Introduction

Hello, my name is Denrick Bautista. I attend California State University, Northridge. I grew up in North Hills just a few miles from campus. I have been listening to hip hop music for as long as I can remember.

When listening to hip-hop music I cared for only one thing, lyrics. If a song had great lyrics I would keep the song playing but if the lyrics were a bunch of nonsense I moved on to the next one. Hip-hop music from the 80s and 90s is what I usually listen to because of its emphasis on lyricism. Because of my fascination with lyrics, my favorite album became Illmatic by Nas because it had both meaning and amazing lyrics in each and every song.

If hip-hop does have a contribution to the increase in bad behavior of its listeners I believe that only two things could have caused this, the lyrics in its music or the actions of its artists. In this blog I will be analyzing how hip-hop might have become a haven for bad behavior and how listeners have reacted to it.