I am a 63 year old woman, I don't understand why hip hop is so popular. It is mean music, degrading to women, and loaded with foul language. I have heard people say "well we live in the ghetto, that is what our lives are about". I just don't buy that. Are they saying there is no love, no sweetness, no decent women, anywhere in the ghetto? I realize life is hard there, but come on with the negative? Back in the early days of rythym and blues and early rock and roll, black entertainers were barely excepted yet their music remains alive today.
Please give me an intelligent answer.
2007-02-28 02:29:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
With kids it's more important that they look and act "cool" than to worry about the foul garbage they are feeding their minds. Parents today are more worried about being best buddies with their kids than about raising up respectful, good adults. Many parents give up and give in to the pressure of our immoral society. It's a hard upward battle and if you don't have a moral anchor, your going to get swept away by it. I feel bad for this generation. They don't know the peace and comfort that comes with morality. It was destroyed by the "free love" hippie generation of the 60s who are now trying to be parents. See what your generation created? It's sad.
2007-02-28 03:05:55 · answer #1 · answered by introubleguy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello maddam.Rap music was a way for the young in black inner
city neighborhoods to express what they were
feeling, seeing, and living,as an art.So "well we live in the ghetto, that is what our lives are about" is mostly true.Rap music wasn't created to be as mean as you know it.It were the newly emerging gangsta rappers that took the violent
subject of the genre to the extremes.And some singers used and still use rap music as a way to dissrespect their foes.From there the foul language.And about the part degrading to women,well,most of the ''women'' in the songs are hookers.Thats the reason for the lack of respect.Not all the Hip-Hop culture is bad,mean and offending.
2007-02-28 02:52:04 · answer #2 · answered by Dazetec G 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all, hope you consider this intelligent.
Just because they do those kind of lyrics, it doesn't really mean that everyone is mean and a criminal.
They're just trying to make a statement because most of them live in that reality.
I'm not a racist but I think it's a color issue because for centuries black people were exploited, put in ghetto's and had to turn to "the bad side" in order to survive.
With their music they're kind of saying it was this way.
However, we also see that the guys and girls who rap and hip-hop these tunes are the same ones who provide books and other types of support to help children coming out of bad environments and become respectable people.
Of course some are junkies or drunks or carry guns and really enjoy violence and crime but there are also rock stars with the same problems with the law and drugs and such.
It's not a music type issue, that's what I mean.
And the color issue I referred to earlier is a symptom of our narrow minds that is being surpassed each time we really understand a rap or hip-hop song.
Just have the patience to hear it and you'll see what I mean.
You don't have to like it, OK?
Peace!
2007-02-28 02:47:32 · answer #3 · answered by Andi Rolf 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It makes Mom and Dad crazy. Kids always need to get into things that shock their parents. Right now, hip hop is the officially sanctioned form of "rebellion" that everyone is following.
2007-02-28 02:38:35 · answer #4 · answered by Film Jedi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I like hip hop for the beat, and there is a lot of love involved in the words. Yes it is also sad, but what about COUNTRY SINGERS have you listened to their sad songs of complications!
Music is better than TV!!!
2007-02-28 02:33:01 · answer #5 · answered by DrPepper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
itz all a bunch of junk and it only creats a new generation who is worse then the one before... i'm only 23 and i hate the fact that i can turn around without hiphop or rap there
2007-02-28 02:37:57 · answer #6 · answered by Annie: Mommy to Sid and Liz 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm sure you ain't gonna get any intelligent answers on this!
2007-02-28 02:32:57 · answer #7 · answered by Dream 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
why give an intelligent answer for a stupid question...some like rap others dont k...get over it
2007-02-28 02:33:08 · answer #8 · answered by Ashley 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think its the sexuality. Kids like it cause Sex is taboo !
2007-02-28 02:32:13 · answer #9 · answered by lisalau 5 · 6⤊ 1⤋