The modern hip-hop/rap genre has gotten a lot of criticism throughout the years. From excellent to detestable, it has been recognized as a genre with two sides.There's one side that believes that the genre generates positive messages to it's youth and there is the other side which believes the genre provides negative messages within their song lyrics to the same audience.
In my opinion, I feel that the language of this genre is misunderstood because there are many speculations about what the lyrics of the song (it's language) actually mean or tell the audience/listeners. The language of the Hip-Hop/Rap Culture is important to me and the people inside the culture because language is the way in which the majority of the communication is delivered to the people inside the culture and to the people outside the culture on a major scale. The only difference is some people choose not to take part in this culture, while others (me) join in and absorb all the communication given through the listening of the language. Without there being a language in Modern Hip-Hop/Rap Culture, the messages that the Modern Hip-Hop/Rap genre is trying to convey wouldn't be addressed clearly towards the members of the culture and towards the people outside of the culture. This is the reason why the Modern Hip-Hop/Rap Culture is so significant to everyone listening to the genre because there can be a lot of debate between the communication in this music genre through language.
The misconceptions which I believe this genre has, to the people outside of the culture listening to its language is they believe this culture ONLY provides negative messages towards its listeners and the youth. They believe the language also encourages it's followers and listeners to do mischievous activities like get money by selling drugs and consume them too. I personally know that within the Modern Hip-Hop/Rap Culture, there are minor groups and artists within this culture/genre that their messages are very dull and negative which affects the listener's lives in a wicked way.
However, I also know that there are other artists who actually provide positive and impactful messages within their communication through the use of language in their music. Once everyone understands the language in the Modern Hip-Hop/Rap Culture, then communication between one another (despite not being in the same culture) would be easier to comprehend which would allow us to understand one another and ourselves better.
Hi Rodrigo,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the misconception of Hip-Hop. The culture is meant to defy the norms that were set during that time (1960-1970). But, Hip-Hop presently,(a minority of songs) does give out negative images in some form, and their popularity in pop culture makes people develop their misconceptions on the culture. But they are only talking about their experiences in their life, because that's what Hip-Hop is, self expression...
P.S. Biggie x Flume is not gold.