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Often times when people hear about hip hop/rap music, they fill paint a picture in their heads of black men cussing, guns, marijuana, cocaine, lots of gold, and girls looking like prostitutes. Parents and teachers put an image in their kids' head that rap music is bad, and they don't want their kids to be influenced by something that is negative. With the way Rap music is advertised in the US, I would have to agree with that looking at it from an average parent's point of view. But what people don't know is that hip hop isn't just a type of music, it's a culture. It's a culture full of original elements, and it's also a place where people can show others what they have got and who they are. This is one thing I am passionate about and that is music, especially rap/hip-hop music.
Rap is a form of popular music developed especially in African - American urban communities and is characterized by spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics with a syncopated, repetitive rhythmic accompaniment. That......

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