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Lyrics have become more explicit in their references to drugs, sex, and violence
over the years.
Lyrics of some music genres, such as rock, heavy metal, rap, and new emerging
genres such as reggaeton, have been found to revolve around topics such as sexual
promiscuity, death, homicide, suicide, and substance abuse
Approximately 17% of male adolescents and 25% of female adolescents
expressed that they liked their favorite songs specifically because the lyrics were a
reflection of their feelings
effects of popular music on behavior, several studies have demonstrated that
preference for certain types of music could be correlated or associated with certain
behaviors,*such as the association of drug and alcohol use with rave music or
electronic music dance events
Heavy metal music-listening has also been associated with increased depression,
delinquency risk behavior, smoking, and conduct problems
MTV had the highest percentage of alcohol representation and also the highest
percentage of videos that portrayed smoking behaviors (25.7%). Of these videos, rap
music videos showed a higher content of alcohol or tobacco use than did other types of
videos
In 2003, Wingwood et al89 reported on a study in which 522 black female
adolescents with a median exposure to rap music videos of 14 hours per week were
followed for 12 months. After controlling for all the covariates, greater exposure to rap
music videos was independently associated with a wide variety of risky behaviors such as
increased promiscuity and use of drugs and alcohol
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Rappers boast about crack and selling, rags to riches Jay Z is an example
[h]ip hop music is black American music. Even with its hybridity.
There is also Fat Joe, who, in his 2004 hit,Lean Back, describes how he got his
other name, Joey Crack
two images, one is 50 cent in get rich or die trying poster holding pistol and
microphone in christlike pose other is a Reebok sneaker ad, which features Jay-Z, whose
life similarly reflects 50s rise from crack dealer to rap star to corporate executive.
The ad is split into two panels
rags-to-riches, streets-to-boardroom-suites success stories have become some of
the most recognizable identity myths at the core of the rap industry. The significance of
this mythology, however, liesnot in the mere fact that street and suite are fused, but in the
characteization of both crack and rap as specific kinds of work
rap artists also call crack work. This can be heard, forexample, in Boot Camp
Cliks warning to stash the work in your sock to avoid getting knocked by the
police. Or in Jay-Zs boast about having whole blocks pumping my work.
Jay-Zs description of how he transitioned from Marcy Projectsa large
public housing development in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn
to the record industry. In his words, he entered the rap game with hundreds of
thousands of dollars: Nine to be exact from grinding G-packs.
family, never been about fame/ Some days I wasnt Able, there was always Cain.
Raekwon the Chefan original member of the highly influential New York
City
based group, Wu-Tang Clanwho includes a picture of himself in the liner notes of his
famous first album, Only Built for Cuban Linx which shows him cooking up crack on the
stove, clearly suggesting how he got the name Chef
raps connection to crack can best be seen in the chorus of a Juelz Santana
song called, simply, I am Crack: Touch the coke, touch the pot, add the soda
There is no question that at a certain level, moderate use of marijuana and alcohol
will engender a feeling of relaxation that can facilitate the flow of ideas and also reduce
inhibitions
In the late 1980s, Charlie Watts said of 25 years in the Rolling Stones, It's been
five years of playing and 20 years of hanging about. Drug and alcohol use can simply be
a way to relieve the boredom of hours spent in airport lounges, hotel rooms, and studios.
substance misuse appears inextricably woven into the fabric of the music
business, and therefore it is not surprising that musicians want to write about their drug
and alcohol experiences as they write about a range of topics that affect their lives. But
this has left the business mired in controversy as claims are made that musicians are
encouraging the use of drugs among their young audiences and that they have a duty as
role models to be more the model citizen than many of them can seem to manage.
This dates to the 1930s, when jazz musicians under the threat of heavy prison
sentences would sing about reefer and muggles (marijuana); kicking the gong around
(opium smoking), and wacky dust (cocaine)
A study by Brian Primack, Madeline Dalton, Mary Carroll, Aaron Agarwal, and
Michael Fine, published in 2008, made much of the amount of time young people are
exposed to music as opposed to health education in schools.
debate continues about whether the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds was really about LSD; even the Beatles have made contradictory comments
on this point.
These songs are focused on the individual experience of the composer, but there
have been a plethora of songs from black soul, hip-hop, and rap musicians commenting
on the devastation that drugs, especially heroin and crack, have wrought within the black
community. Songs about marijuana err more on the positive side, most prominently in
reggae, where marijuana (ganja) is regarded by Rastafarians as a religious sacrament in
much the same way that wine is used in Catholicism.
Of the 279 songs, 93 (33.3%) portrayed substance use, with an average of 35.2
substance references per song-hour
1 or more references in 3 of 35 pop songs (9%), 9 of 66 rock songs (14%), 11 of
55 R&B/hip-hop songs (20%), 22 of 61 country songs (36%), and 48 of 62 rap songs
(77%).