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Is the hip hop culture influencing students to drop out of college?

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Hip Hop Influence on Students Drop Out

Hip hop music is the genre of music that typically consists of rhythmically vocal style called rap which is accompanied with backing beats . Rapping , also known as emceeing or MCing is where the performer speaks rhythmically and rhymes with the beats . Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture that started in Bronx , New York City in the 1970s by predominantly African Americans and Latin Americans . Since then , hip hop music has become very popular

among the youth as mostly it is based around live performance with clearly defined drum beats which actually entrap and appeal to the youth . And for this reason , hip hop has been blamed for many college drop outs among Latin and African Americans , and especially the male students . Having hip hop rooted in both disco and the backlash against it , the youth become fans of it for its socio-political commentary delivered in an aggressive and self-assertive style (Chang 59

Hip hop as oppositional culture to schooling

According to Gosa and Young (5 , hip hop is believed to enhance black identity which brings about negative evaluation of opportunity structure , bias and distrusts schools , attributing schooling attitudes on racial grounds where going to school is acting white . The youth are adversely affected by this attitude and especially black boys who are occupied by black masculinity which regards going to school as being soft or feminine . What hip hop rappers drum on the youth is...

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