Essay On First Amendment Rights

Although there is a fair share of people that are offended by some of today’s music, the First Amendment rights shouldn’t be taken away. Some alternatives that could be considered are disclaimers. Disclaimers could be presented at the beginning of each song or video so the listener would have the opportunity to change the song or channel.

According to the First Amendment, artists should be protected by the freedom of speech which by law should protect the artist from any censorship. For example, if a rapper uses vulgar language in one of their songs and raps about fighting or killing their enemy, it doesn’t necessarily mean that whoever is listening will go out and commit a murder. If you’re an adult, you can’t blame a song or an artist for your actions. Whatever an artist says in their music isn’t mean’t to be taken verbatim, in most situations the lyrics are just for entertainment, nothing more. Most people that support the censorship of music are only supporting it for personal reasons. Most people are willing to give up their freedom of speech just because they don’t agree with 21 Savage’s views on religion and how he lived his life or how Lil Wayne chooses to be in a gang or smokes weed.

Censoring music is
When restrictions and limitations are placed on the way you produce your music, it will definitely be much more difficult to create and innovate when it comes to new ideas. That creative cap will eventually result in artist to lose motivation to keep doing what they do with the restrictions of what they can do living in the back of their brain at all times. Artist discouragement would be at an all time high because of the loss of ways to expression their music. That would result in the art eventually being destroyed because the meaning of a song could be changed. For example, Chief Keef’s “I Don’t Like” has most of the lyrics edited out so you never really get to understand what Chief Keef doesn’t