why aren't kendrick Lamar or logic anybody's role model?

The 21st century is one where a lot of genres of music has emerged and 2017, in fact, is the first year when the hip hop genre surpassed the rock genre in most heard genres. Kendrick Lamar's album, 'DAMN', was deemed the most popular album in the USA this year.

Logic's song '1800-273-8255', on the day of its release, increased calls to suicide prevention lines by 27%. 

So why aren't people like these role models? why do we always take the great people as role models? 
A role model does not have to be a great person. It can be anybody who inspires you in some way to live in a particular way. there is so much to learn from the shadows as compared to the light.

Kendrick uses his power and status to talk about social issues and problems in the government and society. He himself says that he is gifted with a voice to translate what he feels and what those who cannot voice out feel.
Kendrick asks us to change the negativity around us to positivity. We can really learn from his raps, but instead, we prefer to just hear them for how dope they are. A lot of raps have deeper inner meanings which really mean important things. 
Logic is a new and upcoming rapper. To me, he is an amazing person and rapper. His verses are one of a kind and always leave me amazed. 
Logic's main aim is life is to spread peace, love and positivity. He mentions it in many of his songs and says that these make you versatile.
Logic wrote 1800 because he was inspired by one of his fans. While on tour, he went a fan's house for dinner and saw that the fan had his lyrics tattooed on his arms and kept telling him that he saved his life. Logic just wanted to make good music and had no intention of 'saving lives' but now that he realised this, he decided to help save lives and wrote 1800. 
Logic tells us to move away from positive and negative appraisals. Positive appraisals, he says, make you develop a big head and ego while negative appraisal makes you depressed and dark minded. 
Both these rappers are extremely authentic and have very devoted fans who often claim that they save their lives, literally. 

We can learn a lot from our world indeed. all the teachings are right in front of us but we need to interpret them. If we are successful in doing so, we can achieve great heights. 

More teenage stereotypes

Lets tackle some stereotypes

There are a lot of stereotypes about teenagers going around whether they are good or bad. Lets discuss a few-

1) The average teen
Every teenager today is more or less the same. We have become robots and are shadows of our true selves. We do what everybody does and individualism does not have a place in society. It is either be like the rest or be a nobody. It is  pretty cut throat. So, what is the average girl like? 
The average girl:
a) Has an instagram account
b) Uses obnoxious and played out quotes from a stereotypical        book or movie like The Divergent Series or from wattpad
c) Has at least one beach photo in which she is looking into the ocean
d) Has at least two photos with a snapchat filter
e) Loves 'The Chainsmokers' or any other musician she can 'relate to'.
f) Has read less than five books in her life.
g) Always complains about how nobody 'gets her' even though she treats everybody like a personal butler.

The average boy:
a) Always looks down in any given photo or covers his mouth.
b) Has medium to long hair to look emo.
c) Does not smile in any picture.
d) Supports a football team-without knowing the players in the team-because it is cool.
e) Behaves like an emotional person and keeps posting emotional pictures with abhorrent quotes about life which were probably said by felons.

2) Clothing 
Every girl dresses with as less clothes as possible. Their clothes are all from the same brand and they all wear rings, necklaces and played out lipstick colours. They colour their hair to copy their favourite artist or to show how 'punk' they are. They all adore the 'Adidas superstars' which are now a standard for teenage girls' footwear.
Boys wear the same baggy jeans and hoodies everywhere even if it is a beach. They all wear snapbacks and Nike shoes. 

3) Activities
Every girl wants to feel special and dates boys so that the boy can 'understand her'. Boys date girls because they don't want to be lonely or the laughing stock of their friend circle. Every girl tries to get popular on social media and hence tries to socialise a lot. This includes backstabbing friends and relations as well. A lot of teenagers consume alcohol and drugs because of peer pressure and a chance to be 'cool'. Nobody focuses on academic excellence because to them, their parents are always there and 'life will work itself out'. Stereotypical girls adopt shih-tzu dogs and take like 37 photos of every thing they come across. 

There are many more stereotypes which I will discuss later in my blogs. These are the basic ones.
Are you one of them? If you are, there is nothing to worry about. Everybody is like this and nobody will judge you. However, if you are not, then you will often be regarded as different or weird even though you are trying to stay authentic. Be yourself and be unique. God has not created us to be like another or to follow a herd. We should be individuals with different interests and disinterests. Liking or doing something which everybody is doing is useless and is like bringing sand to a beach. There is no shortage of typical boys and girls because if there would be, there would be more leaders of the world and lesser people who believe that the earth is flat.