Rap should not be considered art or music, and the "rappers" should not be considered
artists!
Resolved: Rap should not be considered art or music, and the "rappers" should not be considered artists! Clarification: What
I am trying to state is that Rap should not be categorized as music or art and the "rappers" should not be categorized as artists. Rules: 1. Be respectful,
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section or in your argument. 4. Do your best and Enjoy! Argument: As Pro I am against
rappers being considered artists and their so called music "rap" should not be considered
art or music. To begin I will define rap: Slang . blame or punishment, especially
for a crime. Slang . a criminal charge: a murder rap. (http://dictionary.reference.com...)
So as you can see the word rap has a lot to do with crime and punishment and even
murder, so why should this so called music made by "rappers" have such a word as this
in there? It is also easy to see why the "rap music" has such things as gang violence,
drug$, $ex, alcohol, and pretty much every curse word imagined including not so appropriate
nicknames for the female gender and also the now popular and inappropriate word for
dark-skinned people (I believe everyone knows what I refer too) are uttered constantly.
Here is a piece of the lyrics for one of these "rap" songs: Lil Wayne's She Will I
tell her now gon' pop that pu$$y for a real n!gga I already know that life is deep, but I still
dig her N!ggas is jealous, but really I could care less I'm in Hell's Kitchen with
an apron and a hairnet Devil on my shoulder, the Lord as my witness So on my Libra
scale, I'm weighing sins and forgiveness What goes around comes around like a hula
hoop Karma is a b!tch? Well just make sure that b!tch is beautiful Life on the edge,
I'm dangling my feet I tried to pay attention but attention paid me Haters can't see
me: nose-bleed seats And today I went shopping and talk is still cheap I rock to the
beat of my drum set I been at the top for a while and I ain't jump yet But I'm Ray
Charles to the bull$hit Now jump up on that d!ck and do a full split! You can see
the sexual sense of this song in just the first verse. The first line and last line
are extraordinarily dirty as you can see, "pop that pu$$y for a real n!gga" and "now
jump on that d!ck and do a full split". Do we really want to consider this art and music for the children of our nation to freely listen to as they wish? This song
is dirty and that is only the first verse as i said before. There are plenty more
verses to this song that i wouldnt even consider reading or even glancing at. The
teens and other kids around me in schools listen to this "music" 24/7 and they act
like they are going to go join a gang as soon as they are out of high school. some
of them dont even think about going to college. The generation i now live in is'nt
as respectable as it should have been. todays influences are strong on these kids,
and so far good influences have been lacking. Rap is a bad influence and todays kids
have been raised to it. The mentioning of gang's being all that and violence being
an everyday thing it is no wonder gang violence has increased dramatically. Rap could
even be considered the gangs new recruiter. Here are some statistics of gang violence
in 2011: 1.Approximately 772,500 people in the United States belong to gangs. This
number tends to grow every year, especially in those cities that have more than 25,000
people living in them. Some statistics have shown that there was an 8% drop between
1999 and 2000 but overall gang violence continues to grow. 2.In Los Angeles 59% of
all homicides are gang related. This is true of 53% of all homicides in Chicago. Last
year, there were 698 gang related homicides in just these two cities alone. In 130
other cities that have a population of at least 100,000 people there were only 637
homicides.3.More than 24,500 gangs are currently active within the United States.
This is a 5% decrease in the number of gangs that were in existence in 1999. However,
cities who have a population of more than 25,000 people have reported a small increase
in the number of gangs that are causing gang violence within their cities. 4.Forty-five
percent of cities that have a population of at least 25,000 people have seen an increase
in gang violence over the past two years. In cities with a population of between 50,000
and 99,999 people, there has been a 37% increase in gang violence. Those cities with
a population of 100,000 people have reported a 69% increase in gang violence. 5.Approximately
47% of gang members are Hispanic, 31% are African American, 13% are white and 7% are
Asian. This is one of the few statistics that seemingly remains fairly steady over
the years regardless of the rise and fall in the other statistics about gang violence.
(http://www.mademan.com...) So as you can see gang violence is a big problem right
now, and with the amount of rappers singing about it and how its "bad@ss" its no wonder
the crime rates and gang activity have increased. We need to make a stand against
this supposed form of music! It will be hard but worth it!
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