Critical Investigation: Next Steps

Most people stereotype Hip-Hop to be negative, promote violence and very explicit. This is surely a bad look to Hip-Hop as many people portray the genre to be negative making it really hard for them to break through and prove that there is a positive side to Hip-Hop. Many rappers such as Chief Keef and Blood Money promote the negativity of Hip-Hop proving the common stereotypes of rap artist's with lyrics like "Bitches ain't shit" and "BANG BANG!", which is really unfair as this is not really how Hip-Hop is. However, Artist's such as J.Cole bring a positive feeling to Hip-Hop and really does challenge the stereotypes of Hip-Hop as he seems to bring wisdom and good emotion to the music and this is a real positive of rap as this is how it started. Lyrics from J.Cole "Let the rain was away all the pain from yesterday" and "It's better to fail trying than wondering what could have happened if you tried". This is really effective and portrays the positivity that Cole brings to Hip-Hop as his lyrics are very motivating and soulful and brings the good side of Hip-Hop and really does challenge the negative stereotype of Hip-Hop.

The rise of Media Technology has had a huge affect on how Hip-Hop is portrayed to be, from the uses of 'Twitter Beef' to explicit and violent videos being put online to many Hip-Hop artists social life or maybe even concerts. For instance, The Game was recently featured to be one of the Hip-Hop artists to be seen online for beating up other Hip-Hop artist 40 Glocc (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL_xU6QLYxM) 

 as seen on the video The Game is seen to be rapidly punching the rapper 40 Glocc and this really does 

bring the negative stereotype of Hip-Hop as they seem to be promoting violence by recording such violent 

events in their life and really does show how the new media technology has had a negative affect on the Hip-Hop culture

Many people believe that Hip-Hop was a better place when Tupac Shakur was around, reason being is that Tupac would rap about culture, politics, love and how we treat woman. This was very effective as Tupac brought the positive side of rap and really made people come together and celebrate his music as if he was speaking words of wisdom. Lyrics such as "Remember one thing, Through every dark night, there's a brighter day"and songs such as Changes really did motivate audiences and make them want to do something with their lives and this really did portray rap to be a positive and motivating music.