Would there be rap music if there wasnt slavery ?

Question

If there wasnt slavery or if there wasnt segregation would there be rap music?

Answer 1

Only Blues came from slavery, anything else is a derivitive.

Answer 2

rap music was a product of the 1980s. centuries after the end of slavery in th US. although angst and tension lingered, it is unfair to say that the aftermath of slavery spawned the music of a generation. you could then say taht slavery and segregation was the reason for disco or R&B. the messgae in the music may have been influences by the struggles of a particular group but the sound and the music is something in everyone. music ignites a feeling or emotion and people use that emotion to convey a message through lyrics. i think there would be hip hop and rap music today regaurdless it just might have a different reputation than it does now.

Answer 3

I do not get what rap music has to do with slavery or segregation. I can say that rap has to do a lot with culture and that Rap and Hip Hop is a part of African American Culture and is somewhat part of African American History. Some of Rap music may targets to segregation and unethical decisions that are either practiced or still effected today.
A lot of the times rap talks about how blacks have to struglle to eat, to get a job, to live in a house, or to live itself. Those are some of aftermaths of segregation and slavery, because one many people are still prejudiced of giving high paying jobs to people of color and two because we started late in this country 300 years late so it is hard to find jobs for blacks.
To conclude rap music to me was once black togetherness but now it seems like sometimes it means black segregation because of gangs and diss songs and all of that is leading to the worsening of peace in America.

Answer 4

Oh, that's a good question.

Hard to say. It's a safe bet that if there had never been slavery, there still would have been segregation based on perceived races. Fact is that we still haven't figured out how to get along with people who have different skintones than we do, and so it's a good bet that historical Americans still would have shunted those who they perceived to be less than them to one side.

Rap music itsel grew out of a jamaican musical style that involved mixing two songs on a turntable and improvising lyrics, which was easier to do by speaking than by attempting to sing and match keys. Jamaica is a pretty strongly-segregated country, especially in urban areas, just like the US is.

That being said:
Modern rap (which I guess started with Grand Master Flash) IS an outgrowth of the need of the primarily black urban community to express itself through music what life is really like in the inner city.

So, to answer your question: Yeah, we'd probably still have rap. And it would probably sound a lot like it does today.

Answer 5

rap has nothing to do with slavery. Slavery was gone a long time before rap came about. Rap is mostly about drugs, shooting and women that they call b i t c hes and w h o r e s

Answer 6

Yes - Africans would have brought their musical traditions over regardless of how they got here. It's pretty much all the slaves COULD bring... so yes... that would have eventually evolved into rap music and hip hop and jazz and all of that. I don't see why it would not have. Maybe if there wasn't slavery, the music wouldn't be so "angry" sometimes...who knows?

Answer 7

why not? Slavery/segregation has no effect on the evolution of rap music...

Answer 8

rap music is based on a multittude of sources, not just slavery

Answer 9

no longer even close. CDs over listed right here are fairly extreme priced (£15-20 a pop, it quite is about $25-30) except you purchase the more inexpensive ones that are in the charts, so if i did not have the record sharing decision, i might want to have likely given up on hip hop about 5 years in the past.

Answer 10

No i dont think so. But when i think back at the beginning of rap when it was between M.C Hammer and Vanilla Ice...lol