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Do you feel like rap music has changed? Do you feel as if Hip-Hop was at its peak when Run DMC & Public Enemy were rapping. Or do you feel like now that rappers like Nicki Minaj and French Montana brought Hip-Hop to its peak. Hip-hop and rap has definitely changed there's no doubt about that. Do you believe Hip-Hop and Rap has changed to good to bad or bad to good. Well let me help you! Hip-Hop and Rap music has changed from the 80's & 90's to the 2000's by the following... the lyrics the creativity and the apparel.

Have you turned on the radio and listened to the station Hot97 once in a while or turn to 105.1 DJ Clue or the Angie Martenez show. The music you listen to may seem harmless but have you really listened to the lyrics. Songs today in this generation of time all they talk about is violence, shooting, drug trafficing, bling, clothes, sex, hoes, and how tough you and your hood is. The music we listen to is not a good influence on children and young adults to day. The music we listen to is pretty much telling people is okay to go to jail, its okay to disrespect women, its okay to go around doing whatever the hell you want. The songs don't even tell of the consequences of these actions, and this is all wrong.In the 80's and 90's Rap & Hip-Hop were unplifting to young men and women growing up in small urban communities and telling them to do right and not wrong. Rappers then like for example Big Daddy Khane, Dougie Fresh, Too Short spoke of the black experience and of the struggle to be a black man growing up. An for the females they had artist like Salt & Pepper, TLC, and Janet Jackson to look up to and be inspired by these were what they called strong independent women. Compare this song my Tupac "Dear Momma" to A Lil Wayne Song like "Alphabet B*tchs" take lyrics from these songs like from Tupac [|"I wonder why we take from our women][| Why we rape our women, do we hate our women?][| I think it's time to kill for our women]" and then Lil Wayne song " [|I been searchin but cant find her ever since i been wit Diamond wit Diamonds in her vagina And the E is for ever elegant Ericaa sweet red bitch] " Notice how one songs uplift the girl growing up in an urban community and the other talks about females in such an horrible way and no one seems to notice. We need to get back to our old ways of Rap & Hip-Hop. Now don't get me wrong not every rapper todays speaks like that. We have some rappers for example Commen, who speaks on not only urban but also political issues in the world today. An sad to say there aren't to many like him.

Now a days you can listen to songs and notice the beats seem and sound a lot alike as the next song.Which leads me to my next example creativity, where has is gone? Its been said that artist only make music to fill up there pockets not to uplift there people. So instead of taking pride and pacience into there music and creating an personal track they just pay people for samples of tracks or even take beats that have been used from previous song and add lyrics to it. Which I believe is extremely lazy, and artist who does this still seems to make millions of that song. The creativity is not only gone with the music behind the words artist are starting to use the same rhymes from previous song they or someone have said and say it on another song and still seam to make millions. Artist will do anything to get on the radio or be on an video countdown. They even hide behind these silly gemics. They get found of their creativity and are giving an image by record companies and because the record companies tell them if you do this youll get all this stuff so they go with what there company tells them.

[|Ex. Song Samples "Dumb Girl" .. Run Dmc] [|Recycle : "Jockin Jay-Z" .. Jay Z]

Have you noticed the dress code of rappers today? Its all about the [|bling,] wearing cloths from people like[| Louis Vuitton], [|Gucci] [|Burberry] & more. This era has really out done it self now. Everything they wear has a price of a thousand and up and thats not the best influence on young men and women growing up that can afford cloths like this. While back in the 80's and 90' they whore clothes like [|Kangol], [|Adidas] & gold you probably could afford back then but cant now because were in a recession. In the 80's we had artist like LL Cool J and Big Daddy Khane who were considered fashion icons. Today's fashion is no skirt body covered in tattoo's, thousand dollar jeans, and million dollar sneakers. All of these things are unecessary. An the fashion for women today is worst artist like Nicki Minaj are showing girls that big breast and a big but are good things to show off and that showing all your skin is not bad. But that is not the image you want young women to grow up with. An the males aren't make the situation better with half dressed females in there videos shaking there butts.

@Degrating Women  Is this the image you really want a young African American women growing up with. This is telling her its okay to walk out the house like this and this is the only way an male is going to be attracted to them, which is not true.While in the 80's and 90's they had women like salt and pepper tell them you don't need a man and that they are strong and beautiful, they inspired.I'd rather have my future children grow up with and influence like them. Where they made young women feel good about themselves. People like them need to come back around.  I believe Hip-Hop and Rap in the 80's & 90's were an better influence on the urban communities from the music we hear today. Talken about bling, ho's and clothes aren't really going to get you anywhere in life. Music today is teaching young men and women that you don't need creativity in life and you can go and live your life in the streets and not come to an consequence. So I may be an fan of hiphop and rap music from all artist but me unlike most of the world I'm not really influence by what they say like most people who breath everything rappers and hip-hop artist say. People need to realize that artist are only telling you these things so you can buy there records and albums. Which is really just putting money in there pockets.