Hip Hop glorifies Violence

BALTIMORE, MD- Hip Hop has moved away from community issues to glorifying violence and over sexualization women, according to artists and Morgan State students.

“There are certain aspects of Hip Hop that are unhealthy and our detrimental to our community. I have an issue with the glorification of murder inside of Hip Hop there is a difference between narration and glorification,” said Dee-1, an independent Christian artist who spoke on the Art of Dialogue podcast.

Dee 1 said that hip hop has had positive influences but we shouldn’t ignore the negative.

We allowed Hip Hop to do the work of the devil.”

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Many recent songs like Rocko 2013 hit U.E.N.O which contains the lyrics, “Put Molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it, I took her home and enjoyed, she ain't even know it.” Also, YNW Melly wrote the 2017 song Murder on My Mind which contains the lyrics, “I wake up in the morning I got murder on my mind.”

Certain women believed that the hip hop does oversexualizes woman and how it has become a norm in the hip hop society

“Nowadays you would expect it to come out  mostly men, but we do it as well and I don’t know if it this idea that we need to do in order to have a popular hit,” said Nia Badger, a junior multimedia journalism student at Morgan State University.

Nia Badger also discussed certain artist like PartyNextDoor, Drake, and Cardi B.

“It bad but it became normal,” said Badger.

Baltimore poet, Sunny Ray Walker, blame the record labels for  glorifying violence        

“After they [The record labels] discovered it influence, they said they were looking at it from a macro and we were still looking at it as fun.”

Walker also spoke about how the labels have helped to create a division between hip-hop and rap

“ Hip Hop is  more community it more of a culture, we're gonna separate the culture from the lifestyle of  rapping, we're going to give rapping some validation.”

As Some people look into the future of hip hop they expect a major change for the worse as the music get more violent. They are hopeful that young people will look towards more positive music and get the industry to promote such music.

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By Julian Revelle

Contributions: Arts of Dialouge Podcast, NBC News, National Civil Rights Museum, The Conversation

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