Essay On Rap Music

Rap music has been around for almost 30 years starting with the people like, Run DMC, LL Cool J, and N.W.A. No one had ever heard this new type of music and was intrigued by the rawness and realness of it. People of all races liked the music and thought it was a new form of art. But, the new rap music of the 2000’s has changed the overall view of rap. People don’t think of it as art anymore because of its big influence of gang violence and use of profanity and this is more of a caucasian community opinion. But then there are some people who like the music and can relate to it, like the African American community. But just because people like it doesn’t make it good music.

The change of rap music from the 90’s to the 00’s was a big change which caused a lot of people to turn away from rap. The music before was about people’s past like in one of 2Pac’s song, “Dear Mama”, he talks about his poor past and his single mother. This made the music have a purpose, an “art” to it but today’s music is always talking about sex, drugs, or women’s body parts like in Rae Sremmurd’s song “Throw Sum Mo”, the boys talk about throwing money at a girl’s butt. Many people don’t approve of this and certainly don’t want their kids listening to this. But that didn’t stop rap from becoming popular, kids my age still listen to it but do we …show more content…
Due to its change, people don’t consider rap to be an art or have any art because of its words, affiliations and the artists. The music doesn’t contain purposeful words and most of the songs don’t have a very good meaning behind it. Art is supposed to inspire people and it allows people to express themselves. Yes, the artist are expressing themselves but in a negative way. So how is rap supposed to inspire people using profanity and gang violence as a base? Rap isn’t having a positive effect on communities or the U.S. and if it today’s rap stays like this it won’t help America