Hip Hop's Influence On Black Culture

“Ballin' like the March Madness All these cops shooting niggas, tragic” (Future – March Madness). This is a lyric from a Future song titled “March Madness”. It talks about cops shooting Blacks for no reason. It’s about killing and it caused a lot of influence to communities, this is the problem with hip hop. Hip Hop is an African American music that express Black culture. Black culture is made up of brutality, women, money, and clothes. Hip hop started by rappers talking about what they believed in. Then it began discussing the act of using violence to settle the problems they had. Finally transitioned into discussing flashing money, showing off lavaliere and clothes, and causing violence. Through all of this people were influenced. Now, people are participating in violent behaviors. Hip hop is basically a violent influence towards its audience. Although Hip hop speaks about African American struggles, it is known to cause young African American to engage in violent …show more content…
The more rappers were packaged as violent black criminals the bigger their white audience become...Rap’s appeal to whites rested in evocation of age-old image of blackness: A foreign, sexually changed, and criminal underworld against which the norms of white society are defined, and, by extension, through which they may be defied. (Lee LaGrone)
As David Samuels explains, whites look at rappers to determine how African Americans act. They think Blacks are highly sexual and mostly criminals. Whites look at blacks as entertainment. African Americans show they are as unclassy as whites believe, and that blacks do not have class or self-respect for our race. Rappers make African American look less of what they are by exposing all of their body and talking about how they treat them using their lyrics. Whites like to see Blacks act a fool and show our behinds. It process that blacks are or act as they see blacks and of