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    multi-cultural country. Labeling rap music as violent, aids in the destruction of America by suppressing voices, hindering positive changes, and preventing unity. Persuading people that rap music is violent is damaging to the reputation of the African American community. In Joan Morgan’s “The misogyny of rap” she does not mention any form of positive rap music. This shows her focus is a specific problem in certain types of rap music and not that all of rap is violent. If rap music is violent then most categories

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    you’re king of African music you’re the king because music is the king of all professions” (Fela Kuti: Music is the Weapon). Rap music has been a staple in modern day music and pop culture since its beginning in the 1970’s in the South Bronx area of New York. Rap started as an underground movement started by many artists and DJ’s (or disc jockeys). It started as a form of expressing oneself and discussing many social and political issues through music. But now in the 21st century, rap has changed dramatically

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    Rap vs. Rock maybe the most important topic of the century. Rap and rock and roll, though they are both types/genres of music are very different, in style, crowd, and the instruments that are used to record the music. The style of music is very important to because it gives it an identity. This “style” is important in new music, old music, in between music, but it is especially important in modern music because it is what defines the different types. All styles have different beats, different lyrics

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    TORONTO -- Rap music has been one of the most popular genres of music for years. So it was normal that many teens of Brookline Secondary School listened to rap music. During the lunch break on March 4th, two males got into a physical altercation. It was said that the conflict started over some sort of a prior agreement between the two. Though, the principal of the school made a decision later that day that would leave all the students puzzled and outraged. “To be honest, I don’t know how banning

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    The History of Rap Rap music has been around since slaves worked the fields. Rap music is a form of music where a story is told through singing. Although rap has been around since slaves worked in the fields, the lyrics have changed, the focus of the songs have grown deeper in meaning, and rappers have rapidly changed over the years, causing this genre of music to grow in popularity all over the world. Rappers have evolved over the years, managing to create more complex songs and have complex background

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    What is rap music? Rap music is a type of music that is mostly listened to now in 2017. Some people like and don't like rap music, but I'm my opinion I think it is the best genre of music in the whole world. Rap music is good, and bad at some situations, but it also lets the rapper let out his emotions in a type of way that is not violent to anything, or anybody. How is music good? In the 1990’s NWA made a song called “F*** Tha Police”. The song showed the groups feelings about police brutality

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    Throughout history, music has been used to express the feelings of people or groups whom may have no other outlet to express themselves. The best example of this occurrence would be the lower class of America’s use of rap music. Rap music started out as a fun variation of disco with the purpose to make people dance and enjoy themselves, but it later transformed into one of the best outlets to express the struggles of poverty in the United States. The genre gained popularity when the song “Rapper

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    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. Rap music can be traced back to the mid-1970s. The UXL Encyclopedia

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    Since the start of rap music, it has received negative views due to rappers expressing lyrical content in areas such as degrading women, glorifying gang culture, guns, promoting violence within communities as well as toward law enforcement officials. The genre has been ridiculed for having a tremendous impact among its adult and youth listeners and influences increase in violence. Within the genre, there are artist, who promote positive messages. Though in some rap lyrics deviant behaviors are expressed

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    My favorite kind of music is rap. I enjoy reading and writing poetry. If you think about it, rap is just like poetry. It’s even better because I can listen to it. It’s amazing how rappers can write poetry and talk about it through their music. People dislike rap and say it’s trash because all they talk about is money, women, and drugs. This is true but also false. There are many rappers that talk about this stuff. There are also many other rappers that talk about their life stories and the real word

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