ral facets, hip-hop music in general is colorless and not racist. It comes from many categories in music, for example, funk, soul, heavy metal, salsa, disco, rhythm and blues, etc. In addition, people make the music from different races or nationalities from all over the planet, but its roots start with young urban African Americans.As time progressed, rap music continued to flourish the most within the hip-hop culture. It is known for bringing together "a tangle of some of the most complex social, cultural, and political issues in contemporary American society." Rap initially caught on because of the fact that it offered young urban New Yorkers a chance to freely express themselves and it was accessible to anyone who wanted to do it. They now had a chance to tell their life stories in a way that people were not used to hearing. With this God given gift, you didn't have to invest in any type of lessons or any other training. Rapping, in essence, is a verbal skill. Rap also offered unlimited challenges as there were no real set of rules...other than it had to be original and the rhyme was to the beat of the music. Another aspect that made it so attractive was that rap could be about any and/or everything. Because there were no rules to rapping, the personality of whoever was rapping came through in the music.As Rapping grew within the urban ghettos, artists started to evolve and record rap. From this, the music industry took hold and commercialized it as the record labels saw the potential and felt it was a moneymaking opportunity. It was believed that "oppressive conditions will usually result in people creating a form of self-expression." Since rap was becoming commercialized, it allowed room for those people who weren't "true rappers"...those who were mainly interested in a dollar and exploiting hip hop and its popularity, for example Vanilla Ice. The original intent of cultural movement was put on the back burner in an interest of cr...
