If you listen to rap music on a regular basic you will notice
stark differences between rap lyrics and hip hop lyrics. It is widely known that rap came up from streets where artists would use their rhyming skills to tell world about their sense of isolation and not being part of American mainstream.Hip hop lyrics from same place, but this time it was middle class children who did not like how they were treated as their families moved into suburbs and edge cities.
So what happened?
Along way, hip hop went mainstream as it was cleaner and dance friendly. Hip hop lyrics made their way from streets, to clubs, to MTV and finally to top of music charts. Rap lyrics remained where they began, as music of down trodden and this gives emerging artists freedom to experiment without worrying about their best camera angle.
You can still get a good rap album onto charts with very little time on MTV.
How do rap artists maintain such complete control over their music:
1. Rap lyrics are seen as more raw so artists can get away with more explicit and sensitive subjects. Whether it’s gangs, drugs, homophobia, or domestic violence, rappers have total creative freedom to address taboo subjects with out turning off their fans.
