I’m not sure if anyone has been watching the types of music we listen to. Let’s look at them for a minute. Our grandparents listen to music like; “Happy days are here again, the skies above are clear again.” Kids today hear RAP, which actually starts with a ‘C’ except the ‘C’ is silent in this new spelling and pronunciation. It’s really, SHIT. A radio station in TX is actually called K-RAP. Perfect.

It’s not that the music is that bad; it’s actually good, because its rhythm and cadence puts people in a convergent state of mind. In other words, it puts you in theta state of mind and that is where it is easier to suggest a new thought or brainwash into the dream state. The initiation of such brain waves is truly powerful. These tactics are also used in certain churches and sales and motivation seminars. Also during commercials and the government uses them to some extent for important efforts, for example, the cadence in the military march. Gangster rap is not good because it suggests murder, drugs, other gang activities while putting its listener in a convergence state of mind. This is a negative thing, and can cause these people to dwell on certain thoughts and give them ideas that they can, with a proper gang mentality, try one or more of the activities talked about in the songs. It would be so much better to have songs with that kind of cadence, promoting good works and love. Maybe there are a lot of these types of songs, but they don’t sell very well and I don’t see positive rap songs as much as I should. Especially Gangster Rap.

Many Techno type songs are also negative in nature. But these songs don’t have the right beats per minute to put a person into a trance state, where suggestive behavior is introduced that is a throwback to before the human change in society. Is it possible not to allow this type of music? Music is an escape for many people from fast-paced life, and being in a trace state is probably a good state to be in if one wants to escape the world for a while. A strong bass in a song and a certain beats per minute introduce this state of convergence, then the subject is 100 percent ready for a fresh new input. Theta states of mind are induced and a waking dream state provides easy subconscious input.

But what are we allowing into these altered state minds? Songs of this nature are better than drugs, however, drugs would affect the singular and not the victims of the fact that it is realized once an individual’s behavior is altered through this convergence. There is free speech in this country, but listeners don’t realize the effect of changes as they happen. They are being brainwashed while listening to their favorite music. Which becomes more favored because it puts them in a crawling state that allows them to escape from life’s problems. Hey, nobody said life was easy, right? I think rappers should be thrown away, not dirty the minds of our youth. It costs companies money to clean up graffiti and taxpayers money to police. The cost to society is too great to calculate altogether, but it is real. Instead of eliminating a cultural phenomenon.

Instead, let’s have each record label and artist (I use this loosely because I don’t condone RAP, but no judgment) produce 10 songs with positive lyrics for every song with negative lyrics. That solves that problem. People can still escape in their trance state, record companies still make money, the constitution still holds, but there will be fewer negative and more positive thoughts when the trance state produces more of one chemical in the brain than another. A person in this state is easy to recognize, his eyes are bright and stay that way for a while afterwards.