Does rap music contribute to violent crime?

everytime i hear lame-ass songs by any "Lil" or "Young" rapper i want to shoot somebody

No, inner-city poverty, poor urban planning and a society that glorifies the rich and blames the ethnic poor for their own disenfranchisement does though.

the concepts and the aurora that surrounds rap and the rappers, sure don't help young ones and crime....
i heard one of the FILTHIEST rap cd's ,by mistake , a few months ago ...I HONESTLY did not know people could be so filthy and actually be allowed to market such......i broke into and put in the first trash can I came to...it was my son in laws and in my car cd.....i was appalled...

Rap can't make you do crime but you might get the idea.

yes

I think violent criminals contribute to rap music and I use the term music very loosely.

some does, some doesn't, just like every other type of music out there. the type of music doesn't matter, any type of music can have good or bad lyrics.

I think violent crime contributes to Rap.
But it works both ways.

Absolutely, for evidence of this you just have to remember that during the crusades, all they done was listen to rap music and play violent videogames, well they must have, since people are not violent without being encouraged to be by rap music or videogames, according to those who possess brains made purely of jelly.

Yes. Everything a human experiences in his/her life contribute to their attitude to things

Does country music contribute to divorce, infidelity or truck sales? Oh wait...

Seriously, I read somewhere some time ago a study that found a correlation between increased country radio station ratings and suicide.

Of course it does-- not absolutely nor in all cases, but in a significant enough number of instances to validate that it does. (I refer particularly to "gangsta rap" and other "hardcore" forms of rap.)

As the violent images, put to words and those words are put to music, the listener is seduced into embracing the concepts rapped about. The listener either starts to believe that they are "rapping about reality" already in existence or begins to prophecy to himself/herself that this is their own personal reality and then begins to act it out. If it wasn't indicative of the hearer's real circumstances, then the fantasy/delusion/acceptance of the lyrics' portrayal of life becomes what they expect of life and they subsequently attract/provoke circumstances to reflect what they have been conditioned to believe by the music.

I do not deny that some of what is rapped about borrows from the real circumstances of real people somewhere. However, I do contend that it is not always the reality of the one listening. The more entertaining the beat, the more accepting of the lyrics, the listener becomes.

Psychologists have done many studies on is recorded in the subliminal and unconscious realms of the mind. Consciously, the hearer may choose to listen to this type of music and both consciously and unconsciously, he/she subjects himself to a degree of conditioning by the lyrics. Avoid it-- it is toxic!

No rap music does not contribute to violent crime due simply to human nature. By the time someone is old enough to commit a "violent crime" he/she already has his/her set of moral standards and such which, more often than not, is not influenced by music of any sort. Also, music is more or less a reflection of one's attitudes and such and is not so much an influence. Finally, not all rap music sends a bad message. There are some Christian rap groups out there.

In general, it definitely glorifies crime and promotes drug and criminal culture. I don't see how that is even debatable.

no, black/gang culture does though...

Aye.. indeed but so does most.

does it cause it all on it's own.... I doubt it.... but as a part of a culture which glorifies in criminal and moraly decrepit behaviors yes it contributes. the alleged music has this influence by unconciously validating desires to behave in that manner and justifies it. also casualy boasting about murder can cause the listener to feel since they only steal they are doing pretty good by comparison.

music is far more influencial than most people want to admit. if you listen to angry music all the time you will find yourself more angry more often for less cause.

does this mean it should be illegal? not in the slightest. we already have too many laws and people need to be responsible for their actions regardless of contributing influences. however my son will not be listening to such music in my house no matter how old he is. and until he is 18 he will not be hanging out with people who I find are playing that stuff in his presence.

Nope. Stupid people do that all by themselves.

I believe Rap some rap music does conribute to crime. Some Artist send out the wrong mesage to young people out there. Teenagers look up to people like this as their idols and the tend to believe that if they do what their fav stars do, It will make them be like them.

