Music

"Turn that music off! I don't want you listening to that kind of music." Many teens these days are experiencing this kind of thing almost every day. Do explicit rap lyrics affect the youth? Many parents, in general, have complained and tried to regulate the music that teens are listening to these days saying that explicit rap lyrics affect their youth in a negative way. They complain that the music industry shouldn't be able to …

…right and wrong is. Just cause an artist says something like, "I gonna bust a cap in yo ass," that doesn't mean that it is right and that they are really going to do that. The fact of the matter is if the parents and other critics of the "gangsta rap" care so much about how the music is going to affect their kids than they themselves should regulate what their kids are listing too.