Is rap music appropriate for kids

[idontknow2020]

My partner has got this obsession with wanting our child to be able to "understand music" and be "intellectual with music" and vibe to music he does....

And he plays all this rap music to our 4 month old 24/7 and this music has swearing, talking about drugs, guns, demons and all this crap.

To me it's not ideal for a baby or young child to listen to it especially with it blaring on loud volume 24/7.

I don't want to hear it and I don't want our child to hear it. I don't think it's right but he doesn't get my opinion and to him he's like I'm not mollycoddling our child from the real world and how he will just teach him not to say the swear words...

My voice isn't being heard and I don't know if I'm being dramatic and if I should shut this whole thing down or not?

If he were ally wants him to be 'intellectual about music' there is rap music that is child appropriate, without separating and violent language.

It sounds like he just wants him to like the music he does.

Why don't you find some music that meets his criteria but is child friendly as an alternative?

Presumably he is also playing pop, rock, metal, punk, ska, classical, hip-hop, r&b, Motown, soul, disco..........

You know if he wants his child to have an eclectic range....

Generally, no, it isn’t unless it’s carefully chosen. It also doesn’t sound like he wants to give your dc a good musical education, he just wants them to like the same music as him.

I would wait until the child is older to introduce them to rap music, or that style of music. Rap music is chock full of swearing and obscene topics, and children will ask questions. I would wait until your child is a teenager to introduce them to rap music and similar things.

Do you want this stuff ‘blaring’ all day?

It sounds like an excuse.

It will be a while before your 4 month old develops an intellectual relationship with rap.

On the other hand it could influence their early vocabulary.

Years ago I sat on a bus listening to a toddler sing “P.U.S.S.Y with a tight needle eye” in clear loud tones.

It depends on the type of rap - Will Smith or De La Soul is OK, Croydon drill tracks maybe not so much. I'm actually in a smiliar position to your dp as I listen to a lot of rap music and I will sometimes play it to my three month old, but I have told myself I probably need to stop in the next month if I don't want him going round dropping n bombs (spoiler alert - I don't want him to). I'd have a word with your dp and let him know that babies brains are incredible absorbent in the first year of life when it comes to language, and he really doesn't want your child coming out with something like the above as his first word.

If he really wants to pass on his cultural preferences to your dc (and there's nothing wrong with that), maybe encourage him to either choose 'softer' rap or versions with the expletives beeped out - all mainstream US rappers produce these for radio play.