Hip Hop Music Influence On Youth Essay

Society does not realize how much music has an impact on children growing up today. It’s an important role in socializing or doing daily tasks and activities. It’s not a proven fact, but without music the world we live in would be boring and dull. Music inspires us and it gives us sense of meaning. The youth of today’s generation relies on music to do so many things. It influences their behavior, forms their identities, and social lives.
Today new and upcoming artist have changed the face of music. Hip-hop being the most changed. Hip Hop music made African-American men feel proud to be black and empowered. It inspired them to be someone, they knew how to respect those around them, and were taught more than just lust and violence. Hip-hop music today is now about greed, money, sex, disrespecting woman, and …show more content…
It shapes today’s generations and the next generations after, so why not make it inspiring and positive? Money and popularity; if it is not the beginning of a new trend that music producers feel is going to make them popular or profitable it won’t happen. In order to restore music back to being respectful and inspiring I believe we need new artist(s) who want to be that role model for the young upcoming generation. Or current artists would have to rethink their music. They’d have to write new lyrics that were motivational, positive and had an inspiring meaning. They show them how being respectful and educated was the path to follow instead of wasting away with party’s and drugs. They could be more informed about how statistically they impact the younger youth and how their behaviors have changed because of the music they have created. For any of this to take place, In order to get through to today’s generation anything “trending” would have to be so popular they see it all over social media. If the music industry does not see any good social trend from the new inspiring and positive music they won’t continue to