Rap Music, EVIL??

By Michael
Some people think rap music is evil, why? Do they mean to say that the rappers are evil? or they just mean to say that they ‘hate the game not the player’?

I strongly disagree to that notion of rap music being evil. It is just artists ‘spiting on the mic’. They talk sense just like any other kind of music artists. Rap music does not hesitate to bring out to the audience the hidden meanings of words in the worlds. But to some people, the moment one starts to listen to rap music, the more susceptible they are to a lifestyle of crime and deviance. Nick Noveli differs to this approach, he says that rap music is just a way of expressing one’s feelings, because everyone has something different to say, so are the ways of expressing the differences.

It is a fact however that rappers like T.I have been convicted plenty of times for serious crimes, therefore one can deduce from such facts that rap music is evil. On the contrary to conclude that rap music is evil is an overstatement; this is so because there are also genres like Gospel Rap or Holy Hip Hop. There are some artists like KJ52 and John Cook. What they sing is gospel in content and the medium they use is Rap which explains that rap is not evil, but maybe what one does after listening to it may be evil. Rap music has also been used to educate the people on what legends like Martin Luther King said.

So pay attention to the words, maybe forget the rhythm but Rap is not Evil!!