In 2003, in Alabama, 522 African-American girls in rural and poor neighborhoods were asked about their consumption of hip-hop videos, then their behavior was tracked for a year. Even after the researchers adjusted their data to accommodate for differences such as family income, and whether the teenagers were from one- or two-parent families, results were startling. "We divided the group into girls who watched fewer than 21 hours a week of music videos and girls who watched more," explains Ralph DiClemente, Ph.D., associate director of the Center for AIDS Research at Emory University and one of the lead investigators in the study. "We found that girls who watched more videos were 60 percent more likely to have contracted an STD during the year, twice as likely to have multiple sex partners and 60 percent more likely to use alcohol and drugs.

"It’s clear that when you look at rap music videos, you see a certain scenario: one male artist surrounded by scantily clad females, and their job is to please him," adds DiClemente. "There are many theories that suggest that if a person looks at a lot of videos and doesn’t have information to the contrary, she begins to believe that this is reality, that this is the way the world works." According to DiClemente, teenagers seem to be influenced by the images in videos because they don’t have the life experience to counter what they are seeing. "They can’t say what they’re watching isn’t true because they don’t know. They’re just kids."

this is just busted right here.