What's the Rap

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the responses were the same. A black seventeen year old male said, “Teach me things or tell me things about life.” A fifteen year old black female said, “Because it tells the truth about how us black people live being raised in the ghetto.” Rappers often talk about “the ghetto” or “the hood” and many times youth listening to the music can relate. Rap is definitely a good outlet for people going through the hard times discussed in rap songs, but gangster life should not be glorified. Rappers got out of that environment for a reason, and they should be encouraging their fans to do the same. Some rappers never even experience the things they rap about. 2Pac was never on death row, yet he still wrote a song about it.
Hip-hop tycoon, Russell Simmons, executive vice president of Warner Music, Kevin Liles, and the rapper Common have all agreed that “there is a problem” with many rap lyrics today, but rappers have a right to say what’s on their mind. In a discussion from Ed ...

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constant feature in the works of several artists. According to Terri Adams and Douglas Fuller, authors of “The Words Have Changed But the Ideology Remains the Same: Misogynistic Lyrics in Rap Music,” much of what is considered misogynistic rap usually has one or more of the following six themes: (a) derogatory statements about women in relation to sex; (b) statements involving violent actions toward women (c) references of women causing “trouble” for men; (d) characterization of women as “users” of men; (e) references of women being beneath men; and (f) references of women as usable beings. Although rap music has been on the open commercial market since the late 1970s, blatant misogyny in ...

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