Had a long post typed out and deleted it. All I’ll say is this. A lot of y’all don’t have the credentials to even really understand why some of this music is literally a plague because you don’t come from the environments or households it effects the most and what you can’t relate to you won’t get. Teenagers are impressionable from a multitude of perspectives. I’m not saying blame all rap music for poor life decisions. But to act as if the music doesn’t have influence is hilarious the way some of y’all are acting itt as if it’s a reach

It should come from family but when the family f***ed up then what?

And that’s been the age old argument since the 80s lol. The difference is (and they on record hated it too) back then you had rappers like Chuck D, Pac, etc.

Who’s the equivalent of that in 2023?

And it shouldn’t be that way i agree but rappers be reaching these kids in places they f***ed up families couldnt

And ppl arguing that rock/white genres dont get this same flack just expose how much yall dont know about music.

Elvis was getting BASHED for being a bad influence on these rebellious white kids listening to his “niggajacent” music lmao

For being on a music forum I feel like some of ya downplay just how impactful and influential music can be lol

i admit i listened to young thug and wore dresses back in 2016 after learning he wore it cuz he had a stick i felt ashamed and deceived..

so yes, i think it's a bad influence..

They’ll go on and on about how some album changed their life or got them through a break up or depression but then swear it can’t impact violence

its tricky but ultimately some people are WAY more foolish than impressionable than others, and when u have these people killing or robbing innocent people it becomes bigger than being about the criminal. Ultimately the system is in place to isolate these often black youth. White people believe in that s*** and tbh its horrible how prison and the court systems here work but as long as we are associated with crime they wont budge.

if u rly think about it hip hop has gone quite a long way in perpetuating our suffering as a whole

edit: i thought about this a lil more an tbh i think while hip hop does make other races look at us funny, its not rly our problem why others are racist, we gotta just live the lives we were meant to live, hip hop is great music, if no one else understand it they can suck a d***. An tay k didnt kill that old man cus of hip hop, he did it cus he a psychopath lmao, that s*** aint cus of no damn music

an tbh i think people got the wrong idea about how we go about fixing this. rapping about smoking weed, drinking lean, popping pills, even guns an s*** is obv not good influence but the way u actually go about promoting these ideas is different than just talking about them. u can rap about whatever but u can make it clear where ur boundaries are, ok yea i have a song about a gun but im not talking about robbing people or shooting opps im talking about self defense, or im talking about ecstacy but im also talking about how it made me feel like s*** the next day, like u can keep it real about these topics and still hit the same nerve while not promoting dumb s***

ultimately these kids is around d**** and guns an they gonna try them at some point most likely. we need artists like nas who can talk about that s*** but from a smarter perspective

I think u give kids opportunities to make money legally that changes EVERYTHING (not like kid kids but like highschool/college age kids)

ALL THIS S*** RADICAL
ALL THIS S*** MAGICAL

nah are you being serious?

@user welp.

Guess who just got caught on IG Live waving the strap AGAIN

Guess what music was playing in the car AGAIN

it’s influencing people to lie in they raps because they know that’s what sells

Ja Morant got suspended cos he was influenced by music to pull out a gun on IG

Just now

Oh y’all get it

I’m kinda like this too.
Like, to me, if a song gets you riled up enough to do something stupid, then it was only a matter of time before something else would do it instead.
Like, that’s a problem with you and your impulse control at that point, the music is only marginally to blame at most

they’ll be like asap rocky inspired me to be pretty and jiggy when i was 16😎

then get offended when you say youngboy inspired someone to be violent at 16