No moreso than playing Halo makes you shoot up schools.It's the correlation =/= causation shit once again, people who are in the sort of criminal culture described will find rap music appealing. But just because 20 Pence says that he's gonna put a bullet in any honkey with a mullet, doesn't mean that the average person who listens to that music is suddenly going to go out and cap a few rednecks.Watching violent films doesn't make you violent.Playing violent games doesn't make you a school shooter.Reading Mein Kampfy Chair doesn't make you a nazi.and listening to rap doesn't make you go out and start snorting coke, shooting white people and beating up hookers.
Quote from: Mr Psychologist on December 20, 2014, 09:53:58 AMNo moreso than playing Halo makes you shoot up schools.It's the correlation =/= causation shit once again, people who are in the sort of criminal culture described will find rap music appealing. But just because 20 Pence says that he's gonna put a bullet in any honkey with a mullet, doesn't mean that the average person who listens to that music is suddenly going to go out and cap a few rednecks.Watching violent films doesn't make you violent.Playing violent games doesn't make you a school shooter.Reading Mein Kampfy Chair doesn't make you a nazi.and listening to rap doesn't make you go out and start snorting coke, shooting white people and beating up hookers.It doesn't, but it can influence a person. There exists a big difference; when I learned about Communism in school, it influenced me to become one for many yearsMoney can influence people to either do good, or to do badPower can influence people to do good, or to do badIntelligence can influence a people to do good, or to do badI went to schools that were majority black and can safely say the lyrics of mainstream rap, such as sex, crime, and drugs, can have a level of influence on youth. These rappers are the same role models these kids look up to and when they see them doing crime and talking about it, that will in turn have an influence
Quote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 20, 2014, 10:36:28 AMQuote from: Mr Psychologist on December 20, 2014, 09:53:58 AMNo moreso than playing Halo makes you shoot up schools.It's the correlation =/= causation shit once again, people who are in the sort of criminal culture described will find rap music appealing. But just because 20 Pence says that he's gonna put a bullet in any honkey with a mullet, doesn't mean that the average person who listens to that music is suddenly going to go out and cap a few rednecks.Watching violent films doesn't make you violent.Playing violent games doesn't make you a school shooter.Reading Mein Kampfy Chair doesn't make you a nazi.and listening to rap doesn't make you go out and start snorting coke, shooting white people and beating up hookers.It doesn't, but it can influence a person. There exists a big difference; when I learned about Communism in school, it influenced me to become one for many yearsMoney can influence people to either do good, or to do badPower can influence people to do good, or to do badIntelligence can influence a people to do good, or to do badI went to schools that were majority black and can safely say the lyrics of mainstream rap, such as sex, crime, and drugs, can have a level of influence on youth. These rappers are the same role models these kids look up to and when they see them doing crime and talking about it, that will in turn have an influenceSure, just about everything influences people.I would say that having a shitty home environment, no father figure, no job prospects and being shot like animals in the street by the police and being third class citizens has more of an influence than some brainless twonk going 'nigganigganigganigga' into a mic.You are however right about people using them as rolemodels, which is tied into not having a father figure/having something worse than no dad as a father.
Quote from: Mr Psychologist on December 20, 2014, 10:52:58 AMQuote from: Kinder der Mörder on December 20, 2014, 10:36:28 AMQuote from: Mr Psychologist on December 20, 2014, 09:53:58 AMNo moreso than playing Halo makes you shoot up schools.It's the correlation =/= causation shit once again, people who are in the sort of criminal culture described will find rap music appealing. But just because 20 Pence says that he's gonna put a bullet in any honkey with a mullet, doesn't mean that the average person who listens to that music is suddenly going to go out and cap a few rednecks.Watching violent films doesn't make you violent.Playing violent games doesn't make you a school shooter.Reading Mein Kampfy Chair doesn't make you a nazi.and listening to rap doesn't make you go out and start snorting coke, shooting white people and beating up hookers.It doesn't, but it can influence a person. There exists a big difference; when I learned about Communism in school, it influenced me to become one for many yearsMoney can influence people to either do good, or to do badPower can influence people to do good, or to do badIntelligence can influence a people to do good, or to do badI went to schools that were majority black and can safely say the lyrics of mainstream rap, such as sex, crime, and drugs, can have a level of influence on youth. These rappers are the same role models these kids look up to and when they see them doing crime and talking about it, that will in turn have an influenceSure, just about everything influences people.I would say that having a shitty home environment, no father figure, no job prospects and being shot like animals in the street by the police and being third class citizens has more of an influence than some brainless twonk going 'nigganigganigganigga' into a mic.You are however right about people using them as rolemodels, which is tied into not having a father figure/having something worse than no dad as a father.So /thread then? After all, Meta stated the specific word of influence
How much does rap music influence the criminal culture around blacks
