Why Is Rap Stereotyped? Please Read Details)?

Question

People who say "rap sux its all about degrading women" etc is the laughing stock of my life. There are two sad parts to that
1. people who say that are always rock fans who go through the roof when someone says "rock is all about drugs, suicide and satan
2. Its only the garbage on the friggin radio that talks about that rubbish

Old School rap had lyrics 10 times deeper than any rock.

Answer 1

Dude, you just partially answered your own question. If all people have to go by is the crappy commercial hip-hop what are they to think? Commercial/popular rap does not represent underground or old school rap by any stretch of the imagination - I agree with you on that. Chingy will NEVER be as deep as KRS-ONE and Boogie Down Productions.

So if all people are exposed to is chicks shaking their cans, dudes throwing wads of money in the air, talking about mad bling while leaning on a Rolls - what are they supposed to think?

See, you are raising a concern about rap being stereotyped but at the same time YOU stereotype rock and roll - kind of hypocritical isn't it? Is all rock music about drugs, suicide and Satan? Not a chance! SOME of it is...but not all.

Is all hip-hop about guns, skeezy chicks and bling? Not a chance! SOME of it is...but not all of it.

Stereotypes keep people from exploring the things in the world around them and they squash out diversity.

Agree?

Answer 2

First of all, people stereotype everything and everybody. Why? Because that's what people do. They discount and degrade anything they don't like. At least the uneducated, juvenile and simple-minded ones do. I don't condone it but like Run-DMC said, "It's Like That".
Secondly, you said it yourself, old school Hip-Hop (or at least most of it) rapped about the opposite of what most of today's Hip-Hop artists rap about. I think it's because they're following the ways of the world.
We have unWARranted war going on.
Greed just runs rampant.
Frivilous lawsuits are the new thing.
People (mainly Americans) don't want to EARN their livelihood any more. They want everything handed to them (Welfare, unemployment, the lottery, stock market, etc.).
People care more about LOOKING good than BEING good.
People judge others by their beliefs, thoughts, words and appearance instead of what truly counts, their (IN)ACTIONS.
Everyone's on some kind of drug (Prescription, 'illegal', alcohol, gasoline, etc.).
Nobody gives credit where credit is due. Instead, they suck the b@lls of the beautiful (which is something your BORN WITH or not), the wealthy (no matter how they got wealthy), the best sh!t talkers and entertainers rather than those who've really benefitted them (soldiers/veterans, scientists, medical professionals and teachers).
It's really a sad sad world we live in. People are the most destructive thing on this planet. Even more destructive than Mother Nature. And, she's a Mother F....r!

Answer 3

the old school rap was better because alot of it actually spoke about things of substance however you must admit that rap now days is pretty crappy and almost every rapper has a song or two about doing a "ho" etc... So I don't think its stereotyped. A stereotype is a assumption on someone or some group based on a few of them that is not true, sort of like saying all blacks are the same or Asians or whites or Hispanics etc.. that is unfair... but the majority of rappers out there just talk about money, cars and women. Its hard to find a rapper who can speak about positive subjects without cursing or degrading women. Not saying they are not out there, its just hard to find... Just my opinion

Answer 4

Rap is stereotyped just like every kind of music is. The people who are not into it will stereotype it. For instance, country music is all about losing your lover, losing your dog, cowboys, kids with cancer, etc. Rock music is all about drugs, sex, etc. and Rap doesn't escape from being stereotyped. It has nothing to do with race... for myself, I like a little bit of everything.... I don't really listen to the radio at all anymore.


I listen to New Age music. You should hear what people say when I tell them that!

Answer 5

Everyone's entitled to their own opinions about music. Some rock is just about drugs, suicide, and sex, but other songs can be quite meaningful. I guess the same goes for all genres of music.
Most of the time, the only rap people are exposed to is what they hear on the radio, so you can't blame them for not knowing that there are other forms of rap out there.
In all honesty, the only rap I hear is either degrading women, promoting drug use, or proposing violence on someone. Of course, I only hear what the radio plays.

