Hip hop is an art form that has long allowed artists to freely express their opinions and convey their messages to listeners. However, the artists' messages have transcended the extraordinary and generated the impression that the genre is excessively violent and strives for materialism and capitalism. RAP: In contemporary decades it has been a controversial musical genre that has been forced to endure the cutting edge of mainstream media and public and political moral panic. From NWA's politically motivated verses to the dramatic East Coast-West Coast rivalry that ultimately led to the violent, unsolved murders of icons Christopher Wallace (Notorious) and Tupac Shakur, it seems that political groups have resorted to making this style of music as a moral panic and have decided that there is indeed a correlation between rap and youth violence. Despite ongoing criticism of rap and its alleged inherent violence, many overlook the empowering and racially motivated reasoning for rap's existence. Similar to other forms of grassroots music, rap cannot be fully understood unless it is critiqued outside of its current context and understood for its historical and grassroots beginnings. The popular rap music of a late modern society does not reflect its early hip hop culture of young, urban, blue-collar black men and women, rap's roots lie in the verbal heritage of West Africans, its mediums as the discourse of a otherwise racialized people, and marginalized groups have now expanded to include their ultimate appropriation and commercialization by the music industries. Hip hop music (which in turn leads to rap) is said to have originated in New York's South Bronx in the early 1970s by a Jamaican group... ... middle of paper ... the conclusion emerges as the symbol of resistance to the lived experience of the ghetto, and not the source of violence in the communities. To understand the complexity of rap, it is crucial to analyze the entire rap, including historical and political motifs. If you want to address violence in the rap and hip hop genre, you must first revisit the issue at its root, namely the great disparity that exists in our society, and how rap has actually become a means of resistance for those who have to endure the situation structural. injustice that exists in response to institutions of oppression that have further exacerbated racial and class discrepancies. To eliminate the present nihilism of black youth there must be an answer to rap, there is a need for scholars and political powers to take the microphone and leave a blow to those who are listening with attentive ears..