POLL: Are You Against Black On Black Violence, But Still Listen To Music That Glorifies It?
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Doesn't matter.
it music can influence behavior, how come this never happens in the opposite direction? People ain't falling in love because they listen to jodeci
it music can influence behavior, how come this never happens in the opposite direction? People ain't falling in love because they listen to jodeci
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Yes and entertainment influences culture and provides context for the world around us. It shapes our opinion and our worldview. Why do you think so much effort is put into propaganda. The Nazi's used propaganda to desensitize hatred towards Jews. The Birth of a Nation caused a resurgence of the KKK. Fox News has almost an entire nation rejecting basic science. A radio show incited Rwandan people to commit genocide against each other. Etc etc. There are countless examples from history and our current era of how mass media (which includes entertainment) influences large segments of people.
Now those are some pretty extreme examples but they exemplify the power of media and how it can drive people to do and think pretty wacky things. I am not saying there is some nefarious campaign to condition black people via rap but there are some very disturbing parallels.
If you're listening to songs about killing black people over and over its going to change your brain chemistry and influence how you experience the world. I think many of us don't realize just how malleable the human mind is.
Why didn’t it change your brain chemistry?
CreepyMcCreeperson
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I love the beats, but the lyrics are abysmal. Don’t get me started on videos.
eastside313
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The streets influence everything first. This chit rappers rap about is really happening and been happening since forever. When epmd and public enemy was the soundtrack niccas was still out selling dope and shooting people.
It did for while but I exposed myself to different things in life. There was a time in my life when I thought hitting licks was something to be proud of. I am not saying the mindset I had was entirely influenced by rap but it definitely played a factor.
eh, Jodeci made me believe in love and the promise that it gives, and ive been happily married going on 14 years now. This new generation seems to have given up on the concept of love (if we’re going off what is presented on the internet at least)
This is true. Also a byproduct of the influence media and entertainment has on American culture.
Again I agree. All entertainment starts as an expression of real life until real life starts emulating entertainment. I am not even saying that the solution is eradicating all rap. At the end of the day we have to change the conditions that it spawned from in the first place. However, I think its important to take into account how our minds are being manipulated my this genre of music. Again, it provides context about the world we experience and inhibits us from imagining different ways to contextualize our shared experience.
eastside313
Superstar
That’s the only thing that matter. Until the conditions in our environments change ain’t nothing going to change. That’s a whole different conversation.
IMO The people who’s mind is being manipulated by music are usually the ones that’s not actually from these places where the chit goes down at. If you from there and out in the streets you been seeing plenty of negative influences right there in real life. They don’t need no song.
I think it depends on how much you consume it. You can’t play basketball and watch a movie at the same time. Music becomes the soundtrack of your life without having to make any special accommodations. Other media, you’d have to be addicted to that form of entertainment for it to have the same effect. Like nerds who sit around all day watching anime whose lives revolve around it…. Very different than someone who just watches it a couple hours per week
Exactly. The main problem is accountability. People will blame everyone else except for the terrible parenting in some homes.
Ski Mask
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nikkas can deflect, but how you can decry ignorance and violence in places like chicago, yet bump nikkas like king von who bragged about committing murder on his songs, durk, those jacksonville rappers, etc....
Man i wish someone would make a parody with a cop rapping about killing their opps(us). I wonder if we would see the disrespect then.
Man i wish someone would make a parody with a cop rapping about killing their opps(us). I wonder if we would see the disrespect then.
Sure do. Because
1. I can separate hyperbole from reality.
2. I'm aware that too much of anything is toxic.
3. I'd never play some tracks around my (future) kids.
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