A role model is consider someone “who others look up to ND admire. A role model provides inspiration and motivation to seek out accomplishments. Role models send messages about their beliefs by what they do and say. ” Rappers, are always target for their “wild” action such as the language they use in their songs, ways of dressing or living life. For example a team of research from the university of Berkeley California, made studies that “prove” rap music has a negative impact on those who listen to the “Negro music”. Rap/hip hop) This study proved how most of the young generation who listen to this music where most likely o end up having sex In an early age, use drugs such as EXT, drink alcohol, smoke weed and party more often than others. “It’s a health-risk in another way too, since rap-enthusiasts appear more aggressive as well: they are more often in fist fights and are more likely to threaten others with a knife or a gun. And risk being hurt by the way. () However, what these critics argue about rap music Is not all to be true. Rappers rap about the truth that others prefer to ignore. African Americans are who predominately are involve in rap music Just a few Latino/Hispanic and White(s) Mine) are able to make it to the game. The hardships of growing up In a broken home where there can be hardly any good education available for the young child can lead to the path of not being able to grow up with a good role model. Pace, Baggy Smalls, Mine, and Oil’ Wayne talk about how the influence they had because of the gangs around them. “They say I’m wrong and I’m heartless, but all along was looking for a father he was gone I hung around with the Thugs, and even though they sold drugs They showed a young brother love. ” In this quote OPAC talks about how he always looked for that father love and since he wasn’t able to get it from his real dad, he got it from those in the gangs who did showed they got his back.
This shows what the rappers had to go through In their life to get to where they are a now and even In some of their songs they talk to those who are going through the same stuff and give them hope off better future. The problem society doesn’t quiet seem to understand, is that there are many children that nowadays, grow up in family environments that are Just made of either a mom or a dad. Sometimes those parents get married or find someone else and then the stepfathers/mothers of those young kids, aren’t the nicest people in the world.
Due to this kind of broken environments children have to deal with in a very young age, they start to find other resources that can helped them feel stronger and capable of flung In without being made fun of for not having a mom or a dad. When kids listen to rap songs they Just don’t listen to those songs of partying and smoking weed, they also listen to those lyrics that talk about the real life tuitions like the poverty they might live in and the lack of good resources around this artist try to convey positive messages to their audience.
This song talks about how some people are discriminated and Judge wrong by others yet none know how they actually feel. Many rappers try to show themselves to the media as strong and not caring about anything that is said about them, although that in their songs or interviews they actually open up and express that it does hurt them yet they prefer to act that way so they wont be look at as weak. I’m a teen whose influenced by rap, I AP myself because I love it and I breathe hip-hop but I don’t smoke pot I don’t have guns I don’t sell drugs I don’t go out and try to kill people because I know what’s right to do and what’s wrong to do here’s a perfect example oil Haynes a rapper but he tells kids to stay in school he was a straight a student in school yeah Hess really stupid right and mine yeah he was a drop out and a attic but he tells kids now not to get involved with that stuff he tells kids to stay in school… Sic does not influence you in a bad way Just describes how you feel at times and hip hop and raps good for that cause it come out and says how its feeling. ” Is the response of a boy interviewed about the topic. Teen that view rappers as their heroes, chose them because they can related to them, many who grow up in bad neighborhoods and with out a mother or father, are the ones that can related to OPAC, Mine and Baggy Smalls.
Others who just had their mommas, related to Oil Wayne and know about that mother love. Rappers eventually have to make songs at times about partying and drinking, but that’s Just to sell record, the true fans of those rappers know better than to believe hat that’s the massage being send by their role models. I myself am a fan of rap music.
Mine and Outpace Shaker, have been role models to me yet I don’t drink, smoke, are involve in gangs or neither am I having sex, those are Just stereo types people make about music, When I view this artist as role models, I look at what they really stand for and what they try to do with their music, those who use them as an excuse to the negative decisions they decide to take shouldn’t blame it in a person, instead they should blame it on their self.