Essay #3 Pete Lottman 10/26/00 9:30-10:45 Title First off, lets re-classify the genre of music known as rap. People that listen to or compose rap music preferably like to call it hiphop. Today rap is known as hiphop and that is how it will stay throughout the rest of its existence as music. Even though hiphop is usually associated with violence and profanity it does have a message or a story behind it. Hiphop can no longer …showed first 75 words of 839 total…

…showed last 75 words of 839 total…an open mind. Hiphop is a brilliant means of stating how you feel and can have numerous ways of getting a point across. Many people use their talents of rhyming and creating beats to make money to find a better way of life. Without hiphop there would actually be more violence going on because people would be putting their efforts into illegal things instead of trying to make it on the billboard list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**