The African American Community: How rap music has made a negative contribution. It is easy to write or comment about the negative aspects of rap music because controversy and its reputation has proven to be a hot seller in this society. Rap music has to constantly endure a damaging reputation because the negatives in the music are focused on the most in the media, and the negatives sells. But, rap artists whose lyrics are positive …showed first 75 words of 932 total…

…showed last 75 words of 932 total…more attention than the positive aspects. The African American community has become comfortable with seeing the negative lifestyles of rappers, hearing the albums with explicit language, accepting actions of degrading women, and also the battling of artists over materialistic things. Living in luxury homes, buying multiple luxury cars, jewelry, and clothes have allowed the rap business get to a comfort zone which makes it hard for artists to switch to making albums that are meaningful.