Rap Music Lyrics and the Construction of Violent Identities Among Adolescents.

The article discusses the relationship between lyrical rap music content and the construction of an adolescent's social identity. It is discussed that the lyrics in rap music are a reflection of an oppositional culture which help in shaping an adolescent's violent social identity. It adds that violence is a part of these disadvantaged communities such that many of the lyrics in rap music reflect a code of the street. It also mentions that media plays an important role in increasing violence among youth. It also mentions that by sharing of symbols, language, norms adolescents who are not original members of oppositional culture, are adopting the social construction of reality.