Thursday Blog Post

I often find that when I listen to rap music periodically, I often tend to use more slang type language. For example I used to listen to a drake song called The Motto, and in the song Drake would say this slang term “YOLO” which meant you only live once, so after listening to that song I would always say “YOLO” after someone would say something that out of the norm or something that was considered risky YOLO actually became an extremely popular slang term all because of a rap song. Also when listening to rap I tend to catch on to many other slang terms that often fall into my everyday vocabulary. Rap music is where I first heard many swear words and other words that I later realized are not exactly nice words. Eminem is very much known for his dark lyrics and use of profanity. Many people don’t realize how much music can influence someone and their use of language. Music in general is catchy and when popular big name musicians use a certain word or slang term, people swill often catch on to that and begin to use it on a daily basis much like I did with the slang term YOLO, which I first heard in a Drake song.