How to Find Kid-Friendly Hip Hop Music
Hip hop music is globally recognized as a favorite musical genre among teens and children. Though culturally accepted, it can be of some concern to parents or teachers due to the adult, or violent nature of certain hip hip songs. If your child likes hip hop music but is too young for some of the racy lyrics and adult subject matter, you can still provide her with the music she likes without exposing her to explicit content. There are a variety of different styles of hip hop music for children that include more appropriate material for young impressionable minds.
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Finding Appropriate Hip Hop for Kids
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Explicit lyrics may damage impressionable minds. Use educational hip hop CDs. It's a known fact that children respond well to academic lessons set to music. Multiplicationhiphopforkids.com is one of many websites that offer educational learning tools for children that are set to the tunes of popular hip-hop music by artists like 2 Pac, Lil Wayne, Ludracris and 50 cent. Explicit lyrics are removed from the songs and replaced with rap-style lyrics that recite multiplication tables in child-friendly lighthearted manner.
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Look for rap music by children's network stars. Explore children's television networks. For younger children there are numerous clean and wholesome variations of hip hop style music available on cable television. Child-oriented television stations like Disney and Nickelodeon promote music and dance in all genres, providing clean wholesome lyrics for children to sing and dance along to. Many child stars on such shows produce CDs that are available online and in stores.
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Encourage fitness with hip hop exercise DVDs. Purchase kid's exercise videos. There is considerable demand for child-friendly hip hop-style music in the consumer market and correspondingly numerous independent production companies release exercise and dance tutorial DVDs for children that feature urban-style dance music. Many of them promote good health, public awareness, violence prevention, good study habits or other issues important to youngsters, through age-appropriate hip hop songs.
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Stores for DJs may have instrumental versions. Buy instrumental hip hop music for your children. Many popular songs, of any genre, are sometimes available in instrumental versions. Try searching record stores that cater to DJs and night club entertainment professionals to find re-mixed, and instrumental versions of your child's favorite hip hop songs. You can often find instrumental versions of popular songs on propriety music application websites like iTunes.
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Use computer software to digitally edit music. Digitally edit hip hop recordings. A tool of the trade used by dance instructors and music teachers who incorporate urban music into students' lesson plans is to purchase or create edited versions of popular hip hop songs. In many instances the radio edit version of otherwise explicit material is available online or in record stores. When radio-edited music is not available for purchase, there are software programs that can enable you to edit the music yourself.
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Tips & Warnings
When buying hip hop music for children, always check the product packaging for explicit lyrics labels and warnings.
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