Hip Hop 1

Rappers who talk about violence and the streets are just reflecting the violent American culture that we live in. I agree with the statement above. I agree with that statement because when people listen to that type of music or any type of music it will always affect you and the American culture even if you don't realize it. Music such as rap has a great impact on us(Americans). When we hear rap that involves violence it changes our perspective of how we see Americans like men for instance, men have to hold up a reputation that says you are strong and that you are violent. Michael Dyson, a cultural critic said "when you think about American society, the notion of violent masculinity is at the heart of American identity. So the preoccupation with Jesse James and the outlaw, the rebel-much of that is associated in the American mindset, the collective imagination of the nation, with the expansion of the frontier. In the history of America...the social imagination, the violent man using the gun to defend his family, his kin, becomes the suitable metaphor for the notion of manhood." That quot basically sums up my opinion of how Americans are affected by rap music.