Rap and Hip Hop

As Music seems to have been a apart of everyones life and kept fueling our mind-states due to its ability to influence on the way we act and feel, one aspect of music really seems to have propelled to an outstanding part of society and really has become a norma in our culture, and that is Rap And Hip Hop. Do not get me wrong, rock, reggae, blues, metal and all those genres keep progressing and developing into new styles as time goes on, but rap and hip hop has seemed to do it more so then all these other genres. Anywhere we go now, we seem to here hip hop, in cars driving by booming there huge basses to the beats of hip hop, in clubs it is the music that we all get down to, on television, on the radio, and so on and so forth. The list can keep going. This music style has hit are culture so hard that it is just completely engraved in our society. Sure, the senior citizens might not be approving, but they are not the ones that keep music going and exploit, it is the younger generation and these are the people that is this music genre has completely surrounded and engulfed.

I myself, do listen to a lot of hip hop and rap. I love the genre. Although I was not raised on it because my mother was a hippie and listens to predominately the oldies, I got into it in late middle school, early high school. At this time, rap and hip hop was still going on its upward slant and making its way into our society as a norm. As i got more into it, I learned about its origins and where it really started gaining notability and I searched deeper into it. You had groups and artists like Public Enemy, Run DMC and Funk Master Flex introducing this funk and groove to our culture. It became a culture shock and people started to listen to this music. Then in the late 1980's and early 1990's you had an artist named Dr. Dre and his group NWA who really pushed rap to the next level. Dre really incorporated this funk style to his rhythm and it was like nothing anyone had ever heard before. After his group NWA had a fallout, Dr. Dre went on to produce his own raps and find and make music for artists like Snoop Dogg and Tupac. He was pretty much the one who was solely responsible for making rap what it is. As time went on Artists like Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. and several non mainstream artists began to push hip hop and rap even further into our society. It was becoming of the norm. Soon after, you have An artist named Eminem, who Dr. Dre took under his wing and provided music for his raps, that would propel rap and hip hop to another level. Eminem was the first real white rapper and he gained lots of criticism for his unique and vulgar lyrics but fans and people seemed to love it and went crazy. 

From there on, more and more artists seemed to have been getting into this industry and making more of this music. It has changed though because it has become more about the music rather then the lyrics. The music is being made to boom in cars, be played in clubs, and be played at parties. It has become so large that it is a must have whenever you go somewhere where there is a lot going on. People like Kanye West, T.I. and Lil Wayne have had such an influence on the sound that so many people have become so obsessed with it. It is really quite astounding if you look at it to really realize that this genre has done to our population. It has singlehandedly taken over and become a part of our everyday life whether we choose to acknowledge it or not.