Compare and Contrast

What's with the Music?

> Musicians have the freedom to express themselves in their music,

but

>when do musicians start to abuse this privilege? There are many

different

>styles of music. Most styles try to target a specific group of people.

>Country Music, for example, targets (the) white rural population.

Another

>example ( )is rap, or ( )rhythm and blues (R&B), which

targets

>(the) black culture. Rap is considered to be a very controversial type

of

>music, and I can see why. Rap tends to disguise the nasty,

inappropriate

>lyrics with a cool beat that most teenagers and preteens love. Rap has

>evolved throughout time, starting with the blues. At first, the

producers

>wrote their music, but today most of the musicians control their own

music.

>In all type(s) of music, musician try to reach out to their listeners,

but

>when does the attempt to reach out to the audience start to cause a

>problem?

> Rap music today( ) is causing (problems) throughout the United

States.

>What started out as a simple attempt to express the African American's

>hardships has turned into an expression of greed, wealth, and sex.

Today

>everyone is considered equal. Besides the actual pigment of our skin

color,

>our biological make-up is the same. The hardships are over, and in

today's

>world to get anywhere you must climb a latter to success. Respect

isn't

>earned by what happened in the past. To build a nation of leaders, our

>music, television, and the easy to access web sites should focus on

the

>good old morals( ). They should make it sound cool to become

successful

>instead of making it sound cool to have sex. Sometimes when I'm

listening

>to the radio, I wonder if I'm listening to porn in the form of rap!

> Kids between the ages of eight and thirteen are effected most by

rap

>music. They are just beginning to learn the important issue(s) of

life. Rap

>music seems to confuse what is right and what is wrong when it comes

to the

>opposite sex, the peer pressures of drugs and alcohol, and language.

First

>of all, you can hardly understand what any rap singer is saying. They

will

>rhyme anything even if what they're rhyming is made up. They make up

words

>like "fo shizzle." These made up words are place(d) in the made up

>dictionary of "slang." The "slang" terms that are made up in rap songs

are

>usually used to disguise the meaning of what they're really trying to

get

>across. For example, "don't phunk with my heart" is phrase from a

popular

>song that uses the word phunk instead of the "f" word. My ten year old

>brother is smart enough to figure that out! Instead of going around

saying

>the "f" word, he goes around and say(s) phunk. He doesn't think it's

bad;

>it's not like he's actually saying the word.

> However(,) that is not the point. The word is still used for the

same

>reason.

> If music on the radio was rated like movies in a theater, then rap

music

>would be rated R. There is an age limit for R-rated movies, and there

>should be for rap as well(.) Women in rap music are considered to be

>nothing but possessions and sex toys. The musician don't try to get

across

>falling in love and raising a family. Instead they talk about they're

one

>night stand love scenes. They talk about how "hoes" mess up they're

lives,

>and how they're making love one minute and becoming parents the next

>minute. When you're a ten your old boy listening to these lyrics,

"Give it

>to me baby, nice and slow Climb on top, ride like you in the rodeo You