Is it possible for hip hop music to have a positive influence on teenagers? If the music is popular in its own nature, then it should possess a positive effect. But the question is whether hip hop music influence can remain positive. The older version of hip hop had a greater influence, and truly was not as positive as people might have wanted.
The hip hop music influence in those days was dark, filled with anarchy and violence, targeting every aspect of life outside the inner city. Being created by people with a distorted view of equality and who are tired of the system, it influences people to think only for themselves. The darkness within each teenage listener was stirred as they listen to lyrics of hate and degradation against people, leading them to do acts least expected of them.
To achieve a positive influence over your listeners, especially impressionable teens, the music must have a positive influence. Now, early hip hop music lacks that. Society blamed the music for the teens’ bad behavior. When a genre is disliked, it has tendency to be blamed by society, overlooking the things that they themselves lack.
This influence over the years has changed as the music itself changed. Modern artists revived poetry in hip hop, and almost nearly eradicated violent themes. Now, we have a focus of theme that critics like to call pop wannabes. Something must have been going right, because in spite of its critics, hip hop music influence is bigger than ever.
The positive tones of the hip hop music influence today has brought back ideas of romancing your loves instead of harming them to get what you want, and is beginning to spread the word of how giving back to your society is more important than tearing it down. Perhaps the new artists have learned the lessons that many of the founding artists did not. That living hard, fast and brutal will lead you nowhere but towards self destruction. Ending up either dead or in jail, many of them regret the pasts that they’ve lived.
Those who made it, on the other hand, made it big, and have used the hip hop music influence to create positive projects that are being embraced by their fans. Many of them organized volunteer groups that are formed to help improve the lives of people living in the cities they grew up in. Consequently, fans all over, follow their example and many volunteer to help.
If the hip hop music influence can be called anything today, it should be evolving. Many of the current artists have overcome difficulties in their lives, and have made that a theme that they are rebuilding their careers around. That influence has had a positive effect on many of their listeners, especially in today’s economy. Rather than radiate rage, they create themselves a better image, standing for a better cause.