Rap Essay, Research Paper
The music rap only a decade and a haft old , finally notice by
the world in 1990 as real music had has its real downfall with
violence and corruption that surounds this new kind of music.
Its gotten so bad 1/20 people that listen to rap has
run into the law that been influence by listening to music.That
in order to stop all this violence that involves rap we must
learn to understand were their coming from why the offending
lyrics. 2 years ago a rapper named Ice Cube(O’shea Jackson)
sang at a concert where he had to take violence towards a korean
This started a riot after his concert,that resulted in a dozen of
burned korean shops. This was a big misunderstanding, so is
peoples view on rap music. What we must do is get to the heart
of the problem.
SEX, HOMICIDE, MONEY, these are some controversial things
rappers must rap about to get “Mad loot” (money). Its bad
enough we grew up in a era where the slightiest thing could upset
any one,like teaching masturbation in public schools or teaching
about the creation of the world in christian point of view. We,
the society are trying the screen everything, to protect are
children from being harm. But its harm we are inflecting on are
soon to be leaders of the world,for example tring to banned sex
education from the schools,screening the TV from harmful life
scaring scenes of nudity,music being edited because of the used
of the word “NIGGER” “BITCH” “JEW” “HOE” etc. Now rap singers are
just telling stories about drug dealing, getting beat up by
police officers,gangland slaying. Poeple don’t like them
,because they give people ideas or we just can’t admit how bad
society is becoming. Shaking are head looking the other way
saying this is not hapening right now. Stories that scare the
hell out of people. Rappers rap about situation that happen to
them in some point of their lives. Lots of rap music performers
grew up in poverty,were violence surrounded them,were violence
was the solution to the problem. Rap performer just sing about
songs with message that not all people live perfect lives with
perfect familys. Some rap singers are actually grateful for
getting off the streets , and doing something with their lives.
Some don’t even get off the streets, do you know that little kids
go around the corner and see the local dopeman with foreign
cars,women swarming all over them, and cash flooding from their
pocket,then the kid goes home and see their mother\father comming
home from work with a couple bucks in their hand. Now tell what
do you think the kid is going to decide what he’s going to do for
a living?. The problem isn’t about the language its about
understanding.
Rappers must also stay out of trouble so they would not scar they
reputation. Rap is already a controversial music, it just makes
it worst when haft them are out there commiting. Snoop Doggy
Dogg faces life in prison on conspiracy murder charges,the grammy
winning Snoop had he’s many run ins with the laws.March
1993,Tupac Shakur was arrested for assaulting
Menace II Society director Allen Hughes after an argument in
L.A.Seven months later, Shakur arrested accused of
shooting two off-duty officers in Atlanta.Police charge Shakur
and two members of his entourage with sexually assaulting a 20
year old woman. Police found a 9mm semi-automatic hand gun and
nearly haft gram of marijiuana, when they pull over 2pac for
speeding. Rappers out there are commiting crimes not realizing
that that lots of kids out their are loking up to them as role
models. Did you know that %20 percent of the population in North
America listen to rap, so thats a big number of people that rap
performmer are responsible for. Many rappers talk about streets
life, but lots of rapppers are out there trying to make the big
bucks. These rappers sing music about violence and corruption
because they know thats what sells around here. And big music
companys don’t really care what rappers singing about, as long it
brings big bucks to them. Presidential candidate Bob Dole, Rep-
Kan ,and other critics lauched a crusade to stop Time Warner from
selling “Violence and sex degrading rap music”. After that time
Warner sold %50 percent of Interscope to MCA for $200 million
dollars. William J.Benette said instead of banning rap, their
are trying stop major companys to stop distrubuting rap and other
things like movies and talk shows.
It was NWA then, and Dogg Pound now their music sang about
hate, and police brutality. When people listen to this kind of
music there would usually be violence that surrounded it. Ronald
Ray Howard, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1992
murder of officer Bill Davidson, said that a tape of Shakur’s
2PACALYPSE NOW was baring from his car stereo when he loaded his
9mm pistol and pulled the trigger. The music was so pump to the
max with gunshots and police sirens that he was so hyped up. At
the moment of the shooting, he was listening Tupac Shakur songs
Crooked Ass Nigga,which descibes a drug dealer on a rampage with
9mm pistol:
Comin” quickly up the streets is the punk ass police’s
The first one jumped out and said,”freeze”
I popped him in his knees, and I shouted,”Punk,please!”
Ice Cube provoked public outrage nearly two year ago with songs
that called for killing of a jewish business man (Jerry Heller
former NWA manager) and threatened arson against korean
grocers.Singing about violence towards white must stop,lots of
rappers have some sort of problems over white people. But what
they did’nt know that 64% percent hard core rap is purchased by
white people. Sgt. Ron Stallworth, a Salt lake City gang cop,
who paid little attention to rap music until he noticed
that”quote,unquote good clean white mormon kids” were begining to
emulate the black gang symbolism depicted in many recording.
Some critics say that rap music are not street wise
reporters,but cynical minstrels catering to a white audience’s
appetit for outlaw fantasies . What can we do about? I don’t
think we could do that much its up to them to explain what their
singing about. Maybe we can get more interviews on MTV so we
could learn more about rap singers and their music. But since we
live in Canadas its hard to bring rap performers on since Much
Music is dedicated to rock, and alternative music. We can even
bring them to schools to talk to kids about very confusing
subject in lives,like sex and gang violence. Lots of people look
up to rap performers, and when they see them take time to talk
to kids of about important subjets it would change their whole
views on sex,drugs, and violence.
In conclusion we should widen are knowledge on rap performers by
having more interviews with them instead of watching shows like
Beavis & Butthead. Don’t get me wrong Beavis & Butthead is a good
show but I think putting it on twice a day weakens are mentality
on thinking . And since we live in Canada , it would be even
harder to get stuff that focus on rap , since Muchmusic
dedicates to rock and alternative music which is totally
difference from are US brothers whice is dedicate to rap , dance
,R&B , and cool dating shows. Maybe be my next essay should be on
how come they don’t play that much rap, and R&B on Muchmusic.
Back on subject now , I think rappers in order to get supports
must obbey to law ,since we lived in a world today full of
controversial towards rap, this would do nothing to help the
problem.
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