Yes, It’s Gangsta Rap – And No, It’s Not Crime

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Whenever I talk to people about rap who don’t listen to that kind of music themselves and who aren’t that much informed about it, it often happens that they say things like: <<I don’t like Hip Hop because that’s just some dumb idiots talking about their big guns and gold chains!>>. It seems like they equalize rap and Hip Hop with Gangsta Rap.

But that’s totally not the way it is! Rap has so much more to offer than just Gangsta Rap. But also Gangsta Rap can be very good music. I totally can’t understand the rap-bashing by some people or the media because of some rapvideos they’ve seen on MTViva and the condemnation of it for brutalizing the youth.

I think you have to see this kind of rap as simple entertainment that shouldn’t be taken to seriously. It’s like watching an action or gangster movie. No one would accuse Robert DeNiro or Al Pacino of being responsible of brutalizing the youth because they’re playing some Mafia killer. But eventually the topic of such movies is nothing else than the content of Gangsta Rap tracks.

Of course there’s also a lot of Gangsta Rap that’s really crap, but that’s no reason for generalizations. So here’s some really good stuff that’s entertaining and not at all dangerous.