The Causes And Effects Of Rap Music In America

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

This qualitative study takes a look at the relationship between gangsta rap music and violent behavior because there is little research devoted to this area.

Dre has produced songs that not only lashes out at women and police officers, he lashes out at enemies, sending threats, and suggesting violent acts as a way for revenge. Although many of these lyrics are true feelings of the musician, they encouraged and promoted violence a way to seek revenge on a person, no matter who they are but because of what they have done. Dr. Dre has had many rivalry with people in which whom he grew up with and others who he worked with and many of these rivalry stems from gang-related incidents. This is the major problem presented in the genre of these two musicians, “Rap”. In this genre, musicians’ loyalty are tested based on where they come from and what they have to offer.

Music and society have always been closely related. For years now music has been apart of people’s everyday lives all around the world. Having so many different genres out there, it makes it easy to be appealing to so many different ethnic backgrounds. However, one type of genre in particular has seemed to grab the attention of a younger generation. Rap music has undoubtedly had its utmost impact on African American youth, since many of the performers themselves are African American. An overtly masculine culture dominates rap music and creates gender stereotypes that become abundantly popular to the youthful audience. Three constant themes that are found within the rap culture are encouragement of violence, the misogynistic representation of women, an extreme hatred of homophobia. Each theme plays a detrimental role in the process of defining black masculinity as well as shaping the values, morals, and beliefs that its younger audience adopts after tuning into this “gangster lifestyle”.

The impact of rap music in today’s society is extremely substantial. Many Americans listen to rap music, even though different rap artist discuss various issues in their songs, it may influences their fans to do the same. A large amount of rap music contains explicit lyrics that describe illegal activities, aggression, and sexual content. Researchers from Iowa State University and the Texas Department of Human Services found that aggressive music lyrics increase aggressive thought and feelings, might perpetuate aggressive behavior and have long term effects (American Psychological Association). Therefore, when Americans listen to rap music with that type of perspective it promotes misogyny, illegal activities and sexual content.

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

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

Rap music over the years has embraced black talent and lead many people who lived troubled lives into a life of fame and glory. The problem is as rap music has evolved, the lyrical content has been highly focused around depicting negative images of the urban black community. It has turned from being positive to now just describing the life of drugs and riches. Songs range from depicting women as prostitutes, selling drugs such as cocaine and heroine, using drugs to get by in life, and spending excessive amounts of money on expensive cars and jewelry. Washington Informer writer, Rudy Gourdine, brings up a good point when she states, “Can we overlook the targeting of young Black women with mean spirited and derogatory words and images that often prevent them from forming successful relationships(Gourdine) ?” She speaks of how in urban areas it is often overlooked or ignored how degrading the lyrics are and what they are doing. There are many good points as to what rap music could be causing in urban areas but there is no solid proof that rap music causes all to think or act on the music.

Frequently, the gansta rap has been the center of attention on national debates regarding the amount of violence in the media and its effects on America’s youth. In some occasions, there have been cases in where political experts and television analysts have accused individual rap starts for real life tragic events. However, it is imperative to understand that if hip hop music is violent, it is because the songs express the reality that African American live on a daily basis. In order to be objective on this matter, it is essential to look past the controversy and acknowledge that it is unrealistic for one particular

People argue that rap music has changed over time it went from having a politically and socially conscious message to now being gangster rap.

Reevaluating Rap Rap music has been a large staple of pop culture for the last few decades. With rappers like Tupac, Biggie Smalls, Snoop Dog, and many more icons, the rap music industry has reached a large audience. This style of music is notorious for using explicit language, drugs, alcohol, and portraying women as objects. With many studies done on how music affects someone's mood and the way they act, it would be accepted as fact that rap music will make people's actions bad. This is not the case, just because a person listens to rap music doesn't mean that they are more likely to do drugs or drink.

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.

Rap is a genre of music which has been made with many forms of instrumentation such as guitars, pianos, cellos, violins, drums, as well as recorded sounds and voices which are inserted in the songs. Over the decades, there have been many influential, successful, talented, and even iconic rappers who have paved the way for rappers in following generations. However, Rap has become more than just music that people listen to, it has become a culture of its own that is frequently and closely associated with drugs and gang violence. Although Rap music has only been around since the 1970’s, the root form of rap music is thousands of years old and has made rap into what it is today with a foundation resembling nothing related to rap.

Older rap comes from many generations of hip hop artist. Infact, there are more rappers than people think there are. Rap starting in the 1970’s, about 47 years ago. DJ Kool Herc, the first artist known to rap, was also the first DJ for hip hop too. When rap started, it was not the most popular. It took some time to get around, but once it did, people loved it. Later, in the older rap era, rap got even more popular with 2pac, Biggie Smalls, NWA, Ice Cube, and other rappers like Wu-Tang Clan. albums started selling like crazy.

First, the uniqueness behind rap music cannot be found in any other music. Because rap is lyric driven music, the speed and the pronunciation a rapper uses affects the outcome of the sound greatly. Also rap contains a lot of wordplay and figurative language that makes it complex and meaningful. The difficulty behind making a rap adds a competitive nature that most other genres do not