Popular Music And Its Effect On Society

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enerations lashed back after the two deaths and began to claim gangster rap was leaving bad impressions on adolescents.
In response to the negative press gangster rap was receiving after the deaths of these two rappers, Peter Slaughter of the Barutiwa Weekly News felt obligated to speak out on behalf of African Americans. He describes how rap music was initially developed to stop violence and keep the peace between gang members. In his opinion it is because of “racist Whites and Euro centric-minded Blacks who lack understanding of rap and its different messages [that so] much confusion and distortion concerning [the] art form has resulted” (Slaughter). Slaughter goes on to say that the real gangsters in the history of the country stole the land from the Indians and kidnapped the Africans from their homelands to work for free on land that was stolen in the first place. In Slaughters opinion, everything that Tupac and Biggie did or rapped about was “microscopic in comparison to w...