Rap music has always been labeled as a disgrace to the music industry. Ever since IceCube, Eazy-E and Dr. Dre were rapping rap was known as a bad/illegal type of music. Now granted back then racism still existed and almost every rapper was black at that time, it is still though labeled as a bad type of music because, all people think rap is about having sex, doing drugs, crime, and gangs. Well it isn't, some songs, yes it is written just about that stuff, but if you truly listen to the song and read the lyrics there is a powerful message in a lot of the songs. Not to mention if you think rap is the only music that gives messages about drugs and sex you should listen to some of the pop music on the radio. It isn't just rap that is "bad" music, pop, country, and alternative music all send the same messages as some rap songs send.
Take the song Roses by the Chainsmokers, it is all about having sex and smoking weed in the back of an abandoned building. Now the rap song Apparently by JCole is about how JCole became a rapper and the way reason he is a rapper is because he followed his dreams even though he was told that he would never become one. Not to mention all the powerful messages in Eminem's songs, Rap isn't a bad type of music, it is just another genre of music, that millions of people enjoy. Rap tells a story, other music doesn't.
Take the song Roses by the Chainsmokers, it is all about having sex and smoking weed in the back of an abandoned building. Now the rap song Apparently by JCole is about how JCole became a rapper and the way reason he is a rapper is because he followed his dreams even though he was told that he would never become one. Not to mention all the powerful messages in Eminem's songs, Rap isn't a bad type of music, it is just another genre of music, that millions of people enjoy. Rap tells a story, other music doesn't.