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Music and culture
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Rap music, often known as Hip-hop music, originated in the late 1970s in the African
United States. Rhyming speech, rapping, sampling beats, and rhythmic beat boxing are common
features of this music genre. Scratching, hip hop culture, and instrumental tracks are the main
components. Rap music's worldwide popularity has resulted in a number of negative
consequences for young people because of its incorporation of explicit content and visual
graphics. As a result, this article focuses on the impact of rap music's explicit content and visual
pictures on young people.
A qualitative study and a non-probability survey are used to examine how young people
perceive and respond to the influence of rap music. They're expected to respond to the substance
of rap music that deals with domestic abuse and the positive and negative effects it has on
people's lives. An investigation of how rap violence is desensitized in young people should yield
a hypothesis from its findings. This is what we expect from the survey.
It has been shown that the largest number of victims of rap consumption is found among
young adults between the ages of 16 and 30 years old, according to recent research. The majority
of these people are in their early twenties and thirties (Woods 2012). The detrimental effects of
rap music outweigh the good ones, according to study. In spite of the negative and permissive
nature of rap music, it has a good impact on the youngsters by expanding their awareness and
advancement in the music industry, as described in the conclusion of this article.
Rap music's reputation as a style of music that glorifies sexual exploitation is one of the
first negative repercussions of the genre's substance and graphic imagery. This is usually
associated with videos that feature heavily sexualized ladies. According to research, many