Listening to rap makes you more violent and suseptible to drug use......

[Drudge]

 According to new study.

Even rappers are stating they can't defend the state of rap. Popular rap has lost its substance.



http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1528932/20060418/index.jhtml?headlines=true

If you listen to rap music, you're more likely to use alcohol and drugs and to behave in an aggressive manner — at least according to a new study by the nonprofit Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.

More than 1,200 California

 

 
 
community-college students ages 15-25 took part in the study — titled "Music, Substance Use and Aggression" — and answered survey questions about their music-listening habits, use of alcohol and drugs and "aggressive behaviors," such as fighting or threatening people with violence.

The results found that almost 70 percent of the students who listened to music "daily or almost daily" listened to rap and hip-hop, and when that data was compared with the students' answers about alcohol, drugs and violence, the survey found that "substance use and aggressive behaviors among young people were significantly associated to certain genres of popular music," mainly rap, reggae, rock and techno.

"Before we began the survey, we were studying alcohol advertising, and we noticed rap music and rap performers were being used in promoting alcoholic beverages," said Dr. Meng-Jinn Chen, the lead author of the report. "So we were aware that young people loved rap music, so there are a lot of concerns raised about the impact of the music on them."

Chen said she wanted to make it clear that the study — which will be published in May in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol — is by no means a condemnation of rap music (she has nieces and nephews "who absolutely listen to rap," she said). But Chen did say the study should raise concerns about whether or not advertising agencies should continue using rap music and icons in their advertising.

"The survey found that young people who listen to hip-hop use alcohol and drugs and engage in violent behavior, so this raises serious questions as to whether or not rap and hip-hop should be used to market alcoholic beverages," Chen said. "Our findings suggest there is a link between rap and violence and that it's irresponsible for advertisers to continue to prey on those behaviors."

And though Chen says she's happy with the survey, she's quick to point out that it's by no means comprehensive. Though the sample group was diverse — 57 percent female, 27 percent Latino American, 5 percent black — she said she hopes to do a larger survey in the near future. She said she hopes readers will realize that the survey cannot determine whether or not rap lyrics influence people to drink alcohol or if people who drink alcohol are drawn to the music.

"We want the reader to know that we are not sure. This survey can only show the association between the behavior and listening to the music," she said. "We don't want people to misuse the information we report; we want people to read the report and talk to me. But I think that the reason we reported this is because we think we need to ask why alcohol companies use these rappers in their commercials."

— James Montgomery

[QuietTruth]

FUCK with the damn studies

[Z the laidback Virus]

Bullshit, I listen hiphop all the time and I hardly drink and am among the most non-violent people on earth.

[Machiavelli]

Bullshit, I listen hiphop all the time and I hardly drink and am among the most non-violent people on earth.

yeah same,  except i do steal alot need to cut back on taht 

[BizzyR.I.P.]

Thanx for the heads up. I've been listening to rap since I was 6 and I've taken zero drugs. I should stop listening to rap before it forces me into a drug addiction

[Eihtball]

There's already a topic about this:

http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?topic=107806.0

[Peacock]

bullshit

[Semir]

B/S I only drink coz it's fun and I smoke weed sometimes but it's not coz of the music or something...

[Ðøšïå]

i get drunk because j kwon makes it sound like the cool thing to do.

[coola]

i dont think hip-hop makes people take drugs... it de-sensitizes people to them, becauase theyre talked about all the time..

plus hip-hop is so much more enjoyable wasted 

it can affect how people think though, it embeds certain values into the way people think... ie, no snitching, taking no bullshit from no-one, eye for an eye, ego tripping etc.

dont need studies to realise this is highly likely.

[Active Ingredient]

i guess it can lead to those things if your prone to do it anyway.

im non violent as fuck and realy laid back too, plus i listen to rap all the time. shit, its all i listen too.

on the other hand, i smoke a gang of weed but i dont know if it has anything to do with rap. although, when i hear a song about smoking it does make me wanna

if your dumb and easily influenced then yea, i can see how this study makes sense, but you cant paint everybody who listens to rap with the same brush.

[UKnowWhatItIs: welcome to my traps....game over]

i get drunk because j kwon makes it sound like the cool thing to do.

lmao