Ok, I refer this to myself because lask week I didnt know what hairstyle to do and then I was watching a video of my favourite artist. I thought, Wow I love her and I love her hair. So i went ahead and got a hair cut like hair. Now, it starts with lil things like this and end to big tings like.... Listen to rap, watching the video and thinking. I want to get girls like him, want a car like that. So the begin to steel to have money to pick a girl they want, buy a car. etc.

Many boys these days are involving music on Money, Girls ad shinny weel. It doesn't have to be that way. I think they are corrupting the youth out there and It's not a good look.

From my point of view, I think yes some rap music does contribute to violence. expect Gospel rap! There are good inspiration.

No..we can blame Music or TV or role models..and so on..its down to the individual..we all have the freedom to choose whether to do good or bad in our lives..

TV contributes to violent crime. If rap music is shown/played on TV the answer is yes., Our society more and more looks to acts of violence in the guise of sport to be entertained with

Do jazz and opera contribute to white collar crime? Why do people still ask this?

Many factors contribute to violent crime. Does rap? In some instances yes. It's important to recognize that people act in the best way they know how, based on the knowledge they have obtained up to the point of said action. So if they grow to agree it's necessary to use violence to achieve a desired goal because of rap, then yes it is indeed partially rap's fault.

The most pertinent contibuting factor, imho, is that society tells us it's ok to use violence in some cases. For example, we need to go to war in Afghanistan to stop terrorism is telling American citizens that it is ok to use violence, but only sometimes. However, if you combine that with a realization that gov't isn't always right, then you have paved the way for ordinary people to use violence to solve their problems. Drug users are prevalent through rap, as an example, and if you use drugs then it should suffice to say that you don't think the gov't is right about making drugs illegal. That's where you combine gov't actions with gov't morality codes, and then apply them to your own personal code of conduct.

I, for one, don't think the gov't is always right, therefore don't abide by all their laws, but I also don't use their actions to determine my own, as I am a pacifist.

No... just the rappers, people who listen to rap music, single mothers who like rappers, and their bastard crack-baby children contribute to violent crime.

No they have violent concepts.. ever heard of krumping? thats the most "voitlent" rap thing i can think of and even thats not violent....

Yes, and no. They talk about violence because it is already there. They aren't making this stuff up. On the other hand it can and does influence young kids to think its ok, or glorify it. Even so, it wouldn't happen if it wasn't already happening.

Nope it contributes to violent crimes as much as metal contributes to violent crimes.

Having a mindset thats far below integrity values contributes one to commit violent crimes! If you have integrity but are still below having an open mind, you are still alot less likely to commit a violent crime! Maybe some misdameaners, or low class felonies like drunk driving, but no hardcore felonies! ALMOST ALL MAX SECURITY PRISON INMATES LACK INTEGRITY!

Rap music does not cause violence. If so, then so does every other form of music we listen to. The people who claim that rap does promote violent crimes are just those that do not like this form of music. This music reflects culture and what some of it's listeners go through every day. Rap is merely a life story in many cases. A person has a choice of every action they partake in so there.

Some might

No.

It started with drug addicts and thugs from gangs. Naturaly they won't sing gospel

Yes. It often contains violent messages including homophobic messages.

YES, rap does contribute to violent crime. The ones committing it are young black males without a father figure or any male guidance. Their mother flit from boyfriend to boyfriend (and those never stick around do to unfaithfulness, or being criminals themselves, they get locked up) who is only with them for the sex, and wants nothing to do with "anotha nigga's kid" The young males find this needed male guidance in gangsta rappers, who's songs they see as a guideline for the behavior a black man is supposed to exhibit. They start acting on it in their early teens, becoming career criminals because they think that's the way a black man' supposed to be. If there is a black kid in the projects who doesn't like rap, has a father present, and doesn't allow himself to be influenced by brainwashed friends into joining them on their crimes, he will not become a criminal. I'm living proof, but my situation was rare due to, like I said, no fathers present in the VAST majority of urban black teens' lives. Momma just has a different boyfriend every month or so. It seems what we have here is a bunch of people who never lived in the projects amongst this crap pontificating about a matter they are thinking shallowly upon.

