Hip Hop Causes Violence

The Hip Hop Wars
Hip Hop Causes Violence

When I read the title of the chapter I totally disagreed with the statement. I do not think that hip hop causes violence. However, as I continue to read through the quotes that were thrown on the first page it made me change my mind a little bit about hip hop causing violence.

            When I continued to read through the chapter, I quickly jumped back to my first opinion about believing that hip hop does not cause violence. Tricia Rose makes a lot of great points about how hip hop causes violence and provides heavy examples for it but, I will still continue to disagree with her. For example, she points out how the youth see the way rappers dress, listen to their songs and most likely follow them. I agree partially because they would follow in their footstep because that specific artist may be their role model. However, people may dress like that due to society not because hip hop makes them go into that direction. Also, when people listen to the song they usually like the song because they know the lyrics. Nine times out of ten, people hardly understand the lyrics; they just are able to repeat it over and over.

Tricia Rose states, “Clearly, everything around us, past or present, has an impact on us, in one degree or another”. I definitely agree with her, however, we as the person choose to let these things around us impact us in a positive way or a negative way. This is where we choose one of our paths in life. Many people choose to go downwards while others choose to go the opposite way.

I think this chapter was a confession and the reason being said is because she breaks down how hip hop causes violence from socially too economically. She is basically confessing to the reader in my opinion. The reason for this is because the way the blacks and brown youth were brought up.

In the end the topic of hip hop is very controversy. Some people think it is terrible for the human mind while others think it is great for the human mind. There is no right or wrong answer here. In our mind we choose to believe what we want to believe, whether we think it is right or wrong.