Hip-hop is a genre of music that has seen drastic changes over the last few years. Dating back to its origins, and through the 1990's, hip-hop was considered a desirable and likeable type of music. It has been only in recent years that hip-hop music and especially its counterpart, rap, have taken a turn for the worse. In its better days, many Americans had no problems with, and even enjoyed, listening to hip-hop music. Today's new style of dirty rap has single-handedly given the hip-hop genre a bad name. There is more cursing, stereotyping, and degrading statements heard in this style of music than any other genre of the past. It may also be said that rap/hip-hop music is giving today's America a bad image: an image of vulgarity, insensitivity, and ignorance. This is a problem that needs to be addressed. Due to this negative image, many Americans, currently believe that hip-hop has become less enjoyable to listen to. However, even though rap music is considered ‘less enjoyable,'......

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Title: Hip-Hop: It Won'T Stop
Approximate Word Count: 2322
Approximate Pages: 10 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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