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In “Hip Hop Theory of Justice”, Paul Butler discusses some of the negative aspects of the hip hop culture. Alot of people criticize rap music and hip hop culture as a whole. People say a lot of negative things about it; ranging from all sorts of things like it promoting materialism, it allegedly promotes gun violence, the songs influence the kids to become drug dealers, and it objectifies women (as though there aren’t any rock videos that objectify women, like the band, Drowning Pool’s video, “Step Up”). Another example would be the nu-metal rock band KoRn’s music video, “Twisted Transistor”. Another song that they made named “Thoughtless” is a song about how a kid gets revenge on the classmates at his school who bullied on him. It’s basically a negative song. Part of the lyrics is “…pull the trigger and you’re down…” If someone is being bullied, they shouldn’t get back at the bullies who picked on him by getting a gun from home or where ever and killing them. Another song they made named “A.D.I.D.A.S.” is an abbreviation for “All Day I Dream About Sex”. Even the artist Marilyn Manson is an example. He claims he’s a reverend in the Church of Satan. Basically, there is negativity in every music genre. There may be rap music videos and songs that are provocative. There are some other rock songs out there that don’t send out positive messages to its listeners. Hip hop may not be perfect but neither are other genres of music.
These are the links to the videos and songs that I was discussing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTvDItamcfc (Drowning Pool- “Step Up”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVPvzX-AeSM (Korn- “Thoughtless”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCPYGKAUMjY (Korn- “Twisted Transistor”)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAfIFStgmY (Korn- “A.D.I.D.A.S.”)
