Black Stereotypes In Rap Music

he genre of rap music has alternated a lot throughout the years. In most instances time can, and will change something or someone. In the case of Rap music, it has been flipped entirely upside down. Although, it carries a few important aspects through the many changes it travels through with time. It is often theorized that rap music delivers messages that have a lot to do with black stereotypes. It is a form in which they can express their struggles, experiences and how they truly feel and are often meant to have people “relate” to what is being said in the music. This genre of music can deliver heavy thought, provoking lyrics or just the opposite. It may contain many explicit and vulgar lyrics, which are typically related to black stereotypes.

By default, rappers may want to appeal more to their target audience by rapping about the stereotype that white kids perceive to be real about the black community. To further clarify, rappers in today’s era rap less about their struggles and replace them with a good beat and meaningless lyrics behind it. They simply don’t care anymore about the content of the lyrics, but more so about pleasing their

a kind of armchair ghetto tourism — a way of experiencing the thrill of “otherness” without actually having to be anywhere other than my comfortable home and deal with anyone other than my comfortable family and friends who were all basically like me.” This quotation represents how people would like to feel like they are a gangster at times of high stress but they don’t want to follow through and face any consequences. They use the hardcore lyrics of violence, drugs, etc. as a way to relieve tension in their life. It’s as if white people use this sort of music to mellow out any built up anger they had stored up. It helps balance out their emotions by a means of stress therapy. The white community seems to demand the edgy rebellious music that they can only find through rappers that are mainly