Rap Music

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This paper explains that the problem with rap music is that it perpetuates the worst of both black and white America by divorcing itself from its musical roots and presenting America in a negative light. The author believes that rap music is impure at its core because the more rappers thrive in the multinational market, which has left so much of their audience behind, the richer they get and are farther removed from the "boyz in the 'hood". The paper concludes that rap music does nothing to heal a world full of woe; whereas, both of its predecessors in musical genres, gospel and rhythm and blues, do this.

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"The situations that give rise to rap music are not new; there is nothing new about young black men feeling (and arguably being, in large part) disenfranchised from the mainstream society of either culture, black or white. What is new, in fact, is not the condition of the culture, but the reaction of the musician. While music before rap was meant to carry people through a bad time and out the other side, rap seems to be meant to carry people deeper and deeper into hopelessness and despair."

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