“Rap doesn’t influence anyone to commit crimes”

[8WON6]

every single thread like this starts out with "rap is the only influence for black criminals"
people call out the fact that crime happened before rap. people call out the fact that other ethnic groups listen to rap too and their crime rates are different.
and a host of other things


then people walk it back to "well, nobody said it's the only influence" or "you have to admit rap doesn't help"

every time. there's that walk back because yall start out saying wild retarded shyt just to make your threads spicy.

 

[5thbornpowerseed]

Music is influential in general...

Music to party to...
Music to make love to...
Music to exercise to...
Music to rob to...
Music to kill to...

Lie to yourself if you want to...
But we're 100 hundred years deep since the advent of mass media, and if the previous generations are any indication...
Music is THE most influential cultural aspect on youth development and of shaping world view...

I'll dig up pictures of you old nikkas in a g unit tank top bra to prove my point...

 

[JNew]

Easily yes.

If rappers talked about going to college and getting a doctors. It be different out here.

 

[WhenWeWereKings]

an ak said as much in the clip…folks are gonna try to spin what he said tho and use the hitmaka clip to make it seem that rap has more influence than the environment/circumstances in certain neighborhoods

I completely agree. As someone who has worked with young ppl for over two decades, environment and upbringing has to be the number one factor in why people choose to get involved with criminality. But I'd be lying if i said that way too many kids weren't emulating some of their favorite rappers antics and lyrics.

Again I'm not gonna stand on a soap box and proclaim rap as the primary cause because that's disenguous as hell. But it's also disingenuous to act like it doesn't have any sort of negative influence either.

The same way kids get inspired positively by rap its no different when it comes to the negativity. Why do ppl wanna bury their head in the sand either way?

 

[TAYLONDO SAMSWORTHY]

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2. My artist that I signed doesn’t rap about that shyt. He has a couple lines here and there but is 99% more conscious melodic rap

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[Silver Surfer]

I listen to Earth Wind and Fire

 

[old pig]

It's sad to see some black people go so hard trying to defend violent rap music.

it’s even sadder to see black ppl attempt to gloss over institutional racism and the impact it has to create conditions that make it easier for poor young black ppl to fall off track with rap music playing some role in that

 

[GunRanger]

The coli:

sees a gay on tv - " the agenda is real, theyre making kids gay."


young black rappers doing nothing but dealing/using drugs and murdering other blacks - "no influence whatsoever, shame on you for thinking otherwise."

 

[Redwood]

that sounds like every hood in america

Only to the ones that don't use common sense.

 

[Burned Verses]

Whole first page full of dummies.

Only a community 30+ years past failure thinks like this.

 

[greenvale]

To counter, they start juelzing about anecdotal experience. Dudes pull up statistics out that ass for every topic but all of a sudden their personal experience is enough

the focus should be to educate children/the impressionable on how these forms of entertainment are just that.. but we can’t even acknowledge a basic concept.

Most of them I’d assume invoke pride and honor in the country. let the TheColi tell it, it’s because the song sounded nice lmao.

It's always logical fallacies with them. I wish they would just admit they like the content rather than deny it has influence.

 

[old pig]

The coli:

sees a gay on tv - " the agenda is real, theyre making kids gay."


young black rappers doing nothing but dealing/using drugs and murdering other blacks - "no influence whatsoever, shame on you for thinking otherwise."

thecoli is not a person…you’re purposely picking conflicting statements attributed to different ppl in a false attempt to create signs of “hypocrisy”…thecoli is also full of posters who believe ppl are exaggerating the impact of the gay agenda and it also has a lot of posters who believe rap has a negative influence on black ppl otherwise this thread wouldn’t exist

 

[Worthless Loser]

it’s even sadder to see black ppl attempt to gloss over institutional racism and the impact it has to create conditions that make it easier for poor young black ppl to fall off track with rap music playing some role in that

This is a deflection and a way to escape violent rap music criticism.

 

[Paper Boi]

Question I always ask is…If tonight Lyor Cohen and all them white folk said they’re done with rap and it collapses overnight and tommorow there is no rap on radio, streaming or YouTube- Does O-Block go silent? Do all the California gangs that started before Hip Hop just dissolve?

right

it's a chicken/egg and obviously crime existed before music existed, at least before music about crime existed.

however to make a statement that it has never influenced anyone to commit crime... is just a lie.


i think anyone who thinks hip-hop is the main culprit in crime is insane too.

does hip hop (at least popular hip hop) play a part in the larger scheme of WS that perpetuates crime and violence in the community, yes.

 

[Samori Toure]

Easily yes.

If rappers talked about going to college and getting a doctors. It be different out here.

Music is influential in general...

Music to party to...
Music to make love to...
Music to exercise to...
Music to rob to...
Music to kill to...

Lie to yourself if you want to...
But we're 100 hundred years deep since the advent of mass media, and if the previous generations are any indication...
Music is THE most influential cultural aspect on youth development and of shaping world view...

I'll dig up pictures of you old nikkas in a g unit tank top bra to prove my point...

How come it never applies to any musicians other than Black musicians. When Black people played Blues they were accused of negatively influencing society. When White people stole that music and called it Country or Folk music then all of a sudden it was fine.

When Black people invented Rock and Roll it was called the devil's music. When lame ass White people stole it then all of a sudden the music was fine. Same thing with Jazz.

This is nothing more but another way to blame the Black man.