What is hip hop and how does it effect the world? In Good ways and in Bad.?
349719
I think that hip hop has both good and bad qualities.\n\nI dig the fact that most hip hop artists want to show where they came from; poverty, crime, etc.  We typically don't see things of that nature in the news - unless they are reporting crime in the area.  \n\nThe bad aspect is that most male hip hop artists, degrade women as strippers, hoes, or b itches.  I don 't dig the idea of rapping about 26" rims, gold chains, and drugs.
1115104
Rap in general. All they "rap" about is sex, drugs, cars, gangs, and fights. None of them actually write songs with meanings, just things little tween kids want to be or do when they grow up. Music is important and special and shouldn't be treated like shit to telling people how to smack their bitch up or something stupid like that.
326042
The history and influence of music on society; how music has changed over the years and why; how music has influenced society - everything from clothes to slang.\n\nCompare and contrast a movie and book.\n\nSlang words - how each generation has their own language, how it came about, etc.
570650
people rap about what they know. Sum of these rappers grew up ether dealing drugs, and seeing it in there community.
785917
Which people are you referring to? I only know like 4 people who really like rap. It annoys the rest of us.
161718
Like all popular music, it has had good and bad effects.  I worry that too much of it glorifies casual sex and wealth.  But I also know that there are some talented people creating really innovative music.  And there is plenty of truth-telling and uplifting messages, if you look hard enough.\n\nBut those of you who are old enough to flash back 40 years and remember what people were saying about The Beatles and The Rolling Stones should know this is just the same story with a different soundtrack.
461865
Pretty much all main stream hip hop  ...ughh!!!  but If I had to pick one..  that song called laffy taffy...  just plain stupid...  =)
76678
It's a matter of supply and demand. If the public was sophisticated enough to demand quality hip-hop, the record companies would respond to that. But they aren't, so they don't.  :-)
918136
Try look up Eminem and 50 Cent lyrics.\n\nWhat Habin8or said was completely unacceptable! I do know everyone is entitled to their own opinions but recently I have been seeing a lot of people being unfair to the rap and hip-hop genre. People are going around talking like the music is pure shit and it's not! Rap and hip-hop is just another expression of feelings and actions through music.
543467
I think the majority of modern rappers are a bad influence. they rap about mostly sex, drugs and violence. and society scratches their heads as to why teens are attracted to all of that.
774162
Maybe you should quote some hip hop that's definitely not evil... like Dear Mama by TuPac.  Then you can talk about family in hip hop by talking about this TuPac song and the Eminem songs to his daughters and other stuff like that... then you could talk about how in the 90s, hip hop was usually about gangs, but it was not meant to get people to join gangs, but really to show them what life on the streets is like... There are tons of ideas out there - just pick a couple themes and use them, or your speech will probably end up way too long.  I've listed a couple websites below, check them out for more help:
542504
Yes. Rap is the crap you see on MTV. Hip hop is actually good music. I hardly listen to it, but my boyfriend does, and the stuff he plays isn't too bad. Rap is music where they sing about bitches and hoes, pimpin', riding on 24's, bling bling, drinking, smoking, etc. Hip hop though actually goes in detail about life, and things that really matter.
49271
Hip Hop culture rules!  Rap is one aspect of this diverse and highly creative movement, I think it is fantastic and great positive release for many youth in america and around the world.
608672
rap music \n \n \nor hip-hop, genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic performers in New York City, at first associated with an athletic style of dancing, known as breakdancing. The word rap, derived from a 1960s slang word for conversation, generally consists of chanted, often improvised, street poetry accompanied by a montage of well-known recordings, usually disco or funk. Detractors have criticized most rap music as a boastful promotion of violence and misogyny; others have admired it as an inventive manipulation of cultural idioms and credit many rappers with an acute social and political awareness. Early rap groups included Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, and the Beastie Boys. Rap has influenced many forms of popular culture, particularly film, and has been increasingly incorporated into pop music. Some influential rap performers include Public Enemy, NWA, Run-DMC, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, and Queen Latifah.\n\nSee M. Costello and D. F. Wallace, Signifying Rappers (1990); G. Nelson, Hip Hop America (1998).
433012
No. I think it can touch people and people can identify with music, but it won't change the way you perceive things. I think people use music and artists as their scapegoat because they don't want to admit that some people are just bad people to begin with. Eminem said it best when he said the things he writes about and sings about aren't anything he takes seriously, he's just expressing himself. It would take a real sick f*ck to take a song literally!!
591314
I think changes in music affect society.
895976
Because back in the Grandmaster Flash days and then in the Beastie boys days it was all about hip hop music.  Now it's all about bling and money not the meaning of rap and hip hop.  It is really ashame.