This is from the fourth study that I mentioned, and now it is clear that the girls with more exposure to rap music videos, have more sexual partners, and sexually transmitted diseases and we can study the correlation from rap music videos.

In a study of "the influence of misogynous rap music on sexual aggression against women" by the psychology of women quarterly, the cognitive distortions concerning women on sexually aggressive behavior  were studied.  Twenty-seven men listened to mosogynous rap music while 27 men listened to neutral rap music.  These participants then viewed films ranging from neutral, sexual-violent to assaultive, and they chose one film to show to a woman.  Among those men who listened to the misogynous rap music, 30% of them picked the sexual violent film to show, while 93% of the men who listened to the nuetral rap chose the nuetral film.  These findings suggest that misogynous music faciliates sexually aggressive behaviors and leads to sexual aggressive thoughts.  In an article titled "Sexy Media Matter:  Exposure to Sexual Content in Music, Movies, Television, and Magazines Predicts Black and White Adolescents' Sexual Behavior."  This study surveyed 1017 black and white teens from North Carolina, each teen was interviewed when he or she was 12-14 years old and again 2 years later, measuring the teen's sexual media diet and the frequency of sexual content in each of the media the teen used regularly.  This study concluded that exposure to sexual content in the media accelerates white adolescents' sexual activity and increases their risk of engaging in early sexual intercourse.  Black teens however, are more influenced by perceptions of their parents' expectations and their friends' sexual behavior than the media.  An article was published about the psychology of rap music, specifically question if rap music promotes misogyny.  Young men who had little previous exposure to rap music were the subjects of an experiment were researchers studied four different groups, and had each group differed by whether they had to listen to rap music with or without lyrics, or or read the lyrics.  The results were that the subjects who read or heard the rap lyrics were more inclined to express adversarial sexual beliefs, and they found that only rap music with misogynistic themes is likely to promote a greater acceptance of violence against women.  The fourth article I studied was "A Prospective Study of Exposure to Rap Music Videos and African American Female Adolescents' Health."  Over the course of three years, recruiters screened female teenagers from lower-socioeconomic status neighborhoods from school health classes and county health department clinics to determine their eligibility for participating in an HIV prevention program.  Levels of exposure to rap music videos was the predictor variable, and these teens with more exposure to rap music were more sexually active, had multiple sexual partners and were more likely to have acquired a sexually transmitted disease.  All of these studies show the correlation between exposure to rap music and violence towards women, or the increased sexual activity with adolescents.  This is very important because rap is so common and well known in our society, but people may not  aware of its results.    

I am studying the effects of rap music, specifically on teenagers towards violence against women.  My research question is "Does exposure to hip hop music increase acceptance of violence against women?"  This is so important because rap has become a huge part of society's culture, it influences the way people speak and the clothes they wear.  It also is prevalent in movies and television shows, whether the characters are listening to rap, or it is background music to help set a scene.  Rap has changed popular culture, and I plan on studying these effects.  I am most interested in the effects rap music has had on teens, because of the explicit and negative lyrics that make up the music.  These lyrics are often very angry, depict violence towards women, and refer to women in derogatory, and sexist language.  By studying and decoding rap lyrics, and through different research studies and materials that have been published, I will be able to study the effects of rap music on teenagers.  

In this video, Dr. Michael Rich from Boston Children's Hospital says that music is a very strong influencer of children, particularly teen's, behavior.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecCsAeRjSMg  This is so important because if teens are listening to rap music with aggressive lyrics towards women, they may find this behavior acceptable, and it may influence their future actions.