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Keuka College Music History Of Rap Music
Rap music has been around in the mainstream media since the late 1980's. It has one of the most popular forms of music for young people to listen too. Rap music was created by a mostly African American population and was used to describe the hardships that many people were enduring. Rappers in the late 1980's such as the group NWA wrote songs about thier upbringing in the city of compton and from this groups success came other well know rappers such as Tupac and Snoop Dogg. With the introduction of these artist to the public Rap grew from a music that was looked down apon to a music that had world wide attention.

In the late 1990's new rappers such as Eminem, 50 Cent, and Lloyd Banks burst into rap culture. Theses new rappers provided a new sound that people every where loved and records were flying off the shelves. These new rappers also took on many political and social issues that the rest of the American people were talking about. In Eminems song Mosh he talks about how president George Bush should take our soilders out of the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. Eminem was not the first rapper to attack a social issue, NWA rapped about the police brutality in the city that they had grown up in.

Rap music is my favorit music because it has a very raw sound to it. The people that are creating this music are speeking about real issues and events that happened to them but not in a normal way. They use creative lirics and beats to convay a message that people can relate too and think about. This music also has very tough sound too it because it was created by very tough people that I look up too and admire. Unfortunatly most new rap music has gotten away from telling that story about real things that happen and is more about just having good beats, this bothers me because the perseption of the music is completely wrong and I choose not to listen to most new rap.

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