Hip-hop and Rap Music

Hip-hop and Rap Music

Often times when people hear about Hip Hop/Rap music, they'll 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 kid's head that Rap music is "bad", and they don't 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 parent's point of view. But what people don't know is that Hip

Hop isn't just a type of music, it's a culture. It's a culture full of

original elements, and it's also a place where people can show others what

they've 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

listening to it.

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, that's actually what's

going on where they are from, and that's who they are. Their music

represents their area and their people, and it's no different from a farmer

singing about his cows and chickens in Idaho. Besides, "Gangster Rap" isn

't the only type of Hip Hop music, it's actually only a small sect of it

all. Many rappers put out lyrics about what they believe in, the...

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not just about claiming area by the gangs, and its not just about

vandalizing other people's property. People need to admit that New York

City would not have its flavor that it has today without all of those

artwork, and there are many artists that put up their pieces just so they

can show others what they got. It's a way of communication in the form of

Hip Hop.

Many other types of music can be a culture too, and each person feels if it

is a culture to them or not. If music means culture to that person, then

they probably feel that uneasy sensation of going to bed without music,

going on the train without your Walkman, and have that anger towards vacuum

cleaners. Music also is a form of communication when there is the kind of

society where people understand one another through it. Which creates

influences on others, and makes music grow.