African American Rap Music

Rap music has become one of the most significant aspects of the American hip-hop culture. The genre features underlying urban cultural politics that fuse well with African oral traditions (Rose 139). Typically, it explores racial politics boldly by criticizing the police and the government, especially regarding how these institutions respond to black youths and the challenges they face. Rap music also explores issues related with sexuality, including of misogyny and domination (Cobb & Boettcher 3041). In essence, it is a fabric of the vibrant, aesthetic, noisy, and powerful elements of American popular culture that the youths as both a source of information and a means of expression.
Because rap music is popular among African Americans, it

In their unapologetic way, they expressed accounts of violence, death, drugs and despair that were a daily reality of many urban dwelling poor youths. Whereas the rest of society concentrated on discussing what the music was about, more so about male and sexual aggression, to the young people, it was a means of news. It was a reporting about their lives to the rest of the world in their unique ways that were exciting. Since no cable or television networks would come to them in their environments, rap music was taking their message to the world. Primarily, the music of artists such Tupac Shakur’s showed the world the violence, the hopelessness and the despair from which many gangsta rappers are raised up. However, the messages justify violence as a means of solving many disputes that in the end even kills the musicians themselves (Richardson & Scott

Obviously, this is a genre of music that has played a leading role in the development of music for decades now and had a history of music and the people. In understanding one genre of music and applying critical thinking to it, it is possible for students to understand the larger world of music. However, not many people used to take it seriously to study the history of the genre as they did other courses.
A whole generation grew up listening to rock music, and the music influenced their generation. Mostly, the teaching of the famous music is for a particular reason because it has embraced social commentary and has a real historical value. From the early years of the music, the musicians managed to challenge the status quo in the society more the question on race. The teaching would be critical to help lovers of music history understand the roles different musicians played in the growth of the genre. Indeed, some scholars have argued that it is rock music that introduced the African Americans to the white American especially, Elvis Presley. From a historical point of view, the study of such history is important because some songs stories of real people and the challenges that they faced like soldiers who return from wars and find themselves unable to cater for their