When it comes to one of the biggest influential cultures in America, the hip hop culture has a huge impact on today's youth. Once limited to urban music and dance, hip hop is not just entertainment, for many it's a way of life and a form of communication listened to by today's youth widespread across America. As a cultural movement, hip hop manages to get labeled as both a positive and negative influence on young people, especially on Black and Latino youth. On one hand, there are African American activists, artists and entrepreneurs, who seek to build a progressive movement among young hip hop fans. Heavily active in the movement to help influence youth with trending fashion, socializing, freedom of speech, and showing that one can make something of him or herself coming from poverty. On the other hand, there is no shortage of critics who denounce the negative portrayals of Black people, especially women. Hip hop is known for bombarding the youth with graphic sexual images of females in videos. As well as, the very noticeable promotion of drugs and violence through lyrical and visual content which reflects the violent lifestyles of inner city American Black and Latino youths.   Hip hop the culture formed during the 1970s, when block parties became popular among African American and Latino youth residing in the Bronx area of New York City. Considered the founding father of hip hop, a Jamaican native, Dj Kool Herc observed how the crowds would react to different parts of whatever record he happened to be playing. Those moments tended to occur at the drum break the moments in a record when the vocals and other instruments would drop out completely for a measure or two of pure rhythm. By the summer of 1973, DJ Kool Herc had been using and refining his break-beat style for the better part of a year. On his sister's birthday party on August 11, put him before his biggest crowd ever and with the most powerful sound system he had ever worked. It was the success of that party that would begin a grassroots musical revolution six years before the term "hip hop" even entered the popular vocabulary. In those days, young party goers at first recited popular phrases and used the slang of the time which formed rap. Rap caught on because it offered young urban New Yorkers an outlet to freely express themselves. Often talking about the poor conditions that exist within their communities it served as a form of art available to anyone. People didn't need a lot of money or expensive resources to rhyme. Over the time, hip hop started to trend throughout the nation becoming more popular as it grew. Hip hop during the 1990s, began to leak into the mainstream music business creating lucrative career opportunities for those who rap. By that time, hip hop began to diversify with other regional styles emerging such as West coast, Midwest, and Southern rap. These versatile styles of rap vary depending on the lyrical content and the location of the artist, the content can range from sex, drugs, race, religion, social issues, partying, crime, love and loss. Rap is often recognizable by the location, which plays a huge part in the beats and rhythm of the music. After a while the style of rap music transformed into what people call today gangster rap.  Once gangster rap formed the negative influences of hip hop started to flourish. Negative complaints and tough criticism has always been an issue for the hip hop genre of music. Some of these accusa