Reality Rap and the Hatred It Produces

By Farah Fan


Reality rap is a sub-genre of hip hop tunes, and it is an instrument employed by people to tell a story or to captivate an audience. Artists and composers put their thoughts and feelings into their music. Music is extremely effective because the beat is so appealing and the lyrics can readily relate to. Now some types of music can have you feeling like going out and hanging out the night away. No matter what type of music you listen to it affects your mindset, your personality, and it even impacts the world around you. Rap music might have a bad impact on you and your society. Once you start listening to these songs you begin to wish to be like these rappers.

Rap is about history, individuality and the future. Gangster rap songs originated in mid-1970 in south Bronx of New York City. It is a cross-culture product. Rapping says poems to the beat of music it was initially called emceeing. It attracts its roots from the Jamaican art form known as toasting. Reality rap is not simply rapping; it is also DJing, break dancing and graffiti art. Detractors criticize most rap music as a boastful advertising of violence; others appreciate rap as an inventive treatment of cultural idioms and credit many rappers with an intense social and political consciousness.

Rapper and DJs disseminated their work by copying it on tape dubbing products and actively playing it on powerful, portable "ghetto blasters." Break dancers used their health to mimic transformers and other futuristic robots in symbolic street battles. Although graffiti as a social movement first came out in New York during the late 1960s, it was not until almost a decade later that it developed elaborate styles and widespread attention. By the mid 70s, graffiti took on new focus and complexity. It wasn't the easy tagging designs like the past.

The issue of whether or not hip hop music plays a role in violent crime is a continual discussion. Dennis R. Martin, president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, theorizes that since music has the ability both to calm the ravage beast and to stir violent feelings, then rising racial stress and violence can be attributed to rap music's advertising of vile, deviant, and sociopathic habits. Criminologist Mark S. Hamm and Jeff Ferrell reject Martin's analysis of the relationship between music and violence, charging that theory is based on racial discrimination and ignorance of both music and cultural forces.

Reality rap may be criticized and disputed over for its image sexual content material, violent imagery and misogyny. Not only is the music violent but the rappers way of life also. Not all artists have run-ins with the law, but the ones that do are very well identified like Tupac Shakur, who was murdered a couple of years back, has had many run-ins with the law. Martin believes that lyrical references strong enough might take over the depths of the mind causing people to act in ways they otherwise wouldn't. The vocals in many songs contain violent and very revealing words that always discuss killing someone along with sounds of gunshots in the shadows.




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