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The De-Evolution of Rap Music
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The De-Evolution of Rap Music
South Bronx 1970's
- Produced and consumed within the Black and Latino communities
- Content focused mostly on love, relationships, and their heritage
- Began to transition to encompass political and social issues
- Heaviest social agenda of any popular music since Folk music in the 1960's
The Change Begins
- Began as a way to convey political and social issues
- Transformed to encompass gang violence, sex, drugs, and so on
- Violence
- Juicy by The Notorious B.I.G. vs. "Ride Out" by Antwain Steward
- Drugs
- "Believe It" by Meek Mill and "Trap Star" by Jeezy
- Sexual discrimination
- "Keep Ya Head Up" by Tupac vs. "Or Nah" Ty Dolla $ign, The Weekend, and Wiz Khalifa
Why we need to be worried about this?
National Growth in the 1980's
- Gained popularity and found commercial success
- Reached audiences beyond America's black ghettos and urban centers
- An alternative form of rap music developed called gangsta rap
- Rhyme Pays 1987 by Ice T
- Straight Outta Compton 1988 by N.W.A.
- Prompted FBI protest due to obsence song titles
- Centralized around urban realities avoided by pop music and earlier rap music
The music and subculture's shift away from its historical, political, and social roots toward a genre that promotes and glorifies violence, drugs and sexual discrimination poses a devastating threat to young generations and popular perception.
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