How Does Hip Hop Affect Society

Hip hop is not only a music genre is also a form of expression, a life style, and a culture. Hip hop helps young men get out of the streets. One of the most popular music genres is hip hop even with all the cursing words and in some cases negative messages. This “negative messages” in most of the cases are the experiences and the reality this rappers live or have lived in the “hood” and thats okay because music is for that to express yourself through a form of art instead of stealing and murdering.

Hip Hop has saved lots of young men by getting them of the streets. Most of the rappers have had a very bad past and experiences such as being gangs, stealing, participating in fights, and being arrested. This young men start expressing through music, writing their reality to show the world. Some have the opportunity to be signed by a record, become famous, earn lots of money, and get out of the streets. Not everyone has the same opportunity but the ones who do show the world how hip hop has helped them and want more kids to have the same opportunity. Im going to show you some cases were hip hop has helped and influences society.
Chirs Hirwa known as Poppin’ Chris is a famous hip hop dancer that uses the power of hip hop to encourage positive change amongst youth, through dance he helps the most disadvantaged kids get out of the vicious cycles they are living in, taking them off the streets and away from prostitution and drugs. “Dancing can take us to a whole other level. I want these kids to get there too, to stop doing all these bad things” Hirwa explains.He travels twice a week around the Rwandese capital Kigali’s orphanages to teach hip hop to children, also wanting to involve more girls since there are very few in the industry. He calls this “hip hop for hope”. This is one of the cases in which hip hop helps