What I learn from hip-hop is that it can help people can be hurt from people and they listen to hip-hop feel better about there life when they listen to music. Somrtimes when I listen to hip-hop and i'm mad at that to I will go to my room and put some music on ti coum me down when i'm at people.
I choose to write about this because I know more about hip-hop then my mom because she don't even now all the new raps and hip-hop people because she don't even watch that much TV it is on BET that is were i got my info from why I like hip-hop so much . Well now u know why i wrote about this one.
[Accordeing to Hip-Hop And Rap Lyrics Offer Positive Message, find out this info from my reseach] critices who contend that the lyrics of hip-hop and rap are violent and misogynistic frequent ly fail to see the positive messages many of the song deliver. yet, thanks to the magic of MTV, i became transfied by hip- hop at an earlyage- begging my mom for rides to the local recond store to pick releases by LL Cool J, Dr. Dre, and the Beastie Boys. In each album, found something familiar and relatable.
The fact that I-a petite, well-educated blond women- am rushing to defend rap music should at least make you think twice before condemning hip-hop as a genre that celebrates violence and sexism. Never once did listing to rap make me run out and buy a gun or sleep around. Rather, I was empowered by Salt-N-Pepa ttelling me "fight for your rights, stand up and be heard/ you're just as good as any man, believe that, words" and impressed by Tupac Shakur's willingness to rap unabashedly about his love for his mama.
When I moved to Los Angeles for college, joined other young intellectuals in classes on black pop culture and black literature, where I was often the only white student. I was inspired to study the lynching of [African American Teenager] Emmett Till after hearing him mentioned not by Bob Dylan [a white singer and songwriter]. but in song by rapper Kanye West. Which is why I've been dumbfounded by critics who have recently characterized rap as strictly the domain of materialists and misogynists.
Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hos/ read more, learn more, change the globe." Another one of the past year's best-selling rap arists,, T.I., seduces a women on the song "Why You Wanna" not by saying he wants to slp her behind, but by offering to "compliment you on your interllect and treat you wit respect. " Yes, the lyrics are punctuated by R-rated language and imagery, but there's a criitical difference between a song's profanity and its underlying message.
Who is emmitt Till?
ReplyDeletethis is a very controversial subject so thanks for diving into it. I don't really agree with alot of rap today because of the way they do talk about women and very dirogatory things really mekes me mad. But there is some rap that i very much enjoy so thanks. But what do YOU think about it?
ReplyDeleteI agree with both sides of this subject. Some rap lyrics can be sexist, while others not. But i do think as a whole that the music that is "main stream" today is a materialistic "I've got this car, and i have this money" kind of music. It is growing towards a less sexist type, but more about what kind of hype a person can bring up around them.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for posting this! I believe that whatever people listen to is their business. Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. People cannot take that from me. And in my LIFE i have the LIBERTY to listen to whatever i want because it helps my PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. I think its your choice if rap/hip-hop influences you. If it does, then that's your business.
ReplyDeleteI like hip hop and a lot of what you said is true, but there was some that I did not agree with
ReplyDeletei enjoy because i like hiphop too.
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