How rap music is destroying our future 34 Articles

by Pat Boardman

Rap Music is a contradiction in terms. Classifying Rap and Hip-Hop under the category of music is stretching the definition most generously and it's unfair to people with talent who can actually play an instrument or sing....read more

by Morgan Johnson

Rap music or Hip Hop has proven itself to be a social poison of the most virulent kind. It puts bars in places where there were none before. It puts artificial limits on unlimited potential. It succeeded where five gene...read more

by Rockstar

I will be honest rap music is not one of my favorite types of music but it sure has a great beat! Now there is a problem good beats equal lots of listeners because why...kids like loud thumping banging music. Rap music wou...read more

by David Huppatz

Hip-Hop artists are talented in their own genre but to classify them as quality singers or musicians would be an over-statement. To rap you don't need good melodies, vocal range or tone. You need to have a catchy tune to...read more

by James Spiller

When I need to take a time out to think, when I need to escape this world for an hour, I turn off all the lights, slip on some headphones, close my eyes, turn up the volume, and allow hip-hop's soul and rhythm to float thr...read more

by Inga Ambrosia

Music comes with an energy. Lyrics in music are loaded with either positive or negative energy. Rap music, unfortunately, is loaded with negative words that incite negative emotions. No matter what the subject is, if ce...read more

by Tera Red

I would like to refute this statement. Rap music is NOT destroying our future as a society. If one knows the history of the music then they would know that it has helped build this great country we live in. Although Rap...read more

by Queene Faith Hudson

The Boiling Point (Rap At Its Worst) Turntables, baselines, beats, scratching, EMcing and chanting anthems like, "Wave your hands in the air and wave'em like you just don't care!" (DJ Kool Herc and the Herculoids) gave...read more

by Leonard Brown

I truly believe that the belief that Rap music is destroying our future is a rudimentary way of looking at music that is out dated. Every decade and generation in American society as they come and go from what is deemed "p...read more

by Frank Barksdale

Rap musicis destroying our future, and I've got the only real salvation for it right here......... Don't listen to it! now before people start bashing this statement here and this one alone, let me finish my article. As a ...read more

by Brent Kelly

Rappers beware: this article may make you cry, or it might make you so pissed you'll have to go and 'smack your bitch up'. That is if you have a 'bitch' that didn't leave you already because you kept smoking all of her stu...read more

by Scott Loken

Rap music is not destroying our future... but the misconception that people put towards the most advertised rap music IS creating enslaved minds of those that may have stood up in the past but are so caught up in "keepin' ...read more

by Erica Enriquez

As a child of the 80s, I grew up always knowing OF rap. I was not born in the country rap originated, and I don't claim to be part of the culture that developed rap, but I can say this. I was 10 years old the first time ...read more

by Alicia Kaye

Bass shaking the house at two in the morning, lyrics, that could wake the dead flying in your bedroom door, and your baby sister trying to "drop it like its hot". Is this what has become of our future, our cul...read more

by Roger Pattison

The story is no different. It is the story of blues, New Orleans Jazz, Jitterbug, Be-Bop, Rhythm and Blues, Rock 'n' Roll, Motown, the Liverpool Sound, Heavy metal, Prog Rock, Punk, Hip-hop. After that, the story seems t...read more

by Harry Windsor

Rap music does not have the power to destroy much. My only problem with it at the moment is that it is not very good. I do not think it encourages violence any more or less than a most of pop. culture (movies, video games,...read more

by Ebony Ishmon

I would equate Rap music today to the boyfriend or girlfriend that you fell in love with, and they could do no wrong in your eyes. Everything they did was so exciting and inspiring, and you couldn't wait until the next ti...read more

by Mizchief

AWWW...Rap music! The drum to which my heart beats! I eat, sleep, and breathe rap music. I am a rap artist myself. I grew up listening to it so its no wonder that I spend my days in studios, making beats on a Roland keyboa...read more

by Erika Jones

I personally do now feel my future is being ruined, but for those of you who do feel this way can't you come up with something a little more solid? We blame weather man for the drought, the mail man for the bills, the car...read more

by Laura

When I was younger, I thought that rap music was 'cool' all my friends listened to it and it seemed to be at the time if you didn't listen to rap then you would not be able to join in with your peers conversations. You wou...read more