Hip hop and any other genre have brought many battles but in specifically rap and hip hop which is always been blamed for its cultured background. For instance, William Bratton rapper was blamed in New york for rapping and pointing out issues of gun control. Hip hop and rap are a method of vocal delivering popularised. For many generations, it has been seen with profanity, misogyny, and much other discrimination. But not only is a negative it can also turn out to be good things. (Crooke, Alexander, Travis, Raphael) “ School counselors, psychologist and social work had made hip hop into promoting mental health…some had called rap “ the perfect form for music therapy”.” this inform us, how hip hop and rap not only is based on something negative but it can show people way to express of self and community empowerment. With many genres, you can express yourself and no matter what, hip hop and rap still has many effects of discrimination, because of the complicated historical but challenging our preconceptions of hip hop culture because it could be one important movement throughout the generation of music.
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