What good has rap music ever done?

Question

I mean besides educate normal people about how to pimp, how to deal drugs, how to smack a ho, how to sport you blingy dubs on your caddilac, or how to get a gold grill. Yo? What ****** good has ever came out of c-rap music anyway?

Answer 1

Well I don't know how long you have been listening to rap, but in the old day (late 70's and early 80's) rap music was more entertaining. It was something the whole family could enjoy and some had lyrics telling children not to drop out of school. But now days rap music isn't about anything it's a waste of radio air space. I mainly listen to R&B and not the pop/hip hop R&B mess, I'm talking about the real stuff.

Answer 2

Anyone who thinks rap music has never had a positive message obviously hasn't been listening to it for very long. In its beginnings, rap music served as the voice of young Black people. It gave us somebody and something we could relate to and identify with. What most people forget (and what some people don't know at all) is that initially, rap music was not only about partying and having fun, storytelling, bragging about one's lyrical skills while roasting another MC, etc., but it was also about speaking on social and/or political issues affecting Black America. That's why it was (and still is, in some cases) so popular and important to us. Obviously, modern mainstream rap has strayed almost totally away from those concepts. The reason for this is partially due to the unfortunate condition and mentalities of some members of the Black community. But leave it to greedy record companies and good ol' Corporate America to find a way to bastardize rap and sell it to the masses as the "trend du jour" so they can make money off of it. They saw that the more controversial aspects of the music (violence, misogyny, money, etc.) resulted in record sales, so they took it and ran with it, shoving it in our faces and filling our ears with it every chance they get.

Sadly, this question is a perfect example of the fact that most people's opinions of rap music are based on only one dimension of the genre (the mostly negative and stereotypical mainstream rap that's force fed to us on a daily basis) instead of the genre as a whole. Not all rap is like what you see on TV or hear on mainstream radio stations. If you were willing to dig a little deeper into the genre, you'd discover that not all rap emphasizes materialism, misogyny or is filled with profanity. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of hip hop artists out there who don't fit the "cookie cutter rapper" mold and talk about subjects other than sex, drugs, money and murder. For example:

- A Tribe Called Quest
- Little Brother
- Mos Def
- Talib Kweli
- Common
- De La Soul
- Dead Prez
- The Roots
- Madlib (and his alter-ego, Quasimoto)
- Five Deez
- Ugly Duckling
- Slum Village...(and plenty more)

Unfortunately, you'll rarely find any of those artists in the mainstream media because good ol' Corporate America has flooded the market with whatever makes them the most money as opposed to actual talent, variety and substance.

So before some of you go judging rap/hip hop, just know that your opinion holds a lot more weight if we know you've actually taken the time to look below the surface (read: beyond the mainstream).

Answer 3

Rap music seems to limit the sense of self, hoisting belief systems that benefit the self at the cost of a criminal lifestyle, and convinces people that they are part of something greater than themselves when they buy the products and become little more than walking billboards. It encourages youth to strive for status in an extremely limited corridor, which more often than not leads to nothing. As for culture & history, it's lost...when the most popular songs are about Attucks, Du Bois, King & Hampton, then we can discuss culture. My question is, when the hell are we are ever going to see a genuine new style of music?

Answer 4

Many rap enthusiasts assert that rap functions as a voice for a community without access to the mainstream media. According to advocates, rap serves to engender self-pride, self-help, and self-improvement, communicating a positive and fulfilling sense of black history that is largely absent from other American institutions.

Answer 5

initially, thanks to be a stan! anybody calls him so "unique" even although an excellent variety of human beings had performed the clinically insane variety ingredient earlier he did it in SSLP. average, he's especially good yet under no circumstances should be seen between the great. probable no longer even a real 100 artist. strengthen your knowledge of hip and fee him adversarial to the likes of a few more beneficial positive artists: (those are merely off the authentic of my head) Black theory, The Wu Tang prolonged kinfolk (quite any of them), Cunninlynguists (their disco is loopy lol), Outkast had some classics, Black huge call (back, both of them), Nasty Nas, Blu, The Pharcyde (specially fat lip and Tre), A Tribe stated as Quest, etc. etc. etc. those are merely some random names that i'd fee more beneficial than Em.

Answer 6

Dude that's just saying well what has any kind music has ever done for us

Answer 7

i so totally agree with u...... they only talk about shi* that "ghetto" want to know and stuff they want to act cool in front of girls..... Only some ghetto guys are ok but most of them are like asshol*s and u know u want to flick them but there going to jump u and stuff (fight u)

Answer 8

it's got Eminem a multi-million dollar contract for one thing.

Answer 9

kept me happy and many others happy