Reality Rap and Its Censorship And Rules

By Farah Fan


The beginnings of reality rap are viewed to be based upon African tempos which were used as a kind of communication by the native peoples. The lyrical component of rap tunes has a repetitive chants and scats, along with call-and-response technique with the viewers. It has developed and obtained in reputation in the 1960's when a few revolutionary DJ's started to work block events in the Bronx. They would bring in large speakers, hook them up to a turntable and play two of the same record at the same time, repeating the same section of the vinyl over and over by scratching it. Other performers would chant and yell to the crowd.

In 1979, music companies documented rap for the very first time and gained popularity. In 1982, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five launched the very first well-known politically based rap. Grandmaster's song, The Message relates to life in the inner city and the stress of being around violence and drugs. Rap music and all other forms of media have their places in this world. While some may dispute strongly about whether certain kinds of music are helpful or even safe for society to witness, their arguments continue to be their personal opinions.

The true fight for free speech is situated not in eliminating for the right to hear what you agree with, but in fighting for the freedom of those with whom you disagree. When you take away the public's right to voice a varying opinion, through either their music, their writing, or their art you strike at the extremely heart of freedom for which people really should stand. Musicians, recording companies and fans are all concerned with the concern of music censorship. These people are pitted against the government officials and community businesses who are seeking to eliminate what is regarded as obscenity in popular music.

Problems occur in seeking an adequate meaning of obscenity as it relates to artistic works. It was decided that obscenity is a community concern and that it should be determined on the basis of local, instead of federal, standards. In order for a product to be obscene, it must be patently unpleasant and it also must appeal to prurient interests and lack serious creative merit. Controversies come up in seeking a definition for what constitutes artistic merit. Obviously, value in art is a very subjective thing. Some people will derive pleasure or insights from a work which others will find disgusting, disturbing or unattractive.

Reality rap and the topic of censorship is not something new. Lots of people in the record market took up arms against the legal censorship. Citing the Supreme Court decision that obscenity is defined by a lack of artistic merit, rap followers believed that it is hard to think that an album that almost 2 million people have bought, laughed with and danced to have no value as a imaginative work. Even though many people found it to be offensive, and many others considered its lyrics to be immature, there were obviously still many others who found some type of artistic value in it.




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