Why Not Rap January 28

Most rap music is misunderstood or not taken seriously compared to other types of genres due to many people thinking it’s all about sex, violence, and drugs as well as thinking rap music is sexist towards women. In most high schools teachers do not want to discuss or read song lyrics in class due to their negative opinions against rap music. They believe that rappers set bad examples to the youth by rapping about killing people on the streets or owning guns and rapping in detail about having sex. They believe it is too R rated for their students. In addition, they also believe the songs about smoking weed and snorting cocaine will influence their scholars to try drugs. Besides sex, drugs, and violence, many of the instructors do not like how male rappers talk about women in their lyrics because they think that rappers objectify and stereotype women to assert their masculinity. By calling them “hoes” or “bitches” and rapping about how they have authority over them. What the instructors do not understand is that they are just rapping about real occurrences that happen as well as the struggle of surviving and that a lot of different songs talk about sex, not just rap. For instance, the article, “The 100 Best Songs About Sex”, lists 100 songs from every genre with the main topic being sex. Rap is not the only genre that has sexually objectified women, an example is the country song hey girl by Billy Currington. it’s a song about a creepy guy at a bar harassing a girl not letting her leave without him. In other words, rap is not taught in school because of the lack of knowledge and the preassumptions teachers already have about rap music being associated with negative content.