Blogspot 4: The psychology of hip hop music

"Gangster's music", "Usually listen to this are riot maker, hold-uppers, and snatchers", "Most of rap/hiphop fans dresses loosen shorts and shirts, with the sleeves of the their shirts reaching below the elbow, their shorts reaching their shin, and wearing big necklace (usually silver), big bracelets, and rings." That's how people describe the hip hop music and their fashion. But what does hip hop music really mean.

Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music, or hip-hop music, is a rhythmic music genre that commonly rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech delivery. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four elements: rapping, scratching, break dancing, and graffiti writing. Other elements include sampling, and beatboxing.

I've read an article entitled "Does Hip Hop Affect Behavior in Kids?" by Lori A. Selke of everydaylife.globalpost.com that tells explicit content of some hip-hop song lyrics, violence, drug, and alcohol use, and detailing sexual exploits and gang adventures, can be quite disturbing to parents of teen fans in particular. The content of popular music, including but not limited to hip-hop, may have a negative impact on kids' behavior according to certain studies. But hip-hop alone will not turn your child into a juvenile delinquent. It may have some positive behavioral effects too. She also stated that "The principle that must be kept in mind whenever studies about popular music and children's behavior are discussed is the one known as "correlation does not equal causation." That is, just because you can demonstrate a statistical link between two things doesn't mean that one causes the other or vice versa. In other words, there may be a statistical link between, say, redheadedness and freckles, but being a redhead doesn't cause freckles to appear on your skin nor do freckles on your skin cause your hair to turn red. The correlation is significant, but in this case there turns out to be an underlying third cause in the form of certain genes in people's DNA. Consumption of violent media, then, has not been proven to cause kids to act violently. Sorry to say, things are more complicated than that."

Here in Philippines we often saw gangsters we differentiate them by their dress. We often saw in the news that the criminals, drug and alcohol addicts, and poor people dresses like that so there were a bad impact on every one to no t to listen to music but we doesn't know that it has a very good effect. Hip hop music also affects the language learning of people who listens to it.

I've read an article entitled "Can music influence language learning? The case of hip-hop." by Dr. Victoria Williamson of musicpsychology.co.uk. She stated that speakers acquire vocabulary language by watching films or TV, but there is not a great evidence in a study that listening to music has a similar influence. listening to more hip-hop were related to a higher comprehension of hip-hop language. She also stated that "Young adults listen to more music than previously recorded generations in America and hip-hop has now evolved into widely available mainstream music. It is also one of the most popular video media music genres and there are a number of websites devoted to documenting the slang and ‘urban language’ that is used by different hip-hop artists.The study set out to test 166 non-African American young people’s understanding of ‘African American English (AAE)’ terms, which are frequently used in hip-hop. She hypothesised that a higher level of familiarity with hip-hop would be correlated with a higher level of understanding of AAE vocabulary.The dense multiple regression linear analysis revealed that three main factors predicted knowledge of hip-hop AAE: musical preferences, weak social ties to African Americans (negatively), and knowledge of popular culture."

I think this is true. Most of us use the words we hear and learn from songs. It changes our vocabulary. Most of these song are made by foreign countries that the words they use are no familiar to use but we know how to use it because of the artist used it in the sentence that we understand.