Rap - the Music of the Tough Guys

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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 surrounds

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 happening

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 motherfather coming

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 committing

. 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