How Society Likes to Blame Music
Universally, music has always been a unifying way of bringing people together. Since pre-historic times when cavemen made animal-skin drums to presently when we have tons of different musical genres of whatever you can imagine, we always operate to some sort of a rhythmic beat. But as of recently, certain types of music have come under scrutiny, predominantly gangsta rap and heavy metal. Now you'd think that these two genres of music are complete opposites of each other, musically as well as culturally-based. When in fact, they have quite a few similarities.
Gangsta rap evolved from the early days of rap in the late 1970's [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gangsta_rap] to include lyrics of violence and supposed mayhem. But if you take a look at some of the lyrics it's actually the rapper's life, but exaggerated. Now, you may ask, why bother exaggerating something as horrible as a drive-by shooting? But it's all about bragging rights, guys do that......
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