Nobody Talks about the Positive in Hip Hop

The Hip Hop Wars

Nobody Talks about the Positive in Hip Hop

            In this chapter, Tricia Rose talks about how when people describe hip hop they described it as being a bad thing. When really the first reason for creating hip hop was to show that minority are people and may be poor but they can make something out of themselves if they choose to.         

            To begin with, Tricia Rose talks about how the commercial radio only promotes the bad things because; these are the things that the fans like to hear. Now-a-days all these fans would like to hear is about sex, money, drugs, and women, and at the end of the days these are the things that will always continue to sell. When Tricia Rose says this I agree with her in so many different ways. If you turn on the radio now, nine times out of ten the song playing would be about sex, money drugs or women. Then, people think that they hip hop music that is playing on the radio is the only music out there, which is not true at all. They are different varieties of hip hop music out there. It is just that only certain ones are played on the radio.

            In addition, Tricia Rose also talks about how when people talk bad about hip hop they tend to mention that all these rappers have so much money and will not even give money to those in need. People only think this way because they never hear it on the radio how so and so gave money to this charity or went to a specific area and helped out this amount of people. When in reality, Tricia Rose says that there are rappers who actually do give to those in need and not just only think about themselves.

            In the end, I do believe that only the producers only spill out the things that sell, and the profanity and the illegal doing is what sells to these fans. There are a few artists out there that don’t portray the lifestyle that their music sells, however, they do want to make money and a living and the profanity and illegal doing makes that type of money. Also, people believe that only the bad thing sells, which in the end is true. However, some of the good things that these artists do should be in the fame also. When it’s not it makes some of the fans think that these artist are selfish and never do anything that can help those in need. There are many times where we see these artists on top and wonder, what they actually do with their money. These commercial radio stations should at times show us some of the positive things artists do with their money.