“Hip Hop is Now: An Evolving Youth Culture” by Carl and Virgil Taylor is an article from a journal that discusses the relationship between youth and hip hop culture. The article explains why Hip-Hop music includes violence, drug abuse, misogyny, and hypersexualization so excessively, yet youth ignore the vulgarity of it and enjoy it. Carl and Taylor interview different young adults and gain their perspectives on hip hop and how it influences them. The article then takes these views and attempt to help adults and those who question hip hop to understand them. The article educates adults about the way youth perceive ideas of loss of hope, tragedy, and morals in a way they can understand and sympathize with. Its also explained that these ideas
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Due to this being an article for a journal that is talking about intervention with youth and children, its audience is geared more towards adults. More specifically, these adults could be parents, guardians, counselors, teachers, and coaches. The audience would be those who are involved with youth and want to know how to effectively approach a situation in which understanding troubled youth would be beneficial. The topics correlate to the time the article was published as well because the Detroit that Carl and Virgil Taylor knew in the 60’s and 70’s, changed dramatically by 2007. Hip Hop has now become something much different than what early hip hop fans initially listened to; sex, violence, misogyny, homophobic slurs, and drugs, are all very prevalent and influence youth much greater than before (“Look”, par. 4). The explanation of the increasing rates of violence occurs through the article’s purpose and …show more content…
The article wants adults to understand that to youth are just trying to express themselves honestly and openly through hip hop. Due to that reason, the article takes a position that youth are just expressing themselves, which makes the article falls into the category of a commentary. The article is also a commentary due to the fact that it provides opinions of youth. One young woman that is interviewed is quoted saying, “We’re not that different from adults except ya’ll were punks and we’re not!” (Taylor and Taylor 210). Why adults are punks according her is due to the fact that youth will admit to their mistakes and actions while adults won’t (Taylor and Taylor 210). One young man is quoted saying that during the prohibition era adults still drank alcohol despite it being illegal, except they hid their immorality (Taylor and Taylor 212). Youth comment that adults assume if they don’t talk about it, it somehow makes the action more moral. Young adults on the other hand will engage in actions that are prohibited or immoral, but admit to it. To youth adults are simply hypocritical in every aspect they criticize young adults for. The article takes the position that youth will deal with tragedy, loss of hope, and the grueling struggles of the everyday life, but they prefer to be real with it and present it in their music.
Due to this being an article for a journal that is talking about intervention with youth and children, its audience is geared more towards adults. More specifically, these adults could be parents, guardians, counselors, teachers, and coaches. The audience would be those who are involved with youth and want to know how to effectively approach a situation in which understanding troubled youth would be beneficial. The topics correlate to the time the article was published as well because the Detroit that Carl and Virgil Taylor knew in the 60’s and 70’s, changed dramatically by 2007. Hip Hop has now become something much different than what early hip hop fans initially listened to; sex, violence, misogyny, homophobic slurs, and drugs, are all very prevalent and influence youth much greater than before (“Look”, par. 4). The explanation of the increasing rates of violence occurs through the article’s purpose and …show more content…
The article wants adults to understand that to youth are just trying to express themselves honestly and openly through hip hop. Due to that reason, the article takes a position that youth are just expressing themselves, which makes the article falls into the category of a commentary. The article is also a commentary due to the fact that it provides opinions of youth. One young woman that is interviewed is quoted saying, “We’re not that different from adults except ya’ll were punks and we’re not!” (Taylor and Taylor 210). Why adults are punks according her is due to the fact that youth will admit to their mistakes and actions while adults won’t (Taylor and Taylor 210). One young man is quoted saying that during the prohibition era adults still drank alcohol despite it being illegal, except they hid their immorality (Taylor and Taylor 212). Youth comment that adults assume if they don’t talk about it, it somehow makes the action more moral. Young adults on the other hand will engage in actions that are prohibited or immoral, but admit to it. To youth adults are simply hypocritical in every aspect they criticize young adults for. The article takes the position that youth will deal with tragedy, loss of hope, and the grueling struggles of the everyday life, but they prefer to be real with it and present it in their music.