Hip Hop / Rap as the music is called in essence focuses on the depression and good feelings and times of urban America. It also engages racism, sexism, violence, materialism, and aggression that blacks have towards each other and other races. Hip Hop now in it's present form is a business an commercial industry that makes billions of dollars every day and employs convicts, drug dealers, even children. Although it's America's most profitable profession it is still controlled by white America as a whole. The network Black Entertainment Television (BET) once owned by Bob Johnson a black, was bought out and now owned by Viacom a white majority owned company.
Depression in music is always something you will hear in any type of music, in Hip Hop though it sends a different message to the ears. "F*** The Police", "187 on an undercover cop" speak for themselves as to show blacks feelings towards police oppression. On the other hand hooks like "I need love", and "When I Cry We Cry......
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