Often times when people hear about Hip Hop/Rap music, theyfll paint a
picture in their heads of black men cussing, guns, marijuana, lots of gold,
and girls looking like prostitutes. Parents and teachers put an image in
their kidfs head that Rap music is gbadh, and they donft want their kids
to be influenced by something that is negative. With the way Rap music is
advertised in the US, I would have to agree with that looking at it from an
average parentfs point of view. But what people donft know is that Hip
Hop isnft just a type of music, itfs a culture. Itfs a culture full of
original elements, and itfs also a place where people can show others what
theyfve got and who they are. Within this original society called Hip Hop,
there are basically four main elements of MC, Break, Tag, and DJ. And each
is represented by millions of people all over the globe. When the four come
together, it makes Hip Hop music, and people live the music instead of
MC-ing is what people know as rapping. The main point of an MC is to make
your crowd enjoy your music, and to send a message out to them. Unlike most
of the lyrics out on the market today, Hip Hop contains meaning and it sends
a message to the listeners. Although those messages might have bad words,
and show images of things that are socially wrong, thatfs actually whatfs
going on where they are from, and thatfs who they are. Their music
represents their area and their people, and itfs no different from a farmer
singing about his cows and chickens in Idaho. Besides, gGangster Raph isn
ft the only type of Hip Hop music, itfs actually only a small sect of it
all. Many rappers put out lyrics about what they believe in, their own
philosophies, entertaining others, and although it may seem unlikely, many
lyricists seem like Einstein to me. Just like all of the other geniuses like
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