NY Times Article: “For Clues on Teenage Sex, Experts Look to Hip-Hop”
Questions remain about whether hip-hop’s explicit lyrics encourage early sex. Last year, the journal Pediatrics published research from the RAND Corporation concluding that degrading lyrics, not sexual lyrics, were the problem. They found that adolescents who were exposed to the highest levels of sexually degrading lyrics were twice as likely to have had sex by the end of the study.
The problem is people give sex no value and just want to have, “fun.” Hip Hop lyrics do make sex seem like nothing serious and makes males feel they should be having sex with a lot females. But you can’t blame Hip Hop for spreading messages that have already been in our society for ages. A lot of promiscuous females act out for reasons such as insecurity, tragic events, lack of a father figure and some just have a high sex drive and don’t care about society’s double standard. I think parents have a stronger influence on how their children will behave sexually than Hip Hop music. Hip Hop might make their job harder, but definitely not impossible.
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November 5th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
yea i agree wit that comment a lil bit. i think hiphop makes it a lil bit harder on parents to explain what we were taught about sex. but the american society has been abusing sexual content for a long time now, hip hop just caught up to america. for once this aint hiphops fault. i blame the media, they glorify whores and sluts, so how are lil girls supposed to think of them when the world bows down to whores like royalty. lil girls wanna be princesses and tv shows them that whores are treated like princesses atleast white girls anyway.
the problem is oprah would rather talk to superhead than ludacris. i just found out what supersoak that hoe means, or is it supaman that hoe, either way a lil kid had to explain it to me.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
What does Superman that ho mean?
November 5th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
this is just what i heard, if a bitch dont give the nigga no ass, when she goes to sleep, the nigga beats off and nuts on her back, then puts the covers back on her so when she gets up she has on a cape like supa man…..
the children are our future huh doesnt look to bright does it
November 5th, 2007 at 10:36 pm
whoa, that can’t be what Soulja Boy is talking about.
November 5th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
thats what the kids be saying, and i wouldnt doubt these lil niggas, when i was 15 i knew what was poppin, u think soulja boy aint gettin it in. what else could super soak that hoe mean????
i dont put it past these fast ass lil kids, and then lil fast ass girls probably wanna try that shit. kim kardashian types make them lil girls wanna get it popping. r.kelly still drops the #1 record in the country and we seen him peeing on bitches. i’ve pee-ed on a bitch. b4 r.kelly i never even thought of that shit, after i saw the tape it was a wrap, golden showers for everyone. bitches is so nasty its hilarious
November 6th, 2007 at 12:54 am
i wonder if sex in every PG-13 movie that came out in the past few years has something to do with it
Scarface the movie effect me more then Scarface the Rapper
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November 6th, 2007 at 2:08 am
SMH @ this.
*Somebody got shot,hey blame it on hip-hop.
*Man kills his wife and children then hangs himself,hey blame it on hip-hop.
*The california fires,blame it on hip-hop.
*Bet the war in Iraq started cauz Bush was listening to hip-hop.
November 6th, 2007 at 2:16 am
hilarious hip hop is to blame for everything negative i guess…in reality wether your the best parent in the world or the worse…people kids and adults alike have free will no matter what their subjected to there’s going to be people who go left people who go right and people who go straight down the middle…that knows no race,creed,or social status…before hip hop their was teenage promiscuity and after hip hop there will be teenage promiscuity…when theres a open forum for debate like this your going to have some who agree some who disagree but at the end of the day your still going to have teenagers having sex…some having safe sex and some having unprotected sex..and soulja boy wasn’t around when i was supersoaking lol
November 6th, 2007 at 4:23 am
Lemme recover from the ’superman that hoe’ phrase that #1 explained so well….
Ok…
We cannot lay blame on everyone/everything else for who we are/who we have become. This is an outright lie to ourselves. There will be a million other soulja boys saying worse things every single day that unfolds. What are we gonna do? Always claim that it is those lyrics that have ruined our children???
If we keep living in this moral utopia that everyone else is at fault but us, then it is that very thing that turns our sons into Soulja Boys. Not Hip Hop.
