Argumentative Essay About Rap Culture

Ever since rap music became a mainstream part of society in the 1990s, it has been widely debated and controversial topic. When looking at (or listening to) rap lyrics, most people can understand how they stand out from the lyrics in other genres. In most rap songs, lyrics consist of expressions and actions that would be deemed to be vulgar in thought. As seen in history, portions of rap lyrics have led to conflict, and even death in some situations. Lyrics expressing vulgarities does not generate a positive view towards rap culture. In my opinion, this view towards rap culture is warranted. Rap lyrics are widely controversial. Ever since the concept of ‘Gangsta Rap’ came on to the scene in the 1990s, rap lyrics have become increasingly graphic. Some are disgusting—others scary. One can go through any song and find a lyric that may make them feel a bit put off. Despite the content in artist’s creations, rap music does not intentionally promote violence in society. Rather, traditional and stereotypical rap music is a social commentary and reflection in regards to what is happening in and around the

In the report, Kubrin focused on how the changing rap landscape affected inner-city communities and led to a ‘street code’. Se writes, “Alternatively, one could frame the street code as an interpretive resource used to constitute what is and what is not deviant (Gubrium and Holstein 1997:48; Part II of Wieder 1988). This “constitutive” perspective treats the code as a source of indigenous explanation whereby reality is organized and made sensible through language use: “It is a form of social action through which social actors assemble the intelligible characteristics of their own circumstances. Descriptions, accounts, or reports, then, are not merely about some social world as much as they are constitutive of that world” (Holstein and Jones