Hip hop has been around since the early 70s. Some may say it was originated in New York and others may disagree (History of Hip Hop style, 2012). However, we can all come to one conclusion that hip hop is influential. Hip hop 's largest fan base is the teenager population. It has changed over time from Run-DMC to now Lil Wayne and Drake. Hip hop will always be hip hop but it has changed overtime. It is different because of the message it sends . Teenagers are heavily influenced by the messages in Hip Hop music..
Hip hop came from a mixture of different types of music genres. Hip hop was first rhyming and mixing different beats. The beats …show more content…
You can recall the year of the song or when you listened to it. Music helps you remember things because it send pathways to the brain ”Ms.Jackson”. She gave me an example of how she remembers the days of the week . She sings a song to help her remember. Also, a study shows that people with Alzheimer’s disease listen to music and it helps them with their memory( (Klowoski, 2011). I use music in my own life to help me remember things in life . Another good thing about music is that it can boost your Immune system. As we all know that the immune system take cares of the health of the human body. Without it we could not live. Music can has the ability to make people happy. Happiness is the opposite of stress and many people are stressed everyday. Music decreases stress and makes things better. For example , upbeat dance music and soothing music as well can increase the number of antibodies in your immune system.( …show more content…
The videos can impact their lives. The typical American teenager watches 30 hours of television. (science daily , 2012). 52 % of boys and 26 % of girls reported on average of 42 hours of television watched .The lower levels of education is when more kids watch television. The other with higher education watches less television (science daily, 2012). The music videos have 1 or more violent scene in it. All the music videos accounts for 200,000 acts of violence (Parker, 2012).
Music can be timely and can take up most of a teenager’s life. Hip hop music especially is important to teenagers. Music can take up a teenager’s time, money, and can influence how they act. Hip hop music has had a bad reputation because of the number of bad things they say but hip hop is what it is. It is great music and influential. Hip hop has been around for a long time and will continue to be around for time to