How Young is Too Young?

This image was very disturbing to me. I wasnt sure what to make of it, but infact it is very contreversial. As many of us know, we were all raised differently, and grew up in different enviroments. For this album cover, there is a young infant, sitting up looking at a hand gun. Many of us may think that this is teaching our children at a young age about viloence. Some may take it as protection, or teaching them not what to do. Either way, i feel that we are exposing our young children, in todays world, too fast, to the realities of life and the dangers that lurk. Many people may not feel this way, and may interprut this image a bit different. This also may be showing how violent the lyrics of rap music are, and showing that young kids may think about acting out on these lyrics and acting dangerously. This picture could be interpruted many ways, all being very contrversial.

As stated before the two different sides to this image may be that we are teaching violence to our youth, or we are trying to protect them, raise a thought and show them not what to do. If we are teaching them violence, through lyriccs and the pictures that accompany the album, like i feel, then that is down right ignorant. Why would you put some kind of picture with a baby staring a a hand gun on the cover of your music. Now the other side of the argument may in fact be that this trying to raise a spark in your mind, and get you to think that this is not normal and get you to think about how you act around young children, and what you, yourself expose them to.

Either way, this image is effective. It is a strong arrgument for which ever stand you take. It is powerful image and really makes a person think about what they expose children to, and how they act.

Im not sure if this album cover is going to far. In some ways it is, but in others, i feel that it sent a very strong, much needed message to people in todays society. Some people may feel very irritated by this image, but on the other hand i feel that it was needed, to really trigger somehting, to make sure that we watch how we act, what we do, and the message we send to our youth today.