Rap is poetry set to a beat. That's good in theory but the widespread application of rap is very poor. In America, the poorly educated with little understanding of language tend to rap more than other styles of music. This is bizarre since word-craft is nowhere near the optimal style of music for the poorly educated.
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Not sure what kind of response this comment is supposed to solicit, but I'd say that's a little broad. I would say popular artists are educated enough to tell complex stories and get across a powerful message better than you or I might. (If you were to look at songs like "Stan" by Eminem or "Dance with The Devil" by Immortal Technique.)
And why particularize Americans? Would the same not apply to rappers from any country, why in your opinion would an unpopular rap artist from Russia be any more educated than one from the states. (Mind you I say this as a Canadian, so these are not points of contempt, but rather points of debate.)
Rap culture is the most present in America.
Are you not a fan of the genre? Agreed it's popular there, but so then rap is for the poorly educated?
The poorly educated in black communities tend to rap music far more than anyone else. I wouldn't be able to tell you why. I do know that rap has low economic status connotations due to this, though.
I would say the poorly educated dominate most fields of entertainment, and that most of the people in those disciplines have low economic status connotations... Artist, actors and musicians are much of the same (actors, artists and comedians are all usually assumed to be broke and constantly out of work as well as uneducated)
It is not neccesarily the poorly educated. The hiphop genre is created from disco; playing the nonlyrical parts from LP and mixing it with reggae's turntables, soundsystems and MJ's. It is for the poor people, because they can easily take cheap material by sampling and create their own. The stuff they rap about ate the problems of their life (decisions), most of the times because they are not very smart moves, but that is coincidental. Hiphop is based in the South Bronx of New York at an illegal party; I forgot the name of the DJ. It is more a genre of protest to the mainstream disco from that time.