Rap has a tendency to be the most authentic form of music. Jay-Z tells us , “Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.” hip-hop is most well known for being the choice genre of music for the poor and repressed, although this is true, rap has grown to be so much more contemporary than it used to be. Rap is for anyone who is willing to listen, it is an amalgamation of all the music genres you can think of, jazz, blues, gospel, rock, and there are producers such as Clams Casino and Madlib who take the very best aspects out of each genre and contort them into an original product that they claim their own.
The genres incorporated into rap are all seen positively amongst the general public, and for good reason, they’re educational, inspiring and have a morally correct connotation, so why when fused together are they considered hateful and immoral? It’s simple, the dichotomy …show more content…
Although this is as big a stereotype as to say that all country music is about trucks, girls, whiskey, animals and cowboy boots, there is a definite question to be asked about how rap is thought to be only about drugs and violence,why is it’s connotation so much more negative than that of trucks and cowboy boots? Rap speaks about the ever so prevalent issue of violence in the hateful world we live in, we live in a world where our children get shot based on their skin color, where our children get beaten and abused on a daily basis, a world where our parents drink to excess and do drugs in order to escape their lives. Most men do degrade women in one form or another, whether it be through the nature of their physical relationship, the level of consent or the way they describe women. Rap has not created these issues, rap only interprets them in their own
The genres incorporated into rap are all seen positively amongst the general public, and for good reason, they’re educational, inspiring and have a morally correct connotation, so why when fused together are they considered hateful and immoral? It’s simple, the dichotomy …show more content…
Although this is as big a stereotype as to say that all country music is about trucks, girls, whiskey, animals and cowboy boots, there is a definite question to be asked about how rap is thought to be only about drugs and violence,why is it’s connotation so much more negative than that of trucks and cowboy boots? Rap speaks about the ever so prevalent issue of violence in the hateful world we live in, we live in a world where our children get shot based on their skin color, where our children get beaten and abused on a daily basis, a world where our parents drink to excess and do drugs in order to escape their lives. Most men do degrade women in one form or another, whether it be through the nature of their physical relationship, the level of consent or the way they describe women. Rap has not created these issues, rap only interprets them in their own