Music as a Diet

Music and food have attention grabbing concepts and hooks that draw you in. But do we ask ourselves if our music and food have a well balanced diet. For every piece of junk food do we eat a piece of fruit? Same thing with music; for every song we hear about a nigga and hoes, do we hear a song about changing the community? We need to balance the good music with the bad music. We need to treat the music that we listen to like food. Would you eat all junk food and no healthy food? Certain music that we listen to isn’t really good for you because it influences you to do dumb things. Some say that 40 percent of the things that we do is influenced by the music that we listen to. Mostly because the music that we hear gives us this glamorous life style that everybody wants to live. But that lifestyle isn’t cool. It’s not well balanced. Everybody talks about “getting money” but they never talk about giving money to somebody else.

Imagine life without music, it would be more violence. Music is the soul of all races, meaning that it is our escape from reality. If our escape is negative what would our reality be? This is where a balance diet of music comes to play. You have to balance out the good with the bad. Music makes some people change their ways. Sometimes it’s the way music is made. Music could be made in negative ways and children want to act off what they hear on the radio. They want to hustle and kill people because that’s what they are use to hearing rappers say just think maybe they want to be just like them.

By: Teens Making a Change!