how does media influence hip hop?
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usually, the media ruins whatever it touches\n\nplease note this may be somewhat long, but bear with me ok?\n\nhiphop\nlet's define it\n\nhip hop is a culture\nthe culture is made up of 4 basic elements:\nemcee/rap\nbboy/"breakdancing" <i'll talk about this later>\ndj/turntables, mixing\ntagger/graffiti\n\nok\nmedia first destroyed bboying \nwhat? what's bboying?\nyou probably know it as "breakdancing"\nit's actually called "bboying," and the media just took it in the 80's as eye candy and made some money off of it\n\noh yeah, and they called it "breakdancing"\n\nnowadays, the real bboys call the breakdancing sellout "breakdancers"\nexample: mike garcia\n\nso note, not all people who bboy like to be called "breakdancers"\n\nthe media aims for the wrong hip hop .... i dont know how to say it\n\nbut basically, let's look\nlook through the yahoo! answers questions about rap\n\nmost people say rap is all about gangstas, etc.\nsome of those answers are even voted as the best!\nthe media looked towards 50 cent as a great rapper\nwhy? i dont know. he got shot 3 times? (he got shot 3 times; he got shot AT 9 times, but only 3 hit him)\n50 cent gives rap a bad reputation by rapping about "gangstas, hoes," etc.\n\nso the media is pretty much hip-hop's enemy\nit blew up some elements and then left it to rot
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Violence on TV has no effect on me.\nI'd like to kill the mofo that says it does........\n\nNo, seriously, it impacts on the language we use (from slang to swearing) as well as how we dress and make ourselves look (when Friends was popular, a lot of women copied Jennifer Aniston's hair).\n\nGood Luck with your paper.
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The MEDIA.  \n\nWhen you look at the news on television, local crime reports are full of images of Black men wanted for some crime, or Black men captured for some crime.  (Whereas they don't too much show the white males that commit and are arrested for crimes).  Fear sells, and seeing a Black man arrested makes some people think they can sleep easily at night.  Especially when historically, the stereotype embedded in our brains is that Black people are lazy, untrustworthy, and unintelligent.\n\nDo your own research. Go into a local store and watch how the sales person watches the Black person that comes in, and not so much the white person.  Look at the news articles with mugshots of some Black person looking "sinister".  \n\nRacism is an integral part of this society.  Regardless of how so-called "enlightened" we supposedly have become.  As long as a white person can commit a crime and blame a Black man for it, as long as music executives grow rich off of some young Black man or woman singing about committing some crime to get rich (and putting out a music video of it) all the while sneering for the camera, that image will remain.\n\nLM
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I say mainstream rap music has been falling off since '95 (personally, I think the beginning of rap music's decline coincides with the moment Master P came onto the scene).  Since then, the mainstream media has been increasingly oversaturated by a lot of cookie-cutter emcees (if we can even call them emcees) and candy rappers who spout garbage because right now, they're the ones bringing their record companies the most money. Some, like me, might be old enough to remember this and some might not be, but back in the late 80's and early to mid 90's there was a lot of talent, variety and substance in rap. You could turn on the radio and hear conscious (as in socially/politically conscious), gangsta, old-school, jazz-infused, comical and storytelling styles of rap back to back in one sitting (or one car trip). THAT is what's sorely lacking in mainstream rap right now - talent, variety and substance. There's nothing to choose from anymore, kinda like going to McDonald's and seeing nothing but fries on the overhead menu.\n\nThere are still some good emcees out there who don't fit the "cookie-cutter" mold and have something positive to say, but unfortunately we rarely (if ever) see them in the mainstream media. A lot of the real emcees have been put on the backburner or are stuck in the underground circuit because for the most part, greedy record companies and good ol' Corporate America have flooded the market with whatever "trend du jour" makes them the most money (which, unfortunately, glorifies the negative/controversial). It's sad, but for the most part, neither the record companies nor the rappers do it for the love of the music anymore.  It's all about that almighty dollar.\n\nGood thing I was introduced to underground hip hop a few years ago. Otherwise, I'd still be sittin' here with Midnight Marauders on repeat, reminiscing about the good ol' days - lol.
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What r all u saying!!! HIP HOP DOMINATES AND RULES!!!
