Controversy in Hip Hop Subculture

Controversy in Hip Hop Subculture
For the last ten years hip hop has state one as one of the most popular, and successful type of music here in the United States. Artists are successfully becoming rich in these short amounts of time as being a result of selling millions of copies of their albums. The music of hip hop has been a controversial topic for many years because of its offensive lyrics, and influence of violence to the general public. Activists are fighting to pass a measure in congress that would possibly restrict rappers from using their negative lyrics. Their goal is to save the reputation of hip hop and stop the bad usage of curse words, and offensive messages to certain groups of people. People would not stop acting violent if censorship would be enforced to hip hop.
Censorship is not the answer for solving the issue of violence in the society. The reason why hip hop is so popular is because the rappers are allowed their freedom of speech and express themselves in their songs the way they chose to. Some rappers write about the things that they experience for example being in the clubs, growing up in poor neighborhoods, spending money and of course women. This relates to how some teenagers or even adults live their lives and even if they do not live this life they get an outlook of what the lifestyle is like based on the lyrics that they hear.
When it comes to women in the hip hop world there is a lot of controversy. Most people say that the way many rappers put these women in their videos is degrading to most women and shows that most men have no self-respect for them as individuals. As Hannah O’Connor stated, “Hip hop and the so-called gangsta rap sub-genre in particular is notorious for the exploitation of women and sexually explicit lyrics, there’s no doubt about it. Politician and anti-rap activist C. Delores Tucker called the genre "pornographic fifth," claiming that it was demeaning and offensive to African-American women.” Most women...