Is “Rap Music” Sex Positive, Hypersexual, Sexually Distorted and/or Sexually Empowering?

Let’s extensively examine the genre from different angles…

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Like most things in human existence, rap music will not fit “nice and neatly” into one box. Multiple things can be true simultaneously while some things in that truth exhibit polarity, contradictions, and even the possibility of conflicting interests and the inability to harmoniously coexist.

With the aforementioned in mind…

This article will objectively explore various aspects of rap music as it relates to its capacities to construct, influence, and impact realities within the sphere of sexuality.

Additionally, I will quickly clarify the bifurcation between “Hip Hop” and “Rap Music”.

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And so, we begin…

Hip-hop or hip hop music is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s by African Americans and Afro-Caribbean immigrants in the Bronx, a borough of New York City.

Hip-hop music originated as an anti-drug and anti-violence genre consisting of stylized rhythmic music (usually built around…