As Glenn Collins explains, "the influence of rap is now evident in the nation's language, music, fashion and advertising" (C15). ... I became aware of this topic because I listen to rap music. ... "Rap has become the largest-selling category of recorded music, and youth-obsessed culture-watchers are busily assuring us that we are all hop-hoppers now" (Teachout 14). ... "Compare the Influence of Rap Music to That of Rock and Roll Music on Pop Culture in the U.S." ... "Rap Music, Brash and Swaggering, Enters Mainstream." ...

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She understood that her son's music, while often condoning violence and urban destitution, was music that people could empathize with and relate to. Gangster rap, often termed gangsta rap has maintained a bad rap since its beginning. ... And the music industry, insisting that it is defending artistic freedom and arguing that music doesn't cause violence, has weathered a storm of criticism." ... Another supposed issue that plagues the genre of gangster rap is the music causes many White people to label all Black people as gang bangers and ghetto thugs. ... People keep up t...

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Tupac Amaru Shakur will go down in history as a rapper who always lived up to his wild reputation. ... This is where he wrote his first rap which was about gun control after he lost one of his good friends. ... (Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel-The Life of an Outlaw) In 1993 he followed up with another album, "Strictly for My N.I.G.G.A.Z." which was a strong selling album and got him a nomination for an American Music Award as best new rap hip hop artist. The media stopped focusing on Tupacs music career and started focusing on his troubles with the law. ... Tupac wrote so many raps and songs wh...

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Tupac Shakur, also known as Lesean Crooks, is a well known rap artist that (the police say) was supposedly gunned down, back in 1996, by former best friend Notorious B.I.G. ... The two rappers had been fighting for several years over a particular incident (East Coast vs. ... His expression in his vocal and the music itself evokes emotion. ... This is why he is and always will be known as a Messiah of the music industry, in all genres. ... An artist reflects emotion, time and love into their music. ...

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If music's purpose is to invoke emotions in the listener, then rapper Eminem has not only discovered this purpose but has utilized the power of music itself to convey his most agonizing traumas. ... However, when Caucasian rapper, Marshall Mathers, a.k.a Eminem, emerged from the slums of his Detroit home, he managed to stir more controversy with his lyrics than most people were ready to cope with. Eminem's lyrics made him "public enemy number one" when he openly rapped about murders and bad mouthed other artists in the music business. ... Much of the artistic value and many im...

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Tupac Shakur is a controversial rapper, poet, and actor adored by many and hated by some. With his out spoken lyrics, he talked about real issues in the world, which are not the usual topics of many rappers. ...

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