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dress and drive what the stars do.

hip-hop/rap music appeals to the thirteen to eighteen year old audiences

rap music is able to control the way that youth think

is reportedly preparing

The world's largest music corporation,

Vivendi's Universal Music Group

Sales of CDs fell almost 9 percent in 2002 and are expected to be down this year an additional 6 percent.

Instead of buying music, fans are flocking to online services like Kazaa that allow users to digitally swap songs free.

11% decline in album sales during the first half of 2008

Consumers purchased 204.6 million albums between January and June

single track downloads growing 30% to 532.7 million units in the first half of the year over first half sales in 2007 of 417.3 million units

rising revenue from songs and albums bought on the Internet failed to offset the consumer flight from CDs.

CD sales was down 13 percent last year compared with 2005

Way to stereotype people. One of my friends listens to rap, and he doesn't dress, nor sounds like a jock. I listen to metal; 1. I don't skate and 2. I don't have long hair. To the point of this thread: I believe some rap is bad influence, but most of the bad influence comes from media. I was at an appointment, and I see this one kid sitting next to me. He has a toy gun, and he was pointing at some people in front of us. The thing was that he had the toy in his left hand, stuck out his left arm, put the gun sideways onto his left arms wrist. That's how the people in the movies do it, as if they were in a gang. The kid was only 5 years old - what the mother said when she was talking to the clerk. Anyways, I wouldn't think the majority of the kids who listen to music, listen to screamo, emo, etc. because it's quite obvious; it's not music to them. So I wouldn't vote for screamo, emo. The ones who listen to that are mostly, if not always teenagers+.