Is Rap music/culture bad for Black people?

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I wrote an essay in college on rap music , see if u like it -

Gangster rap music -

I like gangster rap music and still do but I see it as a form of brainwashing currently and think what people have to take into account , is that it's still a majority white audience who lives in the suburbs - young, white people who are into rebelling against their parents who buy this stuff and think it's just a kick , it's fun anotherwords . It's just a way of expressing their anti-authoritarianism . However these kids never lived in the ghetto , never experienced real authoritarianism and I feel the music really losses its purpose in that sense .

On the other hand black kids listen and think " Oh , that's what it means to be black . That's how you make money . That's how you become rich and famous and get on TV , get music videos and live in mansion . And that's how you either get the boys or the girls . " The girls think they have to be half-naked and spinning around like they're on meth in order to get any attention . It really corrupts people and I think it adds to some serious sociological problems , like the high out-of-wedlock birth rate because of this hypersexual imagery that then the kids adapt to some kind of reality . I mean , it's inauthentic . It's not in keeping with great black traditions of struggle and excellence , from Willie Mays to Aretha Franklin but even in terms of academics , going back to people like Charles Drew or Ben Carson who is a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins University. That stuff all of a sudden, is pushed aside . That's treated as , " You're a nerd , you're acting white . " By the black community , if you try to be excellent and rise yourself up realistically and I find it absurd .
 
I think it is.
It pushes rampant consumerism/materialism
It teaches mysoginy.
It praises/glorifies criminal and deviant behavior
It is often racist
Lil Wayne is a case in point

Of course not EVERY rap "artist" does these things, but on average they do.

LL Cool J and Doug E Fresh talked about shoes and clothes. "Bling Bling" anyone? How about "Cop Killa" or anything by X-Clan? How about Rick Ro$$ and Clipse? How about the racist rants of Dead Prez?
The things I mentioned above are bad for Whites too.
 
Hey Jim.

Why don't you tell me what rap artists you listen too before you start judging the whole genre as a whole sugar nuts?

EDIT: Are you black guy who's hating on your own genre or just some kind of trailer trash?
 
How is rap even considered music?? No one sings, no one is playing instruments
 
No. It is the way that it is promoted by non black record companies and TV owners that makes it seem so.There are rappers who do EVERYTHING, you just listed, we can't deny that (except maybe the Dead Prez Quote, they refer to the white man as u just refered to rap, they refer to the racist, capitalists, and power hungry people, my white friend met dead prez and said that they had a full on conversation about how to incorperate white communities into the aid of the struggle) now the media chose to exploit that, and so if you do that you get rich and famous. Now there is TONS of rap that has uplifting, mental stimulating, deep, messages, that will do nothing but better anyone as a person, they are broke as sh!t. So now, kids growing up, want to be that thug, because hes not in the ghetto like them, hes rich and happy. So the media continues to exploit that, making that the only aspirations for a black kid to have. And it comes to a point where you getting rich means more than being a conscious rapper. So rap culture isn't bad for us. The way but the way corporate america feeds it to the youth, is, and makes it so. The way it is being portrayed could be called as you claim 'bad' yes i agree there. But rap culture as a whole, is far from it.
 
Of coarse not Fu. What are you talking about?! you can hear these things in all music genres.

@ Kenneth. First off Fukc you. And second say that to some black people in real life dawg. Don't be a little pvssy and say it over the Internet
 
uhh
no
i love it all my life
not all rap music is bad
i kno a country song talking about asz and i know these bad metal songs that are so dam pitiful
and we jus grew up with it
chill dam
 
No. What you listed does apply to some rap music but not all. Slavery was bad for Black people.
 
Maybe you don't understand the culture and the meaning of rap music. There are a lot of white people in a rap concert or blasting rap music in their car, home, or Ipod,. They even have white rappers. Also, a lot of white people dressing up hip hop fashion too. So analyze the stuff first before saying things like that.
 
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