topics within rap music

For my blog post this week, I wanted to talk about how I felt about the variety of topics that are discussed in rap music today. The topics that are being talked about in rap music today typically have a negative connotation. These topics are sex, money, drugs, parties, etc. These types of topics cause me to have some sort of frustration. I get frustrated by these topics because it is repetitive almost every artist now talks about these topics on regular basis within their music. I do not care what these artists talk about in their music but sometimes it gets old and honestly sometimes boring. It also annoys me that women are viewed as objects in rap music and the videos for these songs.  Other artists do branch out to talk about issues within the country and society. For example, Childish Gambino released a song called “This Is America”. This song talked about the issue revolving around cop brutality, gun violence, etc. Gambino was using his platform to spread the message about these gruesome issues and the song still had a catchy beat and was extremely successful in the media. It does not surprise me that people still talk about these topics, because these topics were pretty popular to talk about when rap first began. But I feel like the topics that were talked about back then in rap is changing in today’s rap. More artists are starting to branch out and talk about more serious issues in society.