Rap Music's Message of Money, Cars, and Women Gives Young Society the Wrong Message?

Rap and hip-hop music, while a main staple in today's young society, has now went from a positive embracement of the world to a world that is filled with guns, drugs, illegal activity and women whom have no longer been called women, but the efferemal term of 'ho'.

In what has been termed as the 'old school years' when rap music first began, the meassage had always been plain and simple: to have fun in life. But, we also cannot forget the other sociological messages that came forth, such as the tracks 'White Lines' and 'The Message' by rap pioneers Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. As time progressed, the nature of the music and the message drastically changed and grew, with even stronger and more hardcore issues, such as the gang life and the common and purposeful mistreatment of women such as NWA's 'F*** Tha Police' and Public Enemy's 'Fight The Power', which spoke of the murder of law enforcement officers or the rights of African-Americans to stand against the governmental fathers of this country. This has not, however, changed at all, as now the lyrics are becoming even more hardcore and grandiose, with many of them actually supporting the gangsta lifestyle and everything that goes with it. Many rap artists have taken this trail, and it has become a great and booming business for record producers and labels, as well as the industry itself. But, have any of these people taken into consideration the way they are presenting themselves and how they are looking to the global youth of our planet, who merely take the music as the way of the artists presenting themselves and their glamourized vision of the criminal lifestyle. Have they taken into account that their lyrics may be, inadvertently, creating a recent rise in crime simply because the listener thinks it's okay to do certain things such as beat up their girlfriend or rob a bank?