hip hop heroes

Hip Hop Heroes

Hip Hop is very popular with the youth right now but how popular is it with the adults and parents. Is it good or bad? How does it effect our society? Is all of the music degrading to women, about drugs, or about violence? While collecting information on this I realized that the two groups i could divide the information into are: Positive Influences and Negative influences.

Positive Influences

Will Smith went from a stereotyped negative influence rapper to an inspirational actor.

"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important."

John F. Kerry
This proves that hip hop is not only listened to and understood by the "thugs" as some people call them but it affects major politicians too.




This song shows that not all hip hop/rap songs are degrading to women, encouraging drugs, and violence. This song is out there to keep listeners informed and thinking about the recent news.

Negative Influences

With album covers continuing to look like this parents will only continue to dislike hip hop.

This shows how the stereotypes that hip hop/rap music has on drugs are actual facts.

“I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up"
Dave Barry

This shows that how the type of music is sung influences people's views on that kind of music.

“There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that rap music spurs violence."
John Norton

The talk about gangs and about violence in the songs lead people to believe that thats all it's about.

This concludes that hip hop has had a major influence on many people whether positive or negative it has affected our society. Hip hop is known by many people and it gives alot of people careers, emotions, something to listen to or talk about and many others. Dont judge a book by its cover.