Do Rap Culture Mirrors The Negative Effects In Society?

Rap music is a music genre that has been around since the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City and was pioneered by a Jamaican immigrant by the name of DJ Kool Herc, who started transporting simple rap songs at his parties, which was also by the Jamaican tradition of toasting. Rap has been popular since the 1990s as artists like Biggie Smalls, Tupac, and N.W.A were all popular artists in rap in the 1990s and P. Diddy and Dr. Dre were well known producers at the time and they still are as of today. Rap has become a popular genre of music, as it is mainly heard by teenagers. However, there have been second thoughts on the genre because of the artists using explicit language and content in their lyrics. Rap artists have been heavily criticized
Throughout its brief history rap has been criticized for its violent misogyny and whether rap music is portrayed with “music violence”, “lethal lyrics”, “violent pornography”, and “aural violence” that has been expressed against rap because it provided a “gangsta ideology”, a shameless acceptance of violence and misogyny (Armstrong 184). In the article “Hip Hop Culture Mirrors the Negative Effects in Society?” By Leigh Haugh, she questions if hip-hop has become a negative influence on not only ourselves as individuals, but for everyone in our society. Hip-hop was also being recognized by the lifestyles of many individuals, and it also has created its own path on how life should be, especially in the black communities. For example, In the The Pew Research Team’s article “King’s Dream Remains an Elusive Goal”, statistics show that Blacks have mainly got some racial equality (39%) toward Martin Luther King’s I have a Dream speech of racial equality and 79% show what needs to be accomplished in order to achieve racial equality (Pew Research Team 628). Mainly 57% of blacks say they have gotten along with whites and it has decreased by 13% when blacks get along with Hispanics 44% of the time (Pew Research Team 629). Rap expresses how the younger people react to hip-hop and it’s culture by speaking and dressing differently. It shows how rap music and its artists like to express
It offers a critique of dominant establishments like the police and politicians. Rap music allows black youth to express their feelings in order for others to understand their troubles. As rap artists mainly have oppressing backgrounds, the only way they express themselves is with words of they have seen and what they have learned. Rap music helps forge a community spirit amongst youth and those who like that type of music. Rap gives us a realistic perspective of black youth and their lives. For example, in the song “Everyday Struggle” by rap artist Biggie Smalls, he talks about his life of drug dealing and how it had a negative impact on his life, and his consequences of doing it, giving the idea that drug dealing has a negative influence on one’s life, this song is a prime example that rap artist do speak out to society on how they feel living a life of