Black Music Research Paper

The Evolution of Black Music Black music has changed so much throughout the years. Music is used all over the world by millions of people to physically and mentally heal them. It is used to express emotion, give messages, and to tell stories. Music has a way of bringing people together and communicating with beats and lyrics. Different articles talked about how slaves even used to use it as an escape route. Anything from rap, jazz, R&B, gospel, and etc. already had the rode made out for future music because back in the day artist used music for what we used it for today. The Historian of African Americans stated that, “African American involvement in the nation’s music making has influenced every genre of American music,”(Brooks). Slaves cultivated their own style of music.
The Evolution Of Rap Music stated that “Rap was something to be heard and seen,” (Cho). Rap was a strong subject and still is. Rap was a way for any black person that had the talent to spit rhymes on a beat to speak their mind and talk about their struggle. Some talk about their childhoods and whatever they felt like rapping about. Rappers like LL Cool J, Eazy E, Slick Rick, and Schoolly D paved a way for the new school rappers. The made rap a hot topic back then. LL Cool J made the song Mama Said Knock You Out that became very popular really fast. Eazy E who unfortunately passed away made hit songs like Creep N’ Crawl. Eazy E was one who lived a street life and he loved the women. He actually died of AIDS at a early age. During this age rappers did interact with a lot of women and they loved money just like the new age rappers did. That kind of stuff was passed down to different rappers. Migos, YFN Lucci, Nicki Minaj, and Drake also love the same thing and they talk about it in their music videos but old school rappers did more interaction with the audience. Most of the old school rappers would rap on street corners such as freestyle