Essays on Rap Music

Tupac Shakur is an inspiring figure to many underprivileged individuals. Tupac Shakur through his political perspective, music, and poetry inspired young disadvantage people to realize that they can achieve a better life for themselves outside of drugs, poverty, crime and the ghetto. Tupac, is perhaps...

Kanye West as an American rapper became popular during the late 90s and early 2000s producing music that appealed to teens and young adults. Through his music and actions, he tells his audiences how he truly feels without caring about what people think. Kanye West...

Misogyny has always been an issue in the media. The over-sexualization of women is appalling, and extremely degrading. This problem often slips by unnoticed because we have become desensitized to it. It’s never viewed as a problem, instead it’s become normal to overly sexualize females...

Music is defined as ”vocal or instrumental sounds combined in such a way as to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion”. Rap or hip-hop songs are also part of art, comprising very inspiring messages, stories or author’s feelings. But some of them...

Poems are used around the world to make the audience feel a specific way, and for the artists to express their feelings and emotions. Poetic devices are a very important method in voicing our message. In poems, different types of poetic devices are used to...

Cornell West, a philosopher who studied African Americans described hip hop as postural semantics. Dancing and deejaying formed the components of rapping. New York is the main source from originating hip-hop. Radio play was the first problem that rap ran into. The Black radio refused...

Rap refers to a mode of music belonging to American of African descent which encompasses rhyming words that is sang to a musical accompaniment. As a music genre, rap music is indisputably one of the most famous types in the world. In the present day,...

Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on October 17 1972, in Saint Joseph, Missouri. His dad left him around the age of one. Marshall states this in his song Cleanin’ Out My Closet. Debbie Mathers was left to raise Marshall and his 3 siblings. Marshall’s...

The song “Dear Mama” is a song written by Tupac Shakur at the age of 25 from East Harlem, New York (Tupac Shakur). There is only one album version of this song called “Me Against the World”. The song is about Shakur forgiving his mother...

Marshall was born to Deborah R. Nelson and Marshall Bruce Mathers Jr. on October the 17th 1972 in Saint Joseph, Missouri. Marshall was born a healthy baby with no issues. By 2 months he was able to lift his head up because of the muscle...