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As a rap fan, you may or may not know the struggle of having a conversation with anti-rap critics who believe the music has had a bad influence on listeners since it originated in the 1970s. While it’s notoriously believed by many outsiders that rap music promotes and glorifies drugs, violence, misogyny and other criminal connotations, it turns out it may not be as heavy on the drug use as other genres of music.
According to a new study conducted by Addictions.com, they tracked down data from Songmeanings API, which revealed rap music actually makes the least amount of drug references compared to all other genres. The platform claims country music actually makes more references to drug use than any other genre, followed by jazz, pop, electronic, and rock.
The site stated, “If you ask the casual music fan which genres are more likely to bring up recreational substance use, hip-hop or contemporary electronic music are likely to be the most common answers. But according to our research, both of these styles are relatively tame. Out of eight categories, country leads the way with a 1.6 percent occurrence on average, followed closely by jazz and pop music. Hip-hop actually falls in last place at less than 1.3 percent behind folk, challenging the assumption that all rappers are lyrical drug peddlers.”
Charts also display the progression of drug references used in music over-time, which shows that it has plummeted greatly since its peak in the mid-2000s.
Essentially, if you’re a fan of rappers who speak on their love for weed, or who promote their lean-drinking habits, you no longer have to worry about the potential country and rock fans around you that may give you a hard time.
Check out the statistics on Addictions.com to find out more information on the newest study.
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/04/new-study-rap-mentions-drugs-least-among-genres/
https://www.addictions.com/explore/drugs-in-music-analyzing-drug-references-in-musical-genres/
According to a new study conducted by Addictions.com, they tracked down data from Songmeanings API, which revealed rap music actually makes the least amount of drug references compared to all other genres. The platform claims country music actually makes more references to drug use than any other genre, followed by jazz, pop, electronic, and rock.
The site stated, “If you ask the casual music fan which genres are more likely to bring up recreational substance use, hip-hop or contemporary electronic music are likely to be the most common answers. But according to our research, both of these styles are relatively tame. Out of eight categories, country leads the way with a 1.6 percent occurrence on average, followed closely by jazz and pop music. Hip-hop actually falls in last place at less than 1.3 percent behind folk, challenging the assumption that all rappers are lyrical drug peddlers.”
Charts also display the progression of drug references used in music over-time, which shows that it has plummeted greatly since its peak in the mid-2000s.
Essentially, if you’re a fan of rappers who speak on their love for weed, or who promote their lean-drinking habits, you no longer have to worry about the potential country and rock fans around you that may give you a hard time.
Check out the statistics on Addictions.com to find out more information on the newest study.
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/04/new-study-rap-mentions-drugs-least-among-genres/
https://www.addictions.com/explore/drugs-in-music-analyzing-drug-references-in-musical-genres/
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no ?
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Tag Fox News
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Don't Blame it on the music
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Don't believe that ?
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I strongly disagree. The reason why country wins in this case tho is because it's been around much longer than Hip-Hop has and many different forms. It doesn't matter if it has the "most" anyways because it's no longer the dominant form of music in popular culture today. Therefore the amount of people it can reach is very different.
And you can nosign the hell out of me but music may not TELL kids to go out and commit acts or what not but it DOES have a subconscious effect on people to help make them make that decision. It's not completely devoid of responsibility.
Exactly.
Music has the power to uplift or destroy. -
Why are we trying to prove Hip Hop is better?
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Those rural and Midwest states are going through heroin , ? overdose in record numbers.
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Looking at Geraldo and you ? capin' for other genres like...
Who cares it's only entertainment right? -
Y'all fallin' for the Chappelle Okie Doke.
Rap got the drug references on lock. "They" just haven't figured it out yet, so their results are heavily skewed haha. -
Shizlansky wrote: »Don't believe that ?the_focused_one wrote: »Y'all fallin' for the Chappelle Okie Doke.
Rap got the drug references on lock. "They" just haven't figured it out yet, so their results are heavily skewed haha.
Cosign.
There's ways to rap about smoking weed, selling coke and heroin that somebody doing the study wouldn't understand.
Since the mid 90s every rapper rapped about smoking weed and half of those rapped about selling coke and shooting people.
I can't think of any rapper or MC that came out after the mid 90s that didn't rap about smoking weed. -
Shizlansky wrote: »Don't believe that ?the_focused_one wrote: »Y'all fallin' for the Chappelle Okie Doke.
Rap got the drug references on lock. "They" just haven't figured it out yet, so their results are heavily skewed haha.
Cosign.
There's ways to rap about smoking weed, selling coke and heroin that somebody doing the study wouldn't understand.
Since the mid 90s every rapper rapped about smoking weed and half of those rapped about selling coke and shooting people.
I can't think of any rapper or MC that came out after the mid 90s that didn't rap about smoking weed.
KB da kidnappa rapped only about boa constrictors not weed -
From the same study...
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Percocets
Molly, Percocets
Percocets
Molly, Percocets
Rep the set
Gotta rep the set
Chase a check
Never chase a ?
Mask on
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Percocets
Molly, Percocets
Chase a check
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Shizlansky wrote: »Don't believe that ?the_focused_one wrote: »Y'all fallin' for the Chappelle Okie Doke.
Rap got the drug references on lock. "They" just haven't figured it out yet, so their results are heavily skewed haha.
Cosign.
There's ways to rap about smoking weed, selling coke and heroin that somebody doing the study wouldn't understand.
Since the mid 90s every rapper rapped about smoking weed and half of those rapped about selling coke and shooting people.
I can't think of any rapper or MC that came out after the mid 90s that didn't rap about smoking weed.
KB da kidnappa rapped only about boa constrictors not weed
K.B. got you on payola?
ur purposely ignorant you know it's an albino python -
The fact that they have Jazz as number 2 is highly suspect. 90% of the time there's not even words in Jazz.
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As some have already said...
Deez honkeys just don' understand the vernacular.
