Rap

Gangster Rap and Rap has grown to a cultural phenomenon, taking

today’s youth by storm. Rap originated from the Bronx in the late 70’s. The early rappers

and rap groups talked about life, police brutality, racial issues and politics like Run DMC

and Public Enemy, they concentrated on such topics as break dancing, graffiti and party’s

From the early 90’s rap took a drastic turn becoming to what is now know as ‘Gangsta

Rap.’ Groups such as N.W.A(Niggas with Attitude), Eazy- E and 2pac grabbed national

attention with their hit song “[Expletive deleted] the Police” such topics and words have

become common in today’s rap industry.

The glorification of drug dealing, pimping, pot smoking and violence is

common in gangsta rap. The fact is that with out the sexual explicit lyrics and violence

the music wont sell and the rappers wont make money. Gangsta rap is not here for moral

purposes its here to make money. Rap is music to entertain, but it is also ammo given to

young people, words that will influence young unsupervised lives to the things they hear

and see on TV. All rap is not bad, it is the rap that influences young children to do and

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Violence in music can be seen everywhere Styles a New York rapper talks

about his knife killing people “My knife said to me ‘I hawk Niggas down, burst arteries

for the coke and buss…” (The Source) is Styles rapping about positive things in his life?

or how about Cam’ron’s lyrics to his song ‘Ground Zero’ “I worship the prophet/ The

great Mohammed Omar Atta/ For his courage behind the wheel of the plane/ Reminds me

of when I was dealing 'caine. It has become a common trend of young black African American to die at the

hand of a gun or a STD. Beat the [expletive deleted] outta security. Grab the peels, cuz we robbin'

tonight. Many times many of these rappers like 2pac contradict themselves talking about

killing each other yet he wanted to make a difference he wanted change. Christian Rap has grown over the years encouraging sex after marriage,

living a moral life and living for God. The 11

year old is going to grow up with the image of women being sexual objects and wanting

to lust over different women. The rap culture has taken this world by

storm and taking the moral values with it while planting corruption, premarital sex and

other obscene lyrics. Reality is the majority

of all of gangster rap lyrics have immoral behavior that does not benefit anyone but

themselves. Cam’ron was asked the

question what if an 11 year old was to imitate him, saying four letter words and talking

about women in a immoral way. Gangsta rap is need of a reality check, the influence it has in the

music and fashion industry is amazing and should be use for a greater purpose other than

corrupting the young lives in America. Ludacris on the other hand, a rapper that makes a living selling

millions of Cd’s making threats to other artist and glorifying marijuana, violence and

drug dealing is on top of the music charts and gets commercials and ads in magazines for

Pepsi. Gangsta rappers should rap about issues that will

benefit the public and not hurt it.

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