A) Read the text “Rap Style” and answer the questions at the end. Rap Style According to statistics, a large number of teens watch music videos more than two hours a day. There on screen are cool and rebellious rappers. looking and sounding unique. Teens want a piece of that image. Wearing the same clothes as rappers who often sing violent and offensive lyrics can make the teens in such clothes feel very cool and rebellious too. And rap fashion is big business. Rap and hip-hop were born in the ghettoes of New York City over 30 years ago. Not too many years later, hip-hop enthusiasts began to wear expensive designer labels such as Polo, Ralph Lauren. Prada and Gucci. The clothes were often worn with a lack of respect to tradition or authority. e.g. wearing a baseball cap backwards or leaving Shoelaces untied. Rappers wore enormous gold necklaces and drove costly cars. Sometimes the sparkle of the cars and jewellery was so extravagant it became known as bling bling. Rap style so fashionable nowadays is not only wearing oversized hoodies‘ and oversized pants that are pulled down low. It is also rap language or rather rap slang used by many teens. Here are some rap words and expressions. Some of them you can often hear in songs: bling bling — shiny, obviously very expensive jack — to steal banging — excellent. cool diss (short for udisrespect“) — to insult someone eye candy — someone who is good-looking, whose only aim is to look good and whose personality is not important boo — girlfriend (like “baby" or “honey") crib — home da bomb — very good Middle-class white teens growing in wealthy neighbourhoods also spend long hours watching rap videos. They want to get away from boring American mainstream culture. Since white artists like Justin Timberlake and Eminem have been accepted by black rap culture. many white kids have become less self-conscious about adopting rap style. And what is a better way to express the generation gap than listening to music many parents find “offensive" and using words they have never heard of? Rap wouldn‘t be rap without its bad-boy image. It’s well—known that some rap singers used to sell drugs and have faced murder charges. So, does rap glamorize crime? Some people say “yes”. Some say “no”. And what do you think? b) For Rap 1. Rap is music of violence and crime as rappers sing of these things. 2. Teens want to look like rap idols and behave like them. And some rappers have spent some time in prison. 3. Rap music degrades women calling them bad names. Rap songs affect teen attitudes towards women. 4. Rap songs affect teen attitudes towards money making them believe that money is the most important thing in the world. 5 ............................... Against Rap 1. Rap music can provoke people, it can alter people‘s moods but it can’t load a gun or push the trigger. 2. Rap music doesn’t call for violence. 3. If there are words “guns” and “money” in the songs, it doesn’t mean that they call for killing and bribery. 4. ...............................