http://diverseeducation.com/article/3653/
This article talks about how a professor did some studies in rough minority neighbor hoods of mostly blacks and latinos, who supposedly are the targeted audience of hip hop and rap music today. Therefore, they feel as though the affects of hip hop and rap music will be seen the most in these neighborhoods. In this article I learned that most people believe that events that takes place in these "ghettos" are effects being felt as a result of rap musics influence on the youth of the neighborhoods. However, it may be the other way around. In most cases,this music is a result of the influence being put on the industry by today's youth and they are the audience that is being targeted because that is the lifestyle that artists know young people will relate to because they know the influence that these "ghettos" have actually had on most rappers today.
