What is Rap in media?

          What even is Rap nowadays? At one point it had a true meaning and now most are based on sex, money, and drugs. If you go on any large social media account you can see teens or adults trying to promote their music through the comment section. The thing is, no one is really going to care about the music if it is exactly the same as every other artist. Most artists come in with a "gangster" attitude when they most likely haven't had a background that isn't anywhere close to what those backgrounds used to be like, they just try to fit in with everyone else.

          In the 90's through the 2000's rap had a meaning behind it. It had a message that you had to listen to listen to so you could understand the music. For instance, Today Was A Good Day by: Ice Cube talks about enjoying a good positive day and there is something new about his day in each portion of the song, not like sex, drugs, guns, sex, drugs, guns, sex, drugs, guns, that we see today is most rap. This message can either out today's youth down a positive path because they know what to stay away from or it can put them down a bad path that might leave them corrupt at some point in time. It is so easy to get your hands on crude music because it can be found on any platform which leaves it available to get to even the younger generations of kids.

          This ideology of music will remain with us for while. As media grows, the output of this music will increase because more and more people will by influenced by it. It will be interesting to see if rap goes back to the 90s style like clothing has been doing through its promotion through media and media accounts.