Music's Important Influence

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Music has been around for thousands of years. Music appeals to
everyone. When was the last time you have heard someone say, "I hate
all music."? Lately though music has been criticized for corrupting
teen's minds. Rap is being blamed for all the crimes and murders in
cities all over America and heavy metal is being blamed for giving
teens only dark images and thoughts in their minds. Although the media
and public criticize rap and rock music and blame the music for
influencing teens negatively, they actually give many teenagers an
outlet from their life problems.

Parents love to blame musicians like Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre to
bands like KoRn and Limp Bizkit for their child's problems. Music is
an excuse for bad parenting. "One should look at the family background
of the person committing the crimes" (Foster 3). Most criminals come
from dysfunctional families, which would explain why a person would
turn to crime in life. Another reason a person would turn to crime is
being sexually abused as a young child. This would definitely cause a
person to go a little crazy. When someone hears some lyrics from
Eminem, they do not go out and do what he says. Lyrics from Eminem and
other similar lyrics are for entertainment only. If people did
whatever they heard, then everybody would be evil and corrupted I hear
far worse words and phrases during school than on a rap album, and the
words do not effect me or anybody else otherwise everybody in school
would run around shooting people and doing drugs.

Rappers are blamed constantly for crimes. In 1988, rapper Ice-T
was under the gun from the media because of a song he wrote called,
"Cop Killa". Once that song was released several police murderers said
they did it because of Ice-T's song. "But is it Ice-T's fault fore
these crimes, or is it the fault of the person committing these crimes
against the police" (Foster 2). Foster asks an inte...