Thursday, January 2, 2020

How Hip Hop Is Affecting The Youth - 1540 Words

Joaquin Hamm-Mclymont Professor Theard AFA 4370 March 24, 2015 How hip hop is affecting the youth When it comes to hip hop music and hip hop culture all together, it can have many influences on people who like the culture of hip hop. His may be from the clothes that are worn and even the lyrics a specific hip hop artist says in his or her music. But one group of people, in my opinion, that hip hop culture influences the most is the youth. Now see the youth are at the age where they look for guidance and wait for someone to tell them how things should go and what things should go. Now when you put hip hop culture together with the seeking guidance of the youth you have positives and negatives. Believe it or not the youth could also be†¦show more content†¦Even though hip hop culture in the 70s was the beginning of the attraction for youth influences I believe the 1980s was the most influential years. In the 1980s hip hop culture was at an all-time high especially attracting the youth, this is the era I will like to call the golden age. T his was the time many positives and negatives about hip hop culture was brought up. Starting with the positives first, hip hop music gave the youth the freedom of speech that was lacking in music at the time. When hip hop music was just coming out America thought that only young black people listen to this type of music, but during the first hip hop tour which featured acts like Run DMC, whoodini, and the fat boys young people that were white, black, and Hispanic sold out these shows which really shocked America. In the VH1 documentary, â€Å"Tanning of America† Jojo Simons of Run DMC said he made music for only young black people and that he was shocked that different ethnic groups came to see him perform. Hip hop also made the youth want to buy different styles of clothing. For example, Run DMC came out with a record called my Adidas to show their love of their favorite sneaker. This made Adidas the number one selling shoe because young kids wanted the shoes the rappers wer e talking about in their music videos. During this time hip hop groups such as the beastie boys, showed that white kids can be a part of hip hop

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