Essays on Rap Music

Whilst Rap music has been around for some time now, it has become a vital part of our popular culture. The music charts are filled with rap songs every week, making it almost inevitable to not listen to rap whilst using the major music outlets...

Rapping is a form of music that incorporates rhyme and street vernacular over a backing beat or musical instruments. Rap is a very old word but undeniably one of the most popular genres to date. Initially, especially in the 15th and 16th century in Britain,...

The question of whether or not rap music should be embraced in a society has sparked a debate for the last two decades. Rap music started as an Afro-American culture, which hitherto has taken roots to hip-hop with both black and white artists. There before,...

‘Rap’. A term that has become rather synonymous with dubious morals, immoral/unlawful behavior or plain and simple ostentatiousness. However, the book “The Evolution of Hip-Hop Culture” by Jan Devos changed my perspective towards it. Granted, my previous negative impression of rap music was formed by...

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...

Many have said that Eminem is one of the best rappers out there in his time, next to a lot of other very good rappers in that time frame but Eminem wasn’t accepted right away in the rap game because he was white male he...

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...