Rap is a disgrace? Agree or disagree?

Question

If you listen closely to the rap lyrics, the rappers talk about livin in poverty and it gets in these young children's mind that they must live in poverty to become the "big dawgs". Also these people rap about being "Thugs" and raping women and using the N-Word. Now Rapping is pushing the Civil Rights stuff back many years except the rappers are in the place where the whites were. I am not being racist but blacks have been committing more and more hate crimes towards whites ever since this type of trash became popular. It tells young children to not get an education and instead rule a gang. What kind of blasphemy is this? Martin Luther King Jr. is rolling in his grave for this along with the other African Americans that fought for African Americans to go to schools and be great people. This is degrading to a proud race. Martin Luther King did not fight for Civil Rights only so African Americans can own gangs and riot in our streets. Its a sad era in the African American history book!

Rap is more of a disgrace than Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin!!!


I know I will get a lot of heat and hate mail for this comment so if you want to send hate mail to me, I will expect it!!!

Answer 1

" RAP is CRAP "

Answer 2

I've been listening to rap since I can remember, and it hasn't corrupted me in any way. I'm attending a university and I think its people who believe that kids can be so easily brainwashed are the problem. Rap doesn't turn kids to gangs. People who are born in these situations just find comfort in the words of rappers, even if they aren't true. Also, we don't believe everything they tell us, we know that some of them are just trying to act hard and rap about the hood, when they now have mansions and millions of dollars. Another thing, mainstream rap has been seriously toned down. Nothing nowadays compares to old skool rap. That was when rap was really controversial. No one today can even touch 2pac, because no can be as great as he was. So stop complaining about how rap has corrupted the youth when all that gets played on the radio nowadays are kiddie versions of what real rap is supposed to be. Be thankful that rap artists are abandoning their roots while I mourn.

Answer 3

Here goes, from a white girl... Every musical genre has its standouts. When Elvis started making music parents were heated that their teenagers would listen to that "trash" about booty shaking and "inappropriate" love songs. The Beatles were once considered "bad influences" who sang about drugs and gasp, unsupervised dates. Modern "rock" has quite a few songs about drugs, suicide, rape, abortion, etc. However, since rap is associated with an economically and socially subjugated group, we examine it more closely and find more faults than with other musical genres. I have heard many rap songs which advocate a need for African Americans to rise up and seek out education. The "infamous" Tupac himself rapped about the need for men to respect and value women. What people really hear in rap songs is a reflection of the socioeconomic status of African Americans in America today. Many people misperceive that these songs advocate living in the ghetto and running with gangs when, in reality, they simply sing about a social reality which has become a widespread phenomena. Rap was conceived of as a tool to empower the Black community. Some artists abuse that power, but many take that opportunity to get the message out about the dire state of American racial inequality. I know I might get heat for this answer, but people should closely examine where they get the idea that rap is "bad" from. At one time, we (white people) thought it was great to own slaves. We got this idea from society. Hence, when people don't take the time to closely examine a wide variety of rap songs, they get the idea that rap is "bad" from society as well.
By perpetuating the notion that a musical genre associated with a currently, yes still, oppressed class, we perpetuate invisible institutionalized racism. Just because you don't go out and tell a Black person he is inferior to his face does not mean the school system, employers, and the judicial system are fair or unbiased. There is plenty of sociological evidence and many studies which support the idea that there is still a lot of institutionalized racism, but I will stop for now.

And Keaton is my only Batman.

Answer 4

I do not agree! When I was growing up heavy metal was the big thing. We were told we would end up drug addicted Satan worshipers but it did not happen.

Young people need a form of music that is rebellious. Something that makes grownups uncomfortable; it has always been this way. Our grandparents parents thought Frank Sinatra was the epitome of evil, it seems ridiculous now.

I think the worst thing rap does is make young black men look ridiculous. The way they portray themselves seems to perpetuate stereotypes. However; I am a Republican; I understand that these rappers are well paid, nothing wrong with a good bottom line.

Answer 5

disagree. some of the songs you can dance to like techno beats and when they remix the songs too. i do agree that some of the songs are way out of line and you really have to ask "wtf". rapping is the 'in' thing right now and most people can identify with the poverty because some of these rappers come from such backgrounds. and when their music turns dirty, their listeners just follow. i don't approve of then 'n' word and today its use like the f- word and other cursing words, so casually and without thought. and if its questioned, people bring up the freedom of speech, but what about morals? i can understand where you're coming from, but every race is different and have its stereotypes.

Answer 6

I agree. The problem is that since nobody would take a white/Asian/etc. rapper seriously, (with very, very few exceptions) black rappers tend to dominate the music industry. This contributes to the negative stereotype black people have.
(I'm not being racist. Every race I can think of has at least one negative stereotype.)
There are many talented blacks who write great music, but their songs are hard to see behind the growing number of trashy rap albums.

I find most of the "popular" songs disgusting. For example, I can't stand "Fergalicious". I am thirteen. Children my age should strive to hold onto their innocence. I don't see why everyone is crazy about her music.

1) She wears too much makeup.

2) She can't spell "tasty".

3) She is too egotistical for her own good. All of her songs are about herself.

4) She contradicts herself. "I ain't easy, I ain't sleezy."
Then, of course, the camera focuses on a shot of her dancing in a cake in a bikini.

5) Her songs have no soul. They are all pretentions, disgusting, mindless lyrics.

At least Gwen can spell simple words well.

Answer 7

Not really a disgrace. I think it's just simplistic noise. It takes music and rhythms others have done and rearranges them. It takes some creativity, but no real genius.

The real disgrace is letting racists like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson speak for them.

Answer 8

I don't know if blacks have been committing more crimes or at whites more since a lt of whites own guns. But, what about violent movies and video games. What about the recruitment of youths into the Armies of the world and conditioning them to kill without caring. That's what the U.S Army does to new recruits. They teach them to be trigger happy morons who shot at anything that pops up.
Gangster Rap is not helpfull either. But, it's just a fraction of the problem.

Answer 9

Rap is not a disgrage!!! Let us not turn moral against them. They have a right to play and listen and express themselves. Instead of saying it is a disgrace, listen to more rap songs. Listen to Chuckie Akenz- Find the Peace and Goodbye, he has lots of songs that have good morals in them.
After centuries of hardship, they deserve a lot more than what you are bestowing upon them. Peace man.!!!

Answer 10

agree . when words are derogatory in any thing it interferes with natual order of things.
children growing up don.t need any more fear than already imposed ,not to mention me or the general public.
it's dificult enough to look forword to goals without having to look away from.
these people seem to have no mind. i'll go as far to say good over evil.their good though is not.
all about the money.

Answer 11

Some is some isn't.
Most underground rap groups are excellent and focus mainly on opinions of current events,politics, and life experiance.