The start of reality rap are viewed to be based upon African tempos which were used as a type of conversation by the native peoples. The lyrical element of rap music has a repeated chants and scats, along with call-and-response technique with the market. It has evolved and acquired in reputation in the 1960’s when a few revolutionary DJ’s begun to work block events in the Bronx. They would bring in large speakers, hook them up to a turntable and play two of the same record at the same time, repeating the same section of the vinyl over and over by scratching it. Other entertainers would chant and yell to the crowd.
In 1979, music companies documented rap for the very first time and gained popularity. In 1982, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five launched the very first well-known politically based rap. Grandmaster’s song, The Message relates to life in the inner city and the stress of being around violence and drugs. Rap music and all other forms of media have their places in this world. While some may dispute strongly about whether certain kinds of music are helpful or even safe for society to witness, their arguments continue to be their personal opinions.
The true fight for free speech is situated not in eliminating for the right to hear what you agree with, but in fighting for the freedom of those with whom you disagree. When you take away the public’s right to voice a varying opinion, through either their music, their writing, or their art you strike at the extremely heart of freedom for which people really should stand. Musicians, recording companies and fans are all concerned with the concern of music censorship. These people are pitted against the government officials and community businesses who are seeking to eliminate what is regarded as obscenity in popular music.
Problems arise in seeking a sufficient definition of obscenity as it applies to artistic works. It was decided that obscenity is a community matter and that it has to be confined on the basis of local, instead of federal, standards. In order for a product to be obscene, it should be patently offensive and it also must appeal to prurient pursuits and lack serious creative merit. Controversies come up in seeking a description for what constitutes artistic merit. Clearly, value in art is a really subjective thing. Some people will derive pleasure or insights from a work which others will find disgusting, disturbing or unappealing.
Reality rap and the topic of censorship is not something totally new. Many people in the record industry took up arms against the legal censorship. Citing the Supreme Court decision that obscenity is determined by a lack of artistic merit, rap followers stated that it is hard to believe that an album that almost 2 million people have bought, laughed with and danced to have no value as a imaginative work. Even though many people discovered it to be offensive, and many others considered its lyrics to be child like, there were obviously still many others who found some type of artistic value in it.
Hip hop music was first mastered in the nineteen seventies. In order to become a famous Reality Rap artist, one needs to sing out well, have the right point of view, and even more importantly know how to dance. Being a Street Music hip hop artist will not be a fairly easy career. It definitely takes a wide range of effort, support, and dedication.