User:Darleen White/Partner violence in hip hop

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Studies have shown that hip hop is music that black adolescents observe to understand and perceive relationships and gender roles. Not only does teens and young adults examine the dynamic of relationship's through rap music but also lifestyle and identity.

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The identity that black adolescents examine in rap music can include the traditional gender roles that promote misogyny and violence. Music in general is relative, though with this promotion in rap music it is influencing teens and young adults the negative images that come with this genre. Hip Hop to adolescents can be seen as a positive influence rather than a negative and can promote positivity, connect culturally, and empowerment. Hip Hop is used as the foundation for many black adolescents to navigate their lives. Black girls who are constantly diminished and called "ghetto" or "trashy" grow to learn that the genre made by their community promotes the same word they are hurt by. Black boys are called "soft" that the hip hop community  tries to traditionalize as "mad gay". This creates a division and ultimately what becomes toxic when their is a continuous reminder of rap musics traditional way of gender in an adolescents mind.