Metal vs rap
Rap music has been around for more 100 years
and its much older then heavy metal which started on the late 60s. The rap was
started by Africans, even before they came to America they used to tell some of
their stories rhythmically.
Despite the effect of the slavery and racism
on the Africans and their rap music over the years, rap wasn’t
really known to the public and it was mostly known as a street art.
Rap was mostly used by the African American
teenagers. In the late 60’s people like James brown opened the window for rap by making funk
music and after him a band called the Sugar hill Gang started their work called
“rappers delight” and it was the break through for the rap genre and an opportunity
to position itself in the minds of white people too.
Heavy metal is much younger then rap music.
Heavy metal bands started their work from
1964 and since the first day it began it was immediately placed in the hearts
of fans and was accepted very quickly by the public. One of the greatest hits
which it helped the break through was the Steppenwolf’s “Born
to be Wild” and it really showed the heavy metal to the