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Ask your local university library for this article:\n"Violent Music Lyrics Do Not Usually Cause Lasting Harm" by James K. Fitzpatrick. Media Violence. William Dudley, Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 1999. Reprinted from James K. Fitzpatrick, "Can Teenagers Survive Marilyn Manson?" New Oxford Review, November 1997, by permission of New Oxford Review (1069 Kains Ave., Berkeley, CA 94706). Copyright © 1997 New Oxford Review.\n\nand this one:\n"Studies Have Not Established a Link Between Rap Music and Youth Violence" by Becky L. Tatum. Media Violence. Louise I. Gerdes, Ed. Opposing Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2004. Becky L. Tatum, "The Link Between Rap Music and Youth Crime and Violence: A Review of the Literature and Issues for Future Research," Justice Professional, vol. 11, February 1999, p. 339. \n\nI got these references from a subscription database that a university library should have called Opposing Viewpoints.\n\nThis will be a hard argument to make as most valid research shows that there is a correlation between heavy metal and rap music and lower grades, discipline problems, drug use, teen sex, suicide, etc...  I suppose you could argue that the types of people who would display negative behavior would do so regardless of what music they listen to.  They listen to heavy metal because it mimics their feelings they already had.  So, listening to HM could be a consequence, not a cause.  Good luck!
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Society drives government policy.  In the court of society no matter how right you are the society and in this case the media influences the mob to its whim.  Government imposes control to the extent that benefits control.  Ultimately media wins because they are looked upon favorably.\n  \nFor example the Teri schiavo case.  Who other than the media cared about the situation where a woman was vegetable and her husband did not want her to suffer any longer.  Portrayed her husband like a merciless criminal, the vultures of government swooped in to impose control... but it wasn't until the media spun its web into public policy.  hope this helps.
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Honestly, the U.S. is headed toward complete chaos if the youth don't realize that the HipHop culture is promoting violence against women and overt sexuality. With rappers as role models and video games such as Grand Theft Auto teaching impressionable kids that this is the way life is, there will be no law and order.\nThey have to learn to achieve their own identity and realize that people cannot co-exist without laws. Peer pressure is tough but so is doing the right thing.
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without a doubt old school rap, the only stuff they play today that i like are by artists who aren't really mainstream i.e jean grae, talib kweli, mos def and immortal technique. \n\nrap in the mainstream follows the same formula so you don't get much variety even though there are tons or rappers plays their message isn't too positive.
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Media doesn't effect the Governement.  Government effects media.   Media exlusivly represents private interest and thusly only reflects values and ideas of a handful of individuals.
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The rap and hip-hop music is apart of their culture. Those things such as *pimping/huslting have really happened to these people. They have  SEEN the violence and HEARD the PROFANITY. If rockers can say what is on their mind in their music than so can BLACK PEOPLE. And we have the right of freedom of speech. YOU CANT destroy black culture. AND BLACK PEOLE arent the only rappers. PAUL WALL>>>>EMINEM. They are rappers becuz they have seen the 1)sex, 2)drugs, 3)violence, 5)Profanity[too much] 4)Hustling/pimping, 5)Acting "tough" and all that crap. THEY KNOW THE REAL WORLD. PEople singing about stuff that isnt real is why people chose hip-hop and rap music!
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congratulations on your new found happiness but be careful and dont take everything literaly and go kill people. i mean rap and hip hop are great its just that for some people it is a bad influence. i know you can feel me on this.
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The media have arguably become the leading sex educator in America today. That's not good news, considering the fact that more than 75% of primetime shows contain sexual content but only 11% discuss the risks of sex.3 How significant is the influence of media on teens' sexual attitudes and behaviors? For 50 years researchers have explored the connection between media violence and real-life aggression in children and adolescents.4 More than 1000 studies show a connection.5 In fact, according to one leading researcher, "the controversy is over"6; now, we have a second major study showing a strong connection between sexual content in all media and onset of sexual activity among teens.7 Is there much doubt that research on the impact of sex in the media is going to parallel the media-violence research? The media represent a powerful teacher of children and adolescents.8 As such, the media cut across virtually every concern that parents and pediatricians have about young people: sex, violence, homicide, suicide, obesity, eating disorders, school problems, and drug use.
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I think everyone who produces media should try to cultivate something positive and constructive.  There's definitely a great market for negativity and pure profiteering, which will always draw a lot of supply and demand, but the more that influential media moguls try to put their energies in good directions, the better.
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Most of t.v. has negative influence. Especially anything on MTV. Our culture is addicted to unhealthy living.
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I prefer Hot 108 on the internet. It is mostly hip-hop, link below.