Many young people of this generation between the ages of ten and twenty live for music. They have become infatuated with music as if nothing else matters. After reading Allan Bloom's essay “Music”, Venise Berry's, “Redeeming the Rap Music Experience”, and Barbara Dority's “The War on Rock and Rap Music", I was opened up to new ideas which previously had not occurred to me. When people are reading and listening to lyrics or going to concerts they are exposed to sex, violence, and drugs which have a negative influence that plague the music world. The lyrics and beat of many songs we hear again influence our children.