Rap Music Analysis

Back in the nineties rap music was more lyrical compared to twenty tens version of rap which is more about how the song sounds and not as much about the lyrics. Since I was born midway through the nineties I am more impartial to the twenty ten type of rap than nineties rap because I have experienced longer. There are great music in the different eras of rap. Both have their own unique style of rap. There are three main categories I will be focusing on are the artist, quality of lyrics, and the message in the song. Those are going to be the four criteria I use in my decision.
The artist now that are most popular are little Wayne, T.I., Eminem, Kanye west, and more. The artist are more about their appearance and how people think of them and make money than anything else. Nowadays people …show more content…
As violent as the lyrics where they were just letting the public in on the struggles they went through to make it where they are now. As harsh as some of the lyrics and music videos where they were shedding light on what the conditions they lived in and the condition there people are still living. The artist back then mainly rapped about the struggle of the black man and the des domination they faced every day. Some of the big time artist back then where notorious B.I.G, Tupac, Snoop dogg, and NWA. All the artist back then had one thing in common to show the world how black are still degraded and the living condition they had been forced to live in. I feel as though the raps in the nineties rapped from the heart. They had pain and emotion in there lyrics. Tupac is probably the best example from the nineties. He is considered to be the best rapper ever. His raps where more poetic and rapped about his life and his own experiences. Rappers today don't really rap from the heart they rap to make money, it's all about the sound of the music now, not the content of the