Rap Music in Today's Culture
68Rap vs. Hip Hop Music
Introduction
Rap music is not all the same but well written rap does have a redeeming grace. Rap music is all about the presentation reaching the audience and getting the point across. Rap music is the more accessible, friendlier, livelier, party aspect to hip-hop music.
Music
Rap music is a genre of rhythm and blues music that consists of rhythmic vocals declaimed over musical accompaniment. Music on early rap records sounded like the black music of the day, which was heavy funk or more than often disco music. Music has been around for centuries but probably the music that has the greatest influence on people, young and old, has to be the rap/hip-hop industry.
Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form, but as a fad that they hope will soon “fade away.” Hip hop has historically provided a voice for the silenced minorities and these roots have allowed for its rhythmic flows to transgress many nations’ borders, providing a global musical outlet for the marginalized.
Rap
Rap music and hip hop, with their particular emphasis on sex and demeaning depictions of women, were blamed for encouraging early sexual behavior, leading to the spread of disease and underage pregnancies.
Rap pioneer KRS-One, who just released Hip Hop Lives with fellow legend Marley Marl, offers a blunt explanation: Rap’s early stars, from Grandmaster Flash to Public Enemy and LL Cool J, “touched on humor, politics, ghetto life and realities they faced.”
Rap music is not all the same but well written rap does have a redeeming grace. Rap has influenced many forms of popular culture, particularly film, and has been increasingly incorporated into pop music.
Conclusion
Rap music is a rapidly growing type of music. I find it very ironic that even though rap music is a billion dollar a year business that both black and white local radio stations are still reluctant to play for fear of loosing advertisers.
In my opinion, rap music is truly an American minority creation which deserves more credit and recognition as an art form rather than as a fad which should just fade away with time.
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excellent hub. keep them coming
Listen to Lil Wayne and you will know what the new generation rap means. This is what the youth wants. The style is unique and rapping is natural...one-of-a-kind rough voice.
(lost lil homiez)
now for all da niggaz i eva lost..n all da lost.. nigga itz jus weed killin n alcohol spillin for da lost homiez who waz tryna make a livin caint stop da dealin man all we do iz chillin n peelin..
(chorus) (mothafukka yu gon die 2 nite cuzz bitch we got yu in our sightz we gon end ya life get ya sissta high n make ya granmotha cry)
niggaz caint stop da death so dey keep usin meth 2 take away da problem n make em stronger wouldnt giv up dey life 2 make it rite get a pass 2 heaven n all dey do iz sell it..on mo time my nigga
(chorus)
(bitch ya family gon die we gott em in our sightz so we gon end dey lifes we gon make em cry now itz time fa dey goodbyz)
my homie grew up on da c block.wit nothin but a glock nigga try n run up muthafukka get popped. lil homie grew up witout a father but it only made him stronger hiz lil mama gettin sad cuzz homie gon b a dad.dey caint pay for abortion so he start sellin portions now diz iz da life of us niggaz now da 5-0 tryna stick us
tell me wat yu think
i am amazed behind the story of this rap...i just want to know what are your perceptions behind this rap music..as many of us listen it to the core of our hearts and others may be to gain acceptance in the society and just become fashion victims.please reply its a part of my research.thanks!!!
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good stuff
this site lost all credibilities, that ain't lil wayne pictured...that's kay and papoose...fake site
don't be so sad dude.
AaronBeats 4 years ago
interesting read, makes a lot of sense. a lot of people don't even understand that there are differences between hip hop and rap, even though they share simliar fundamentals. good article