It is the misuse of hip-hop culture to attack our women and promote violence. We must advertize the proper use of hip-hop culture. We are all influenced by the hip-hop generation. Sharpton, who recently hosted a finical summit on social responsibility in the hip-hop industry, tagged gangsta rappers well-paid buckle d declares. Advertisement Dont let some record executive tell you that cursing out your mama is in style. Anytime you perpetuate a slave mentality that desecrates women and that desecrates our race in the name of a record. I consider you a well-paid slave. Sharpton labeled the fashion of these rappersloose-fitting pants and sneakers without shoelacesprison clothes. Sharpton was joined at the summit by some of the industrys superstars, including superordinate P, Sean Puffy Combs, Chuck D and RZA. No Limit Records CEO-rapper Master P apologetically admitted that some of his lyrics tycoon be offensive to w omen. Everything that came from me like that came out of ignorance. I hope to edit myself in the future, he reportedly said during the event. However, he asserted, I dont believe any form of entertainment is harming our youth.It is up to parents to raise their own children and teach them. Blaming entertainment is a scapegoat. Dr. C. DeLores Tucker, chair of the National Political Congress of Black Women, Inc. , who has been a hygienic critic of hip-hop culture for more than a decade, continues to cite its reported negative influence all over our youth. The glorification of pornography, wanton disregard for civil authority, misogynistic disrespect for women and a penchant for violence are the unintentional impact of hip-hop culture on todays youth, the activist revealed. I say un think, because hip hop was intended to celebrate the revival of the age-old rhymed recitations of lifes problems and aspirations set to music. Unfortunately, somewhere along the way, some unscrupulous elements hijacked this potent conduit to our youth and loaded it with the evil and debasing, hate-driven messages in the lyrics we now know as gangsta rap. Hence the artistry of the rappers in the streets is used by the gangstas in the suites to spread cultural garbage among our youth. Hip-hop music mogul Russell Simmons, who dubs himself the grandad of hip hop, says the culture has been helpful in allowing others to understand Blacks inner-city plight. It is not going to go away. I bequeath stand by the door to keep it from being censored. It is easy to try to put a chapeau on what you dont like. But the real test, if you are freedom-loving people, is to protect even that which we dont like from the censorship by the government, he explained. He points out the positive contri only whenions from the hip-hop culture. The slam poetry settings evolved out of the hip-hop community. Some of it does not have any curse words. Young folks have found a way to express themselves that was really inspired by rap. Kids are writing. They are thinking brilliant thoughts are coming out in this creative poetry. Concludes Simmons, The hip-hop culture will evolve in ways that will be known as a significant art. The rap artists are not the poets that they are yet to become, but they are indeed poets.