Eminem And Influence
... profanity in rap lyrics effecting our kids? I would like to investigate how and why Will Smith achieved musical fame through his clean lyrics. I would also like to look at the impact that Tupac and BIG’s deaths had on people and rap itself. I found three sources from newspapers and three sources from magazines. I found both from the Internet on EBSCOhost and Lexis-Nexis databases. Both types of sources have info on rap artists and rap it self. Most of the information is from with in the past five years. I have found an interesting source from 1988, just when rap was starting to become main stream with society. I also have another source from 1992. That is when people began realizing the dangerous influence of rap lyrics. The specific kinds of information that will be collected will be on, if and how Tupac and BIG’s deaths affected the way people viewed rap lyrics. I will also gather info on Will Smith’s fame achieved through good rap lyrics. I will also collect information on Tipper Gore what she did to try to prevent rap lyrics from reaching our youth. I also plan to see if there is a link between rap lyrics and violence. The conclusions I will come to through gathering info, I can come up with the effects of crude rap lyrics on our youth. I can see how much of a good role model Will Smith is with his positive lyrics. By viewing the examples of famous rap artist’s deaths, I can show the dangerous, violent ways of life some rap artists sing about in their lyrics, and prove the dangers of living out those lyrics to our youth. “They [rap artists] want their lyrics to reflect the lives they witness. Some of them live the lives they rap about” (“More-Responsible” 20). In this day-in-age, virtually every household has a television set. It is easy, sometimes without thought, to sit down, turn on the TV, and believe everything seen. This is a problem that no one realizes, but happens everyday. Taking for granted one has the world at fingertip’s reach is not the problem. The problem lies underneath, where the stories are told through eyes that are controlled by what they believe the public should and should not see. With the television “boom” in the 1950’s, American people began to view the world around them in a very different light. People began to see, in detail, the life-shaping events that in the past, they had only heard about. By the late 1950’s to the early 1960’s, a lot of families in America had television sets; it was a decade that created a milestone in television broadcasting. As in the past, entertainment was still an important aspect of television, but for the first time, television began to reflect the turmoil that marked American life. In a time of inequality, war and degradation, and a corrupt government, television functioned as the vehicle that brought the “real” world home to millions of citizens. As citizens watched their fellow Americans struggle through hardships and lose their lives, many were compelled to become involved; all were forced to question the justness of the world. Through the use of television, many changes were made in America. This new means of being informed was a major breakthrough for America, but television was not without its drawbacks. What makes the six o’clock news is highly selective and usually edited. Because a small group of people, citizens who are wealthy and affluent, decide on what is newsworthy, news is automatically biased in portraying what is viewed as important in society. Videos shown are also prejudiced in that they do not always show the whole scene--they are taken at the disgression of the cameraman. Although the function of television is designed to keep viewers informed, it is also designed in such a manner that limits what the viewers actually see. Many citizens shape strong opinions based on what they see on television, unaware that what they are seeing is not reality, only an attempt to recreate reality from a particular group’s or individual’s viewpoint. There are two sides to every story, and unfortunately, television only tells one. With both positive and negative affects, television managed to stir up emotions and cause change in America in a way that radio alone could never have done. Because television was especially powerful and influential during this time, viewers were compelled to challenge society’s morals and question the character of political figures and the crookedness of the government. Television brought the sense of reality into the living room, therefore one could no longer ignore local, as well as, national problems. For the first time, people were forced to react--some in a passive manner, but many in an active way. Take for example the television coverage of the Civil Rights Movement. For many whites, the issue of segregation did not affect them first-hand, and they did not se...