Originally Posted by SATCHMO

I think the influence of music lyrics on the adolescent mind is largely overestimated. The correlation between lyrical content of the music one listens to and lifestyle has always been tenuous at best. It's a simple fact of life that most teenagers are going to listen to music that has suggestive or controversial lyrics. Same old story as it ever was. Believe it or not there is a lot of positivity that can be found in both the hip hop and pop genres, and If you think pop and rap are the only genres of music that contain suggestive and gratuitous lyrics you really need to listen to more music.