Explicit lyrics have taken over the music scene. For instance, up-and-coming artist Iggy Azalea marks the beginning of her career with 12 explicit songs out of the 15 on her deluxe album The New Classic.

Popular hip-hop/rap artists among teens today include Drake, Eminem, and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. The question is whether teenagers stop and listen to the lyrics being drilled through their headphones.

Each of these artists have an incredible amount of explicit language in their music styles. Has it become normal for this genre to be introducing this to preteens? All 20 songs from Drake’s Take Care Deluxe Version have been recorded as explicit. Senior Abby H. says, “Sometimes I hear these songs on the radio, but a lot of the words have to be cut out because of the bad language.”

Not only have artists been using bad language, but they are also talking about drugs. Sometimes drugs are just mentioned within a lyric the song, they are in the main chorus of the song, or they are even the underlying theme behind the entire song. FOX News reporter Leora Arnowitz stated that there is yet “Another Miley Cyrus song glorifying” drugs.

Just when things seem to be bad, they have turned for the worse. Music videos themselves have been highly offensive in recent years, as remarked by The Huffington Post. The video for “Monster” by Kanye West begins with an image of a young women hanging from the ceiling, hung by her neck. In other news, the song “Hello Kitty” by Avril Lavigne was perceived as such a racist video that it was taken off her official music video page.

Will the explicit insanity ever stop? That’s doubtful; however, it may begin to slow down. Hopefully artists will see the true meaning of songs as sharing music with others through musical instruments, with a somewhat kinder disposition.