The experience of music making and listening is foundational in every observed culture and society, producing extraordinary effects on thoughts, emotions, and physiology. Due to this power, we are not only conscious of its positive effects, but also potentially negative ones. In the society we live in now parents are becoming more increasingly more conscious and aware of the music their children are listening to and more specifically rap. It's like every time parents hear a certain cuss word or just a simple melody with a rapper it is now being frowned upon. Rap is just becoming a stigma where it is just brainwashing people to mindless and unorthodox methods of entertainment. This is not only demoting to the actual culture of rap but is giving those artists who work nonstop that put meaning, continuity, and sublime messages in each verse they meticulously compose a shameful display for the efforts they put in. One thing I must ask to someone who truly believes that rap is degrading, is if they would think a certain poem or piece of literature with awards and credibility that is praised by the public, but has not only vulgar language but …show more content…
What I have hoped conveyed by the end of all these points I have made is to not only expand the horizons of people who enjoy music, but understand the importance of it and more specifically rap. Rap like all other forms of entertainment convey feelings but there is an overall exception to it as a whole. For anybody of any age to listen to rap and understand the meanings that person conveys or certain topics they have discussed, and for that person to form thoughts and opinions on things they were never to savvy about is a major feat of rap culture and music as a whole. Rap will not only evolve but hopefully change the public's mind about how vital it is to the music industry but can change how we percieve
Rap has changed the faces of women in the community from a more positive image to a more negative one. It is focused more on women’s bodies and not their intellect. Rap music portrays women by creating impossible beauty standards, dehumanizing women and making women look inferior in the male’s eye.
Rap music was creating a negative influence throughout the music industry for awhile, it’s agreeable that modern day rap today mostly involves drugs, gangs, violence, money, etc. Although, a lot of it also gives inspiration or at least has that goal being set when creating the music. Most
Within History, Rap has been considered the “CNN for black people”; what started as a way to express struggles in the ghettos of New York has transformed into one of the most popular genres of music in America. The popularity of rap has allowed many to have their voices heard, created new fashion trends, and even developed popular modern slang used by people throughout the world. The commercialization of rap has resulted in a significant following of the culture in America but also a large number of people who oppose the music. The culture of rap music has a substantial impact on popular culture in America, and by using an open mind and looking past the violence and language, people can better understand the meaning behind rap and the perception that follows it in America today.
Whether you love it or hate it Rap music has come to be one of the most popular, yet arguable, music genres of the past decades. Today’s rap music has changed enormously since the 1970’s. Rap music was about having fun, being able to express what youth were feeling and a way to keep youth out of trouble. Rap songs usually use explicit and demeaning lyrics, which has huge influence on the youth of today. While rappers say that they’re plainly rapping about reality. They often use violence, the use of drugs and Guns as the main tool to tell the story of their lives and show how hard it is growing up in their neighbourhood. This surely does not set any good examples for the young men and women, listening to this trash and singing along with the
People in society tend to feel that rap music has a certain effect on the mind of its audience. Rap music has always been judged based upon its lyrical content because it often includes explicit lyrics that consist of vengeful and violent crimes. Associating violent acts that people commit every day to what they are hearing over the radio is complete nonsense. The reasons that rap music is not responsible for violence in our society is because violence has always been a part of our society, you have to consider the person who listens to rap music's upbringing, and you have to consider the video games and tv shows that are being portrayed and played by the public.
Music has an important role in children and adolescent’s life. Mainstream music is heard almost everywhere whether it’s on a laptop, phone, radio, cd, etc. The accessibility allows anyone to hear it at any place and situation, alone or with friends. The lyrics can have a big impact on everyone’s life’s differently. Lyrics have become more explicit in their references to misogyny, drugs and violence particularly in certain genres, like rap. I used to love to listen to rap all the time, never paying attention to what the rapper was saying. According to the dictionary rap means “Words (that) are recited rapidly and rhythmically over a prerecorded, typically electronic instrumental backing” I used to listen to rap because
The impact music has on the life of people is very powerful. It can easily revamp the way people act and take control of people’s emotions. Rap music is a very common and popular type of music within the world today. Rap music has existed since the mid 1970s, nowadays it is practically everywhere. It is easily a central focus of many young people’s lives. Rap music was essentially intended to create a voicing of one’s frustrations and disappointment with society, it has recently taken a turn and is creating a negative impact on the youth. It is the root that influences and encourages degrading women, violence, and is filled with sexual content.
