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Annotated Bibliography

Is rap really the finger that pulls the trigger of todays youth

Troy Austin
Professor Malcolm Campbell
English 1103
3/16/2016

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Annotated Bibliography
Cashmore, Pete. "Putting the Rap into Therapy: Can Listening to Hip-hop Beat
Depression?" The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 11 Nov. 2014. Web. 16 Mar.
2016.- I liked this source a lot because it talks about the largely positive effects that Rap
music can have on the youth of today. It emphasizes the Rags to riches story that is so
often shows through in the lives of many rappers. I really feel that this can be shown as a
positive image of success for many of todays youth who cannot relate to the more
common role models enjoyed by more well off youth. This theme in my mind is a lot of
times equivalent to the way that todays youth are more likely to look up to someone who
made it from a situation close to theirs, things like Professional sports players and rappers
instead of Ceos or other examples. These role models have prompted a lot of students to
pay more attention in school in order to keep playing these sports or to get in touch with
the right people to continue rapping.

Giovacchini, Anthony. "The Negative Influence of Gangster Rap And What Can Be Done
About It." The Negative Influence of Gangster Rap And What Can Be Done About It.
N.p., 4 June 1999. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.- This article talks a lot of the negative aspects that
gangster rapping has had on the youth of today, Rap has had a trend of being increasingly
more violent as it has gone on with a lot of songs putting a bigger focus on guns,
violence, drugs, alcohol, sex, and the degradation of women in todays society. This is
something I plan to talk exclusively on in my paper as well as on the argument that it is
not the music that has brought about the change in society but rather societys downward
swing and the way that gangsters choose to operate more openly.

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JOHNSON, CAITLIN. "Rap Criticism Grows Within Own Community." CBSNews.

CBS Interactive, 6 Mar. 2007. Web. 16 Mar. 2016.-This article talks a lot about the
love/hate relationship a lot of people have developed towards rap music. The article
speaks on how the community as a whole that rap music speaks about has become
increasingly frustrated with the encouragement that rappers give to the youth about thug
life in todays society, choosing to glorify the good while not exposing the numerous
difficulties. A lot of people who listen to rap music feel like by supporting some of it they
support all of it, Rap has chosen a route that excludes a lot of groups of people.

Tropeano, Eliana. "Does Rap or Rock Music Provoke Violent Behavior?" Does Rap or
Rock Music Provoke Violent Behavior? 1 (n.d.): n. pag. Http://library.wcsu.edu/. Journal
of Undergraduate Psychological Research, 2006. Web. 15 Mar. 2016.- Youth are very
impressionable and this is made very clear by the experiment that was conducted by
western Connecticut State University. Rap music is common to have a lot of aggressive
undertones and messages of violence and this experiment uses a lot of solid scientific
evidence to support this idea, I plan to build my paper partly around this so I am very
happy to have this as my fourth source.