Juvenile Crime | Gangsta Rap Music Contributes to Gang-Related Juvenile Crime

What first scares many parents is the music. Their daughter has just become a teenager and almost overnight, it seems, her taste has changed from Raffi to gangsta rap, the street music of the black ghettos in the United States. The little girl who once rollicked to Baby Beluga and Down by the Bay has, at the age of 12 or 13, become desperate to attract boys and win acceptance from other girls. She’s taking endless showers to lyrics such as these from the popular High School High movie sound track: “Blow your head off”; “Let’s get it on like Smith and Wesson”; “Kill a...

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