In the world of music there are a variety of genres and various themes for the lyrics. In recent years, lyrics have generally slowly evolved in a negative direction. There was a time when music had no curse words, but now practically every second word is a curse word. The current music is mainly about girls, breakups, money, and living the most extravagant lifestyle possible. The musicians are incredibly talented, but they waste their talent on making music of relationship drama. The specific genre of rap is particularly guilty of this. Every rapper talks about the same thing over and over. Although it may be a different beat, have different instruments, be a different rapper, or have different words, the message is the same. It’s
The worst part about this modern rap music is the way that it is influencing the young people of America. No adult should ever listen to this obscenity, let alone an eight year old child. But that is exactly what is happening. Not just teenagers, but elementary age children are listening to this so-called “music.” Because a lot of famous rappers are African American, and because many of them came from complete poverty, a large majority of African American kids who listen to their music and come from similar backgrounds identify with them and look up to them as role models.
At some point in our lives we have heard a song that instantly related to it. That moment our souls speak to our minds telling yourself “I know what you mean” or the deep feeling of “Hey, I know how that feels.” Music is capable of generating millions if not billions of emotions and messages produced by every small sound to the last word in every song. It's been said that music is an art produced by people/groups that may vary in several genre styles. Rap music is a typical genre style that receives the most stereotypical misjudgments up to today in society.
What can be defined as “Rap music” is, like most genres, a loose labeling that has changed over time. Beginning with any piece of music with a funky beat and fast vocal delivery, rap transitioned from a new fad to a social platform to just pure entertainment. While some rappers still use their popularity to try and address pressing social issues, the majority of the so-called “rap game” just try to create a song that people can enjoy and dance to. This has had little effect on the popularity of rap, as rap has proved its more than just a fad and had cemented its spot as a legitimate genre of music (Dyson 1.)
Though rap started out as a force for positive social change, popular subgenres of hip-hop such as "gangsta rap" have since eroded much of the art form's value to society. Impressionable young people are negatively affected by rappers' obsession with guns, drugs, sex, and material possessions. Since record companies do not seem to care about negative content as long as it sells albums, parents should assume a greater role in regulating their children's listening habits. Hip-Hop is the proclamation that young people are independent and intolerant of what they consider to be adult society, which they frequently view as hypocritical.
I think rap music is a bad influence to kids and teenagers of how the violence in the video this violence,Can impact kids behavior since the actions the person does (The person singing) can do wild things. Just for example like the rappers can be doing violence “harm” to other people then kids will just do the same they will punch their friends family members throw things around. This is one thing i'm talking about this is about the violence the kids are doing this is one reason rap music is
Misogyny and degradation of women is present in almost every genre of music, yet the one genre that completely revolves around demeaning women is rap. Over the years rap and rap music videos have continually become more sexual and degrading towards women. Rap has been criticized numerous times for this reason, and that is because rap is one of the most popular genres of music for the younger generations. It is more than a genre of music, it is a complete industry filled with clothing and other merchandise. The reason this constant demeaning of women exists is because rap as a genre that rewards the objectification of women. The excuses used to justify the misogyny in rap are incomplete and lack accurate support. The most effective way
I changed my mind about rap music. Growing up, I never really liked it, the quick beats, the vast usage of inappropriate words not equipped for my adolescent ears disgusted me. I associated rap music as being "dirty," only discussing explicit topics and having no real meaning. While everyone else in high school was blaring Drake and Lil Wayne in the parking lots, I was perfectly okay with listening to Demi Lovato or John Legend. During my sophomore year of high school, my friend kept pestering me to listen to the Hamilton soundtrack, and even though the songs were raps, I realized I loved it. Eventually, I started to not associate all rap music as detrimental and discovered that some rappers rapped about important messages of adversity, conflict, and pain. This lead me to listen to Chance the Rapper's "Coloring Book, " Childish Gambino's "Red Bone and J Cole's "4 Your Eyez Only." I realized that rap is just poetry with accompaniment, poetry that has the rhythm and style to bring generations of people together.