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Keeping it Real
HIP HOP The positive approach to understand and realize the importance of the hip hop music is that it supports the modish approach in understanding the prevailing circumstances of the society. As a matter of fact the news media is although serving the purpose of educating the people with the current scenarios that may impact the life of the elites in one way or the other, but the competitive advantage that the hip hop music have over the traditional media is not bounded to regions and origins but this music can be utilized by the rappers in conveying the desired message effectively (Rose). The youth might see to the news media as a monotonous and unrealistic measure of environmental disasters but the hip hop music ha the tendency of openly depicting the converging and diverging realities the way they are that is, keeping it real.
Hip Hop Music and Keeping it Real Saga
Hip hop music is one of the most argued and debated topic with respect to allowance in the civilized societies. The mainstream behind the hip hop music culture is to portray the unexpressed adversities faced by the under privileged masses as a consequence of the black street lives that ultimately devastates the real nature of healthy survival of individuals in the civil societies. This social evil of inequality and injustice has been described the real reason why the hip hop music is based on the principle of keeping in real.
The expression of voice to emulate the reality that prevails in the cultures has always been a subject of consideration. Like many other liberal and freedom loving societies the American society is also classified under the header of the countries that appreciates and promotes the freedom of speech, but yet many a times the societies fail to grant the due rights to many of its dwellers and as a consequence they may press their voice so as to bring a sophisticated change in the society at large.
It is a well established fact that the youth across the world has been seen as the architect of the future globe and keeping this fact in mind the states of many nations are working to eradicate all sorts of evils and injustice pertaining particularly to the youth. In this attempt to ensure a clean and healthy environment for the youth and future generations, the concerned agencies have tied their backs to work iron handed against the social evils and deviators that affect the feeble and vulnerable minds of the youth.
The concept of keeping it real has been used by the rappers so as to sustain the momentum of delivering the truth about the crude and crucial black urban life of the posh cities. But the basic point that goes in the favor of the anti-hip hop school of thought is the cultivation of immoral and illegitimate language in the society. The critiques argue that the degree of openness and the usage of slang and unacceptable language is a direct danger to the civil society and the morals of youth.
Apart from the negative consequences the hip hop music is also regarded as a consequent…
Works Cited
Rose, Tricia. "The Hip Hop Wars." Black Noise (n.d.).
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