yeah, as well as the other way around.
it doesnt make people go out and shoot up places, but it sure does make people think they are bad asses who can. and then eventually get the balls to. not because of the music itself, but because they are too stupid to not take it the wrong way and it peps them up to make them think they're hot shit.

its all about the ego, toke mo and rip slow. that milky white from the purple haze is outta sight. i got four o's from the nigga i robbed, a gat 2 grams oh blow, and his 94 impala. i roll slow in the red car, spot and unmarked from real far, drop the lid real low as ta hide my face, nigga im wanted, i dont need no fucking chase. as for rap music, i tell it how is, how it happened to me, my arrest for murder in ninteen ninty three, with duce duce, and the quatro cinco in the back of the honda, i didnt kill the bitch, it wasnt me. now death row is the only thing i see, nigga im violent and thats all ill eva be.

nobody and nothing can make anyone do anything but it might influence a decision to do a violent crime.

To the extent that rap lyricists glorify violent crime and trivialize the pain that violence causes, I would say yes.

But, as noted by many others, it's unlikely that the 16-year-old Conner McBigBucks III listening to 'gangsta rap' in his McMansion in lilly-white suburbia is going to be driven to crime by such listening.

It is more likely the case that people who live in circumstances that tend to promote violent crime also happen to listen to violent rap music.

Of course, I was incited to do serious damage to some cupcakes by these rap videos...;-D....

its only going to contribute into a person's violent behavior, when parents aren't capable to influence on their behavior instead. in other words, people will start to get influenced by the music they listen to when their parents fail at parenting, because children will find an influence from whatever they can relate to the most, and that they see that works the best for people.... SOME rap (gangsta rap), does give the image that gangsters have a lot of money and women and nice cars.... if a kid's parents are a bunch of losers that cant even deal with their own life, they'll look for whatever best influence they can find, even if its a bad influence.

Not necessarily. I think it just gives a voice to the violent urges that are already there. If people want to commit crimes, they will, whether or not they listen to violent music. I am not saying that I like the violent, misogynistic lyrics in many rap songs, but we do need to hold people accountable for their own actions.

no not really, it just talks about how the crime happend and the hardship of a problem, its actually poetry

yes , and vise versa. violent crime contributes to rap music .

I don't believe it does, but if in some strange way does, certainly no more than
violent movies made in Hollywood or more than violent video games.

Does drug abuse contribute to ________? Fill in the blank with whatever you like! And as others have astutely mentioned, music, drugs, etc., IN AND OF THEMSELVES, are not the problem. It's the person; the individual who is responsible. Any judge who has any objectivity will not buy the old "But it was the music that made me do it!" excuse. And that's ALL it is...an excuse! I'm not responsible for raping (hypothetical analogy, folks!) a woman because I use the excuse that she was dressed so hot that I couldn't help myself? PLEASE... I still listen to some good old classic rock 'n roll from the 60s (great example - Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit") but I don't run out and score because Grace Slick is telling me to "feed [my] head."

Rape does not contribute to violence.People just make up stories it being violence because of the style.

No rap music does not contribute to violent crime due simply to human nature. People who listen to music and are old enough to commit "violent crime" already have their moral standards and such and will do whatever they please. Their music is simply a reflection of their attitudes and such as this, not so much an influence. Also, not all rap music sends a bad message, because there are some Christian rap groups out there.

Possibly.

A pen may contribute to writing but only when the ink, hand and knowledge is also present.

When one plays rap music it does not create the violence, however, being violent or waching violence whilst the music is playing may connect the two unconsciously, thus make them feel anger the next time they hear the music.

No!!!!

I keep on thinking I found a right on tune then the artist does something to bolster his ego...oh well keep trying.