Hip hop is an art form that is increasingly becoming popular all over the world. It started out in The United States among the black people of the country, and for the longest period of time, it made its way into people’s minds that it was the music of the black people. However, this has brought up something about hip hop music that a lot of people found objectionable: the lyrics. The lyrics seemed to be promoting violence.
But to understand what this is about, we need to see some examples. In his song ‘Let the Rhythm Hit ‘Em’ MC Rakim says “I’m the arsenal, I got artillery, lyrics are ammo…”. MC Solaar from France compared his mic to body armour and warned the listeners about his cache of lyrical bullets in his song ‘The Haemoglobin Concubine’. Kendrick Lamar referred to himself as Kung Fu Kenny, a reference to a character played by Jackie Chan in a 2001 cop movie Rush Hour 2. There are several other references as well, but t
Hip hop can be dated back to the construction of Cross Bronx expressway, displacing hundreds if not thousands of black and Hispanic people from their families while white people fled the area. This was further made worse after renewal projects of the Bronx made more economically delicate people shift to the South Bronx. The black people were left with hardly any resources from the city, fragmented leadership and limited political power, and the South Bronx began to be depicted as this place drained of energ
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