November 6th, 2007 at 5:35 am
I read a article in this UK newspaper where this dude who got killed listened to Hiphop why’s that relevant ? would they speak on it if his listened to Pop music ? I don’t think you can blame Hiphop or its lyrics if people want to have sex you can blame parents who aren’t edjucating their kids on Sex you can also blame one of the biggest industry in the world the Porn industry before you blame Hiphop. The movies are also to blame & the media should take alot of the blame I mean Paris fucking Hilton is famous for that tape Bitches see hear and they think if I have sex and tape it I’ll be famous and rich. They also see Playboy and shit and want to be the next Pamela Anderson or Anne Nicole Smith kids are bein exsposed to sex at an early age and the Porn Idustry & the media can share the blame when it comes to that. I never see sex until I was 14, or 15 and I was 15 in 2004 when that happened nowadays your exsposed to sexual activitiesas soon as you turn on the TV pretty much or learn how to use a Computer or reading the sleazy Celebrites magazine. It’s a collection of things but it certainly aint Hiphop’s fault
November 6th, 2007 at 6:31 am
everythin in our society is focused on sex. everythin in our culture, and in our media is about sex. society itself is becoming more and more dependant on “sex sells” and who has the right to blame it on hip hop? music is a result of culture and society, not the other way around.
November 6th, 2007 at 8:47 am
ITS THE PARENTS FAULT!! THEY DONT KEEP THEIR KIDS ON A LEASH ONCE AND A WHILE! DAMN!
November 6th, 2007 at 8:58 am
I read the post earlier this morning but did not post. I hope this comes across very strongly. Of course researchers, analyst, etc are going to look at hip hop for answers. On both ends just like Bill Cosby said on Oprah. Children are trying to tell their parents something. On the other end rappers are speaking on what is going on in their lives. This is the world. It’s the bottom of the bottom and it’s being glorified. It’s being explicit, vulgar but real. But real to who? Life is more than what is being exploited on BET. We need to move past it.Hip Hop is not the blame it’s smart because it found a niche in profiting from being able to express itself through rap music, describing the ghetto life AND it blew up. Now it’s mainstream and needs to be control, taken into a new direction.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:00 am
This is straight bull. What white assholes do these studies. Come on u gon blame hip-hop for this. Listen to music that came before hip-hop. A lot of those songs were about sex. Listen to Ashley Tisdale new song. I neva herd it but i herd it was about sex. She is in no type of way hip hop. I tight that every time something happen hip hop get the blame. These white assholes need to find better things to do wit their time and money. This dumb shyt pisses me off man.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:00 am
my grandma was a teen when she had her first child, i guess she was influenced by hip hop too huh? teen sex has been around for ages, yea, these lil hoes are a bit more promiscuous, but thats either by choice or lack of family support. people always try to point fingers, i guess thats easier.
November 6th, 2007 at 10:29 am
I agree.
November 6th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Co-sign with my girl up there Juicy…
Just to add that the average age in the ENTIRE US to loose your virginity is 14! Thats something to think about…I mean does EVERYONE listen to hip hop get naked and start skeee skeee skeeeing. I THINK NOT!
November 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
with or with out explicite lyric sex sell positively n negatively, but that nature it a natural thing that lot of people do n well continue to do, sex is a big thing it bigger then just explicite lyrics, n even tho it look up as a bad thing, it is something that is up lifting young children in the society, and in today society sex has no value but it does have pleasure n that what make them feel good, n even tho rap music play a big part in it, as far as guy fuckin these girls n girls fuckin these guy to me that life, n people shouldn’t blame it on hiphop or hiphop artsit, but more so rappers with there explicite lyric, cuz the messages in hiphop lyric that these hiphop artist send, is much more positive then the messages that these rappers send in there rap lyric which is negative so blame them not hiphop, n i do believe that parents does have stronger influence on how there child behave sexually, then hiphop music which it should of said rap music…….don’t blame hiphop blame yourself.
November 6th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
u think The hills laguna Beach Britney’s snatch have nothing to do w/ teenage sex, late night soft core porns, easy access to porn on the net? and lastly of course Rap