Does Hip Hop music address political issues?

[Mr. Carideo]

I have not heard any hip-hop songs about the wars or the economy.

[A Carideo]

Old style rap would be very socially aware.  But now a days everything is marketing driven.

[adolfo diaz]

no i havent heard any hip hop songs about the war or the economy

[nousaiba haroun]

Yes. Hip Hop music does address political issues. There are many Hip Hop artists that talk about political issues

[jahongir amirkulov]

i don't know hip hop songs about the wars or the economy

[gausali malik]

i never listen to hiphop music

[barbara yaroshevsky]

HipHop Music does not adress poltical issues at all. Most hiphops songs today in the morden wold today do not talk about poltic politic. Most of the songs have curses in it or just talk about there love. Most of the songs talk about these topic. I guess the mucic world does not really care about the world today. This is my opion to choose to respect if you wish to do so.

[estephanie cruz]

i dont listen to hip hop

[fernando vidals]

I had never hiphop in my life and I think that it boring  

[sean cyrus]

Only some songs because mabe if there was an earthquake, some hip hop artest might sing about it on how 

important it really was. 

[omkaar rambharose]

No i havent heard any hip hop songs about the war or the economy

[jermaine roper]

some song like arties that sing about real life song

[hansley mednard]

some hip hop songs such jayz's music or lil wayne or frequently drake's 

 

[hansley mednard]

i dont understand the question

[reanna ramasami]

yes.some hip hop music do address political issues 

[moeezur chaudhry]

I do not know if Hip Hop adresses political issues. I do not because i'm not the hip hop type person. My friends know if there is political issues in Hip Hop. 

[ernesto vargas]

Most hip hop songs discuss political issues but the singers dnot actually say it.  They use slang and other words to discuss it which is why people think hip hop is so special..

[belal alayah]

It's true I havent heard any Hip Hop songs about the wars or the economy thats happening these days.I don't really listen to songs that much, I usually do my hw and play video games. I think they should write songs about wars or the economy because while Celebrities are having fun with their friends, other people are dying and suffering of starvation and need help.

[reanna ramasami]

yes i dont think  hip hop music addresses political issues 

[ross severe]

Yes some hiphop music address political issues. There are some rappers that rap about political issues in there songs.

[jermaine roper]

ya boy swag

[jermaine roper]

swag

[gulshoda halilova]

i dont think Hip Hop musics adress political issue because when i hear hip hop music i never heard about political issues.Some or most of the Hip Hop they curse orrr jsut talk about the problems they have in there life.These are some of the topics they talk about.So this is what i think about

[maftuna saidova]

Dear Mr.Carideo,

I am very surprised to hear that you have not heard any Hip hop songs about the wars or the economy...But If you are interested in them I know a little umm...... well actually I know enough about hip hop because well...umm I love Hip hop!!!!  Hip Hop to si alike a beat with lyrics that rhyme the only thing that I love about is that its beats. People love Hip hop because it is i think kind of related to rap which happens to be my third favorite kind-of music. And by the way I want to be  a Hip Hop dance teacher and  thats my  half Future dream LOLzzz...

BYE FOR NOW!!

Mafti!!!=)

[cesar bliss]

yea it does it diffrent types of political issues becouse some have courses and some people listen to music like that

[faharia akther]

i really dont know if hip hop music adress political issues because i really dont listen to hip nhop music. 

[fabienne gilot]

I dont know if it does havent heard it mention before.

[sanjay sanjay]

yes it does because lots of kids are saging their pants and following rappers. All because they see these rappers . 

[ernesto vargas]

that wasnt the question.. haha

[michael neckles]

I don't listen to hip hop.swag

 

[sujan gurung]

yes

[Md hossain]

Never ever. At least I never heard any music about politics. And even there's some song about politics, I don't think they will sound good.

[juana alonso]

no i dont thinkso :0

[karma karma]

yea soMe hiP hOp  MuSiC AdDrEss PoLitIcAl IsSuEs..

[sujan gurung]

yes, i think the HipHop music address political issues because lots of kids are saging their pants and following rappers. All because they see these rappers.  

[ahsan ijaz]

I don't know because i dont listen to hip hop.

[kazi taufique]

no it dose not

[shaheera amjad]

ti dont understand the question 

[kerby baptiste]

no

[medjie jerome]

no,it does not

[kerby baptiste]

i don't think so idon't konw about you

[maruf parvez]

i naver heard any hip-pop song about political.

[arman hossain]

[hadiyatou diallo]

YES HIP HOP MUSIC DOES ADDRESS POLITICAL ISSUES..ALOT OF HIP HOP SINGERS TALK ABOUT POLITICAL ISSUES.

[kimberly vasquez]

All Hip Hop talks about girls and drinks

[kimberly vasquez]

 

 

 

lol...wat kind of person u r

[kimberly vasquez]

yea is tru3

 

 

 

 

[nisba bibi]

i realy don;t understand this question

[baptiste, kerby]

what

[anvar musokhonov]

I don't lessen to Hip Hop music

[jasmine walker]

well not all hip hop music addresses political issues

[sohail mohammad]

i have not heard any  yet.

[miguel castillo]

i dont know if some hip hop music addresses political issues.i have not heard of that.When it first boomed out of New York's South Bronx more than 25 years ago, hip-hop was bare-bones but expressive, made by young men too broke to buy instruments. With turntables, microphones and words, they made music that, at its best, spoke out against poverty and injustice. Early milestones such as Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five's "The Message" and Public Enemy's "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back" established rap as a new form of protest art...