Answer 6

No disrespect, I won't even try to say that I know how hiphop is different from rap.

I do try to categorize songs into one or the other, but I don't know the exact definition of either/or.

But hiphop/rap music is a form of art, like any other type of music.

It actually saved my life to discover this music. It is the only music with songs that I HAVEN'T grown tired of listening to the same songs.

Not trying to start arguments, but trying to make a point that:
-if rap is a type of speech, how do certain musicians fall into categories, and why do we categorize music?

For example, Linkin Park, has a type of speech that I would call "rap" in their music. They have also collaborated "collision course" with rapper/hiphop mogul H.O.V.A aka JayZ.
Is LP rap or rock or metal? (or crap, depending or opinion)

Then, CountryGrammarRapper Nelly did a song with country singer Tim Mcgraw(sp?).
With their song on a CD, what shelf would you find it on?
MixTapes? Rock, Country, Rap?

In the repetitive anti-rap discussions, they never explore the true meaning of hiphop or rap as art, and they ALWAYS mention the same artist in their quotes/examples.
(personal opinions on the statement of their "artistic ability")
Ludacris, Eminem, Snoop Dogg...

Well what do these anti-rap "experts" expect?
Ludacris=ludicrous. That's his job.

Eminem="the" white rapper. He wants to see what he can get away with in his career. He knows he's white, he raps about what he's gotten away with for being white, or whatever reason. He has claimed his fame THROUGH being an ***. What stick-up-the-*** WOULDN'T approve of him?

Snoop Dogg= Alright, when he names his songs/albums by sex.positions or smacking a b.up, arguing about his music being "offensive" is the same as stirring up a fight with a wall.
Same goes for Luda.

And when the people around me make comments about this area of music, I can't help but think judgmental thoughts.

Any of these names are all general example.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

This is the real question to everyone, cool dude. I love this difficult question.
I have been a metalhead for all of my life, but also i listen to every music that exist in this world including rap music. I do respect all the music that i ever heard. Music is the thing we should respect a lot, cause music is being made by artist with blood, guts, sweat, and heart. And also the rap music. And the matter of ppl nowadays they are so very very fanatic in their own music and they never respect other music. That's what happen right now, ppl have no respect to any music they don't like. They say this music is crap, that music is only sex talking, this music is rubbish etc. Ouch what happen to the listeners today!!!!! Can everyone respect the music, every music ??
In my old days, maybe in early 80's, i do listen to music, all music, including rap. I have a good friend who listen to this rap music, i listen to rap music together with him, and he is really spreading his music to me like a disease, then i know what can make rap music so beautful. I listen to beastie boys, digital underground, LL cool j, n.w.a, etc, and i feel so amazed with the music. This music strike every elements in this life through their amazing lyrics, i am very deep in love with their lyrics, very straight to the point, never tell any lies, just like a thunderbolt strike from the throat of the artists. In the times when i listen to rap music, the rap music is really in their hardest times, so i think all the rap artists in that old times are really really tough artists, they try to build a kingdom of rap music, when any other music strike them down, but they keep in their way to explode what is inside their heart with some blasting music and exploding lyrics.

So please everybody, respect any music. ok !!!

Answer 9

They do it because it's easier to put a black man down than to actually listen to him and build him up!
I am a rapper and I hate a hater!
Rock and Roll is fine, but there are too many songs with about 4 words. I left a Sheryl Crow concert because she was drunk on stage. That song Run, Baby, Run doesn't help my opinion of her. Two words! Repeated 60 times!
I was raised on Country music, so my lyrics are story oriented.
But my attitude has been compared to Tupac. So that is the best compliment EVER!
Rappers have "something to say". Some ppl aren't ready to hear it! My most recent song is about how bad we need to leave Iraq. That topic could be in any style music.

Answer 10

Rap is krap