Music of different types has been criticized throughout the ages. A generation of parents worried about poor role models like Kiss and Marilyn Manson. Before that, they thought the Beatles' hair was too long and Elvis' shake too suggestive. Rock'n'roll was said to be demonic. ...

Rap music is truly an American minority artist creation of which students need to be proud. Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form, but as a fad which they hope will soon fade away. There is a population of people that uses rap music as there own form of subcult...

Music has thrived in America since its establishment over two centuries ago. In those two centuries, people have enjoyed listening to music ranging from classical to rap music. However, in recent decades the lyrics in modern rock, rap, hip-hop, and nearly all other music genres, have come to be seen...

I'm so tired of elected officials, politician wanna-be's, and media whores posturing and pretending that they know what's best for the entire country. Are we Americans so ignorant that we need fringe members of the government to tell us what is and what isn't acceptable entertainment for our kids??...

Rap, particularly "gangsta rap," is perhaps the most controversial music there has ever been. Stanley Crouch concludes that rap "encourage young people toward illiteracy, brutishness, hatred of women, whorishness and mindless materialism," while Authur Lawrence Cribbs, Jr. claims that gangster rap ...

Rap for Freedom of SpeechIf you were a songwriter and all your thoughts and efforts were put onto a piece of paper, would you want "big brother" to come and tell you that half of the subject matter is inappropriate and must be censored? Censorship can be defined as a banning of literature, music, a...

Gangster Rap music is the kind of music that really affects the whole teen community. Some rappers write lyrics that teens really listen to and try to copy everything they say and do. Gangster Rap is taking over hip hop music but they are still competing to see what teens would want the most between...

Recently we have been hearing a lot about the need for censorship of television and recording industries. Whether it is the cartoon Beavis and Butthead, the controversial television drama NYPD Blue or rap recording artists, someone always s eems to arguing about their negative effects on society a...

Rap Not Rest in Peace (12/01/98) In this day in age rap has changed in so many more ways then one. From its start in the 80s on the East Coast, to its explosion and transformation on the West Coast. Today RAP has earned itself a first name, and as you all may know its gangster RAP. Gangster Rap...

Hip-Hop The Merriam-Webster Colligate dictionary defines Hip-Hop as "a subculture especially of inner-city youths whose amusements include rap music, graffiti, and break dancing; an element or art form prevalent within this subculture." This is a general and to me, a very discriminatory...

Essay #3Pete Lottman10/26/009:30-10:45TitleFirst off, lets re-classify the genre of music known as rap. People that listen to or compose rap music preferably like to call it hiphop. Today rap is known as hiphop and that is how it will stay throughout the rest of its existence as music. Even thoug...

Hip Hop was once the African-American experiences and the voices of their people being told throughout music in the early 1990's. African-American youth experiences came about from the rise in police brutality, the crack cocaine epidemic, and its prison industrial complex counterparts. Its&apos...

The goodness of Hip Hop has been a question in today's society for quite some time. Some say that it causes negative and positive actions to occur due to the graphic natural and sexual reference displayed in its lyrics. Others would argue that Hip Hop places a "matrix" (Britton, &q...

Matt TetreaultHumanities CensorshipAs a parent there are a few groups I would not let my child listen to until they were mature enough that the music would not have an effect on their everyday life. A group that has explicit lyrics dealing with drugs, sex, and violence is probably not the best music...

Music lyrics have undergone dramatic changes since the introduction of rock music more than 40 years ago. This is of vital interest and concern for parents .During the past four decades; music lyrics have become increasingly explicit, particularly with reference to sex, drugs, crime and violence.Rec...

Snoop Dogg, the gangsta rapper from the West Coast shows how rapping helped to straighten out his life. From the very start Snoop had it pretty rough living on the streets and all. He had done some rapping with his friends, but it never really went anywhere until the right person had heard him. ...

Is Hip-Hop Really That "Hip"?The music genre defined as hip-hop, or rap, has been gaining a lot of attention over the past twenty years. In their articles, J. Victoria Sanders (Horizon), Allison Samuels, N'Gai Croal, David Gates( Newsweek), and an unknown author (Time), discuss the changing faces o...

CensorshipRecently we have been hearing a lot about the need for censorship oftelevision and recording industries. Whether it is the cartoon Beavis andButthead, the controversial television drama NYPD Blue or rap recordingartists, someone always s eems to arguing about their negative effects onsocie...

Wonder why they call You Bitch? In today's times the popularity of the hip-hop culture immerses us, a black community, in Fashion, Culture and Language. Every where you turn some form of this empire is in your sights, It has its grips holding tight on to anyone whom it can entrances with it's melodi...

No society has ever existed, as far as we know, which has not exercised some form of censorship over the conduct and opinions of its members... Good morning teachers and students. Censorship by the government infringes upon the rights of the individual and inhibits freedom of expression. Now, censor...