...But now, with a few exceptions, mainstream hip-hop is more party than politics, defined by videos featuring artists rapping about their cars, their jewelry and their booty-shaking women -- the all-American materialism of Madison Avenue.

[vanessa wyatt]

 i don't think hip hop songs talk about political issues all they talk about these days is drinking and all other nasty stuff you don't want to know

[jane zheng]

sorrry i dont understand this question but i think the answer is NO. 

[jannatul kabir]

 I do not think hip-hop music addresses political issues.

[athena elvie]

Political hip hop (also political rap) is a sub-genre of hip hop music that developed in the 1980s. Inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy were the first political hip hop group

[meliah mcphie]

HIP HOP DOES NOT TALK ABOUT POLITICAL ISSUE  BECAUSE HIPHOP IS MUSIC HIP HOP ENTERTAINS PEOPLE TO LISTEN TO IT. BUT IT WASENT ALLWAYS LIKE THAT HIPHOP USED TO ADRESS POLITICAL RESONS BUT KNOW I GUESS PEOPLE THINKS ITS BORING EVEN  THAT BETTER ARTISTS ARE COMING  OUT AND MAKING BETTER  SONGS TO LISTEN TO.

[anthony dinh]

i dont know since to never listen to any hip hop on political issues  

[kenice kenice]

Yes,it does the Black Eye Peas made a song called "where is the love" it is talking about people losing their jobs. People are not paying taxes and they're walking around watching people struggling to eat food.Both grownup and young children of the world. 

[joshua robles]

no because the songs today are mostly about other or there life and what they did to get that far 

[matthew ross]

NO. Because there are more rappers and artisits coming in and they just talkabout what they feel. Most rappers and artists do just to express their feelings.

[paloma perez]

I've never heard of hip hop music that adresses political issues so I
don't know

Mr. Carideo wrote:
> I have not heard any hip-hop songs about the wars or the economy.

[iqtedar alizai]

Yes  hip hop music does address political issues

[nere]

i have never heard about hip hop as political issues

[paloma perez]

I've never heard of hip hop music that adresses political issues so I don't know, but from the hip hop music I've heard I don't think that hip hop music adresses political issues

[abdullah sajid]

Hip Hop does not address political issues because songs are made for entertaining people. They do not talk about stuuf like the government. So hip hop does not address political issues.

[suffian zahid]

Yes Hip Hop music does address political issues. There are many Hip Hop that talk about political issues  

[Rayshon Neptune]

yea i guess they would do that, because they know that kids listen to music and they want to address the kid and adults around the world about the problem 

[ricardo condado]

I mostly dont listen to hip hop. Hip hop doesn't catch my interest. But  most of the times hip hop does address political issues.

[kevin malloy]

I think that hip hop does not address political issues because rappers and hip hop artists only sing about their lives and have no care for political issues or the economy

[Yamilka Acosta]

nooooooooooooooooooooooo 

[Brandon]

 Well it does a little by the women it shows which is not right. And it does address political issues by the music and

how they sing is bad.  

[sabrina shahid]

Hip Hop music something address political issues. For example Drop the World by Lil Wayne and Eminem. For more info LOOK UP THE LYRICS!!!

[bianca cange]

I don't think hip hop music addresses politic issues.It has no relations to it whatsoever. Hip hop artists don't have political issues in their songs.

[Brandon]

I don't think that rappers have the right to do anything in their own videos so they should be able to. But if kids want to see it it is their

fault for watching that.  

[waleed sikander]

Hip Hop is just a lifestyle. People always butt their heads in and get in trouble.

[christina]

i think some artist talk about those issues.others just talk abou there love lives

[Yamilka Acosta]

well it depends on the language they use and the words. some do and some dont but the ones that do that is not a good thing for teens parents and even teachers.

[mirza baig]

yes hip hop does cause political issues but HIP HOP is the best

[sameera sheikh]

Yes if you heard the song "Airplanes" by B.o.B. he talks about politics and how it changed America from past to present...... XD

[shikha thapa]

i haven't either

[jaime balbuena]

well i have no idk i really they probaly dont but then again only certain people care

[Anthony Nazaire]

no, hiphop doesnt address political issues. And it never will

[nayaab yousaf]

yah i dont really know i listen to alot oh hip hop but i never really pay attention to it ....

[muhammad khalid]

I DON'T LIKE HIP HOP SO I DON'T LISTENED TO IT

[brenda morelos]

i personally hate hip hop so i dont really know if it addrsses political issues.

[ausley john]

You know some Hip Hop music address political issue. There is a song called MY PRESIDENT IS BLACK

[jennifer lopez]

no yes maybe s-o its nun of your beez waxz

 

[Shawna Jackson]

No Everything iS About Money,Sex, And Drugs And People Who Think They Got ''Swagg''

[miguel castillo]

i have heard.Hip Hop music and Hip Hop culture has not only penetrated the daily workings of the global world, but has also profoundly impacted the public’s understandings of poverty, artistic expression, and the worldview of Black and Brown youth across the globe. The questions we face looking forward, is how can young people channel the culture’s transformative power; and how do progressive activists & community organizers address the negative aspects of the music—plainly, how can this complicated social phenomenon effect positive political change? You all talk exclusively about Hip-Hop music—specifically mainstream Hip-Hop music. I want to expand the conversation to also consider Hip-Hop culture, and for us to seriously meditate on where Hip-Hop music comes from. What are its origins? Mainstream Hip-Hop has never been overly interested in “consciousness.”

[yuri]

i havnt heard of this either