Rap American Culture

Rap is a genre in music that consists of rhyming or being poetic over a certain unique beat. The origin of rap is significantly different from any other form of music. The flow, change, subject of the music, and the instrumentals behind the rapping has all changed with time. Most people would underestimate the complexity of the music and the evolution it has undergone. The real roots of rap music began in the late 1980’s with the “Golden Age.” It was innovative and mostly based around the party scene. Gangsta Rap followed the Golden age and was very impactful on the young culture. After the Gangsta Rap era came the time in rap referred to as Crunk Rap which combined the country sound with the party lifestyle. Conscious

Rap music officially started in 1978 in the Bronx, New York. According to the author, most Americans

Rap was found in the United States in the 1970's. But in the 1990's, it was a great decade for hip hop music. Rap music today compared to the 1990's has a huge difference. The difference between them is the lyrics. Lyrics back in the 1990's were less about artists success and more about his or her rise to success (Clara McNulty-Finn 1). The lyrics were also mostly studying politics, hate crimes against blacks, drug dealing, racism against the black community, sexual activities with women, violence, and living in poverty.

The genre of rap music has changed a lot throughout the years. With most things 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 times. 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 and how they truly feel. Rap songs can deliver heavy thought provoking lyrics or just the opposite. It may contain many harmful and bad lyrics which are heavily related to black stereotypes. Mostly anybody can listen to this genre of music but what group of people is it actually intended for? Most modern Rap music is targeted towards white

How has rap music transcended its purpose since it began? Rap, also known as hip hop, has undergone many changes since it started in the mid-1970s to now. Throughout the span of about 20 years, rap music has gone from being a subcultural expression to a main aspect of American culture. Rap music is extremely controversial due to vulgar language, racial slurs, and degrading sexist comments, but that is not what rap music is all about.

Even though many of us are familiar with rap music, most of us don’t know its origin. Rap music began in West Africa. It started out as a story that was turned into rhymes. All they had for a beat were drums and made up instruments. In Africa, griots began telling stories about their home and family. Griots were the West African historians and storytellers who kept all the records throughout the village. In the 1970s, rap music started becoming popular in the U.S as street art among African American teenagers. A popular rap group gain their popularity in 1979. This group was known as ‘The Sugarhill Gang.’ They are mostly known for their single “Rapper’s Delight” that made producers realize how big rap was getting. As rap began expanding, African

Rap music has been around for many decades. Rap/hip hop is a music genre that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that usually accompanies rapping. Since rap music’s explosion, it took the industry and became the important part of hip hop culture. It has advanced over time as a part of hip hop culture, which originated from urban youth in New York as a cultural movement. Its original listeners were primarily African America and it has spread around the world and hip hop has come to be a part for rap music to audiences. This music genre has risen over the years and has become a popular. “It continues to be one of the most popular genres of music, crossing over to different cultures and influencing different generations through its lyrical content and beats”(Weebly). Although many people disagree that rap music can actually have positive influences, all seem to defiantly agree that it can have negative influences. Many people agree that rap music has many negative influences: glorifying violence, sexualization, drug use, and egotistical. Rap can also have positive influences including unification and education, provide support, entertainment, and hope.

Every day many kids of all ages are listening to a variety of music from rap like Migos to Oldies like Billy Joel. However, most teens predominantly listen to rap artist. Today there are a lot of terms or lingo that come from rap, therefore it also has a major input to how millennials are speaking today. Music today is the fastest growing art form in the world today and has been influencing people in different ways since the beginning of music. Kids today are listening to a lot of rap music and the artist has a big impact on how they see things. Even though some might disagree, rap music and artist are influencing this generation more than you think. While parents are worried that this music is making their kids more violent and rebellious,

     Rap music is on its way to becoming one of the most popular forms of music on the market today. Although rap has only been popular for the last 15 years, it can be traced back to the days of slavery and even further to the tribes of Africa. Rap is used now as it was used for the past few centuries, as a form of communication. This music has been a way for the young African-American's to speak out about their lives and the struggles they go through. Like rock-n-roll and other forms of music that achieve national attention, rap is being blamed for corrupting our youth. There is a new type of rap music out called "Gangster Rap". This form of rap music is not the same and should not be compared with rap

Rap music is the most powerful tool that those communities have to express to the rest of the country how difficult for them is to succeed. Lakeyta Bonnette says that "they are left with outlets such as rap to express their angst, anger, and disappointment at being left behind"(Bonnette, 238). Black communities often are forgotten by the government and if it wasn’t for the rap music, those communities would have been unnoticed by the whole country too. Not to mention, rappers besides being the voice for the black communities, they also donate money to those black communities to make it better and safer for the

Rap is important to me because, of its meaningful thoughts, what they been through, and what they need to say. Rappers as today just rap, they make a topic about love, money,cars, but back in the 90’s they made rap about them, their life. Rap is still as it is rhyme.

Rap music and R&B from rapper such as Tupac Shakur,The Notorious B.I.G , Snoop Dogg, NWA, and Nelly. All these wonderful rappers made up this form of music called “rap” due to their struggles and expressing of their feeling and emotions through rapping and making it into music . “There were kids in japan that don’t understand a word in english, but can still recite a Jay-Z album from beginning to end”(Baker 95). The music they were making was going all around world, rapping about the pain and the cruel things they had to face in society and in the world. “In the early 1990’s a new form of hip-hop made its way out ‘A mixture of break beats and down tempo electronic music’ made it around the world and most popular in clubs” (Baker 9). Artists went from just break beats to clubs and made these young rappers come up

Rap music industry had an astonishing change in the last few years, becoming the most popular and influencing music genre. The immense growth of rap music brings people from different classes and background together, causing the boundaries between black people and white people converge. Moreover, it provides a platform for artists to express themselves through their artistic creativity delivering individualism and cultural background to certain audience that shares the same culture and beliefs.

Rap is a type of popular music in which words are recited rapidly and rhythmically over a prerecorded, typically electronic instrumental backing. It’s hated by many people that believe in the stereotype that only blacks make and listen to rap and it’s only and always about shooting cops, drugs, money and sex. Which leads to the stereotype that all black people rap but that’s a whole another subject and a whole another paper. First of all not all people who like rap are black. Second ones who say all rap is about money drugs and sex are people who know nothing about rap, and judge it by what they see on TV. The people who like rap and actually understand it know its poetry. Despite what any other person says rap is like poetry with attitude, poetry with a bit of “gangsterism”.

Rap has certainly grown dramatically throughout the years and has also sparked interest in many people. Many people would die for this music but they do not know the past of their so beloved genre. Knowing the background is very important because you want to relate to the music you are listening to. This helps you grasp the meaning of the lyrics more and understand the style they are using. Rap music has developed from DJ Kool Herc and his new ideas, the first song reaching the top 100 charts, and other types of genres such as jazz, R&B, poetry, and black gospel music.