Gangster Rap and its negative influence 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 l...

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 began in the mid 1970's with artists such as Grandmaster Flash, Africa Bambaataa, and Kurtis Blow. According to the encyclopedia based web site infoplease.com " the word rap is derived from a 1960's slang word for conversation. (www.kids.infoplease.com). This extraordinary style of music...

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 ...

Does gangster music reflect reality or Violence? Gangster or Rap music can be considered a style of art, and a way for the artists to express feelings through their words on paper. However, there are quite a few rap artists that get criticized for their lyric...

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...

Music Lyrics being NON-VIOLENTRap music can be considered a style of art, and a way for the artists to expressfeelings through their words on paper. However, there are quite a few rap artists that getcriticized for their lyrics. In my essay, I want to discuss why rappers use certain lyrics intheir m...

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...

How Rap gets a Bad Rap From its early days in the Bronx to its international popularity, rap and hip-hop, the two words used interchangeably, have become a big part of the entertainment industry. Despite its success, the rap industry has been plagued with controversy. News media's attenti...

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...

The content of music lyrics should be censored Page 1 The contents of music lyrics should be censored. There are many different types of music. Some artist's music has profanity and some do not. Many parents complain about their children going out and buying a cd that has a lot of pr...

Music Crushes Racial Boundaries Hip-Hop music better known as Rap music was the most popular influential and controversial form of black and Latino music to emerge in the Bronx in the early 1970s. In this sense Rap music entered into American culture as a new vocabulary expressio...

CENSORSHIP In today's society, all types of music artists are expressing their views, opinions and feelings in their songs about what they see and what they know. This is on of the great things about this country, the freedom to express yourself. It is not fair, nor is it constitutional that music...

THE EVOLUTION OF RAP MUSICRap is a form of urban music, which emerged from the 'hip-hop' movement of the South Bronx, New York, in the early 1970's. The hip-hop culture was comprised of the popular street activities of African-American youth during the 1970's such as: styles of language, "street-sla...

Name: Justin Brown Date: March 17th 2002 Course Section: The History of Rap Music Specific purpose: To inform my audience on the history of rap music. Thesis: Hip Hop has become like WWF Wrestling. Central idea: I want my audience to know and understand the roots of rap music Introductio...

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...

I.Hip hop defined as the artistic response to oppression. A way of expression in dance, music, word/song. A culture that thrives on creativity and nostalgia. As a musical art form it is stores of inner-city life, often with a message, spoken over beats of music. The culture includes rap and any ...

The 1980s was the decade when hip hop began to really take off and gain popularity throughout the United States. Hip hop music, which really started to develop during the 1970s in New York City, began filling the streets and subways, and taking over clubs throughout the major cities. Hip hop start...