By Bockmon Blogs!
Rap music has had a profound impact on the music industry; it is now part and parcel of popular culture, Rap music as a genre has elevated and captivated the minds of many. Although rap music has seen much success, popularised records seem to praise criminality and greed. Artists whom reflect their community in a positive light are often marginalised; the end result is a generation of black youths whom aspire to be thugs and criminals.
Movies in addition to rap music cause the youth to be lead astray, films like boys in the hood and Friday glamorise the so called ghetto. Kids end up trying to emulate fictional characters alongside their favourite rappers.
The rappers these kids look up to are actually, puppets themselves of large corporations. Most of the stuff these rappers rap about they have never done themselves, record labels just use them as puppets to sell unattainable images to the youth further corrupting and destroying our communities.
Instead of growing up inspiring to be doctors and judges, kids grow up wanting to be drug dealers and thugs like there rap role models. Rap music has lost its initial artistic appeal most of the music put out nowadays lacks meaning and substance. Don’t get me wrong there are still some good rap artists out there but as stated they are hardly publicized.
Rap music one day will hopefully return to its natural artistic form but until then it will continue to divide and destroy the black community. Kids need to understand that the so called ghetto is a mindset, they can actually escape poverty but they need to be self disciplined and not lead astray.
