The Importance Of Rap Music

Consider rap music from back then as a voice Rap music taken the music industry by a storm and has made a major impact on the hip hop culture. It is a music genre that is heard many places that one could be for example; the car, your neighborhood and even some retail stores. Many people confuse rap and hip hop to be the same thing. Not to be confused there really isn’t that much that is different from each other. Rap is more focused on the lyrical form telling their perspective on the world. Meanwhile Hip hop is considered the same thing, but it mainly focuses more on the beat and hip hop dancing. So basically hip hop is the culture and rap music is the movement. Although rap music is looked upon as a movement that is morally wrong, there

“Rap was born as a form of necessary speech. It provided young people, many of whom were from difficult and impoverished backgrounds with a voice and a means of vivid expression” (Gates, Henry). Describing exactly what rap music is depends on the person. To me it is a form of storytelling and a form of poetry in which artists would chant over rhythm their struggles and basically their perspective of this world or society. The lyrics are something that contain deep meaning that is made to point out a problem, it’s something that is not made just to sound good and catchy but to tell a story. Meanwhile, for others rap music is something that they don’t give a second chance. They are not willing to listen to the lyrics in context; they are biased and say that rap music is inadequate. They find rap music to be aggressive and unmelodic. I guess everyone has their own liking in the kind of music they listen too. It’s a good thing because if everyone was exactly the same with the same taste in music, then there would be one song in the world which would be very boring and dull. Like any genre of music, rap music is a genre that takes time to hold in high regard. If one were to compare jazz music to rap music, I would say that most people don’t like to listen to jazz music because it requires the person to listen to detail and it requires repeated exposure. Meanwhile rap music is idiosyncratic because it

Some say that rap music is what causes people to go on a violent frenzy but in reality the music isn’t what cause someone to act. It’s up to the person to follow up on their actions and actually decides to go. Depending on who listens to rap music it could possibly be harmful. Where I’m getting at is that rap music could potentially be harmful for the youth. Nowadays mostly what everyone does is listen to music; especially teenagers. There are many genres out there that kids might listen to but parents are most worried when children listen to rap music. “Studies have long shown that media messages have a pronounced impact on childhood risk behaviors. Exposure to images of smoking in movies influences a child’s risk for picking up the habit” (Parker-Pope,Tara). You know, kids growing up need a person they look up to, but parents don’t want it to be rappers who their children look up to. Not because of how they dress but what these artists display on their lyrics and their videos. I personally believe that the songs don’t particularily push children to the point where they have to mimic exactly what the artist is doing. If their parents raised them right, then the children would know it’s not the best idea to be like a rapper. You may say that “kids don’t know better” but in reality they know the difference between something that is bad and good, it’s