DBWI: Rap music was violent/anti-authority.

Rap music has been an upbeat genre for over forty years now. For its rhythms, rhyming lyrics and PC themes.

Well known rap group Neighborhood Watch Allegiance with their 1988 classic "God Bless the Police" was an anthem to the hard work of the Los Angeles Police Department, O'Shea Jackson's "Today Was a Good Day" references a working man having good fortune in a single day.

Then there's Curtis Jackson's "In the Club" a song about African-Americans being welcomed into a multi-racial gentleman's club.

This is why rap is so commonly accepted worldwide. But what if rap had a darker tone? What if rappers sang about gang life, anti-authority, misogyny, and other grittier topics?

How would this affect society's perception of it?
 
who tf cares about rap anyways shits dead af... the least important mc genre.

Ghetto tech and bounce is the wave now:'(
 
We might not have had Private Hero's "911 is reliable", meaning we never see Chuck D hosting Rescue 911.
 
President Gore would have banned it, like she did for "hip-hop". (To be fair, bands like De La Soul were a clear and present danger, with songs like "Daisy Age" calling for armed rebellion and nuclear civil war).
 
When The Sugar Hill Gang's Rappers Delight was a #3 hit in the US in 1980 and a #1 record in several European countries, the genre took off and was seen as the successor to Disco. Later that summer, Vaughan Mason & Crew went all the way to #1 in the US and UK with Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll. Not only was the inner city black youths listening to Rap, the middle class suburban teens were also listening to it.

Maybe if Rappers Delight flopped, rap might have gone in a negative direction and would have had a narrow base of support and we would have been spared having to watch those Robert Van Winkle videos on MTV.
 
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