The Coming Up of Music History

            What has happened to the music? Music is nowhere near as good as it used to be. All these new rappers are just talking about getting money, having sex, and degrading women, which   makes the music boring and lame. The music that our parents listened to is what good music is called. Rappers such as Ice Cube, 2Pac, Queen Latifah, and Biggie defined good music, but 2Pac is who really defined good music.  

           2Pac rapped about things that people could relate to. In one of his song called, “Keep Ya Head Up,” 2Pac raps about mistreating the woman in our society. In this song 2Pac says, “I wonder why we take from our women. Why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think it's time to kill for our women,” teaching young men to treat women right.  Today’s music is teaching the children of the society to degrade women and do drugs. Not all rappers are rap this way though. New rapper J. Cole raps about things that the people can relate to. In his new “Crooked Smile” Cole raps about his smile that is not pearly white and straight, as he says himself in the song, “I keep my twisted grill, just to show the kids it's real. We ain't picture perfect but we worth the picture still. “ J. Cole is trying to remind the people what good music is.

                The article “20 Years Ago, Tupac Broke Through,” tells how 2Pac changed music and how the people could relate, being that he went through Los Angeles riots. J. Cole stated, "There's no other singular figure in hip-hop like Tupac Shakur. He wasn't the greatest rapper in the world. He didn't necessarily have the best lyrics all the time, but there was not a figure that captured what hip-hop is and where it came from: working-class black American and Latino and West Indian people from New York City and black and Latino people from the West Coast. No one captured that the way he did."