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Teens and pre-teens are using their part-time job paycheck to buy grills (a form of jewelry worn in the mouth)

rap music has turned the youth more violent, utterly disrespectful and it is teaching them that it's acceptable to have multiple babies' mommas, stand on the block and hustle or even kill someone over a minor disagreement

being deteriorated by the lyrics and images portrayed in rap music and videos.

rap music is influencing our adolescents to become hustlers, pimps and murderers

Slick Rick, KRS-One, Public Enemy, Special Ed and Big Daddy Kane made popular non-violent mainstream music that spread throughout the world in a matter of two years

12-19 because they are at a very impressionable age and it's hard for them to determine fantasy from reality