Rap music is surrounded by opinions, sometimes positive, and sometimes negative ones… To officially understand opinions, we need to take a look online through internal and external websites on this matter. When it comes to personal research, I found there are a select few people who question the messages rap music possibly displays to the youth. Although, when searching online for reviews, comments, and outcomes of the question ‘does modern rap have a negative influence on children?’ I found this comment.
There’s validation in some of the issues he brings up, although most of it I do not agree with. The aspect of claiming ‘decline of education' isn't correct, rap is based on intergenerational issues in which conduct with African Americans and other races being placed within the opportunity deprived lifestyle. People who believe that this music dims our education demonstrate a lack of diversity, the key element I continually bring up is placing yourself into the shoes of an African American kid born in Detroit city, Michigan. You are born into one of the most violent cities in the world, having a crime rate of 1,965 incidents per 100,000 residents, facing 275 murders in the year 2019. Drug and gang fuelled lifestyle, where the negative influences continue to ‘rape’ your own innocence. Everything is a perspective and this someone has all my understanding on why he thinks this way, it isn’t an unjustified comment to claim rap will be the cause of a ‘lost generation’.
It may be true rap songs encourage these sorts of things, but many don’t support these problems; it's more of a gateway to unleash themselves from their distressed perspectives. Often the negative rap songs get the wrong media attention, it’s like when a celebrity does something debatable, all the lights shine on them. Where rap is an extremely broad genre, a small array of light is shown on the positive and influential rap songs, where a song promoting violence seems to get the negative headlines. We seem to focus too much on musicians’ flaws and what wrong they will do next, if there was any sense, we would create a focus to promote what’s been overcome to get themselves into the situation they are in today.
And for the people who think raps are simple because all they need to rhyme about is violence and stabbing people, listen to Dave's album, and come back and tell me you have the ability to intricate metaphors and double entendre displayed in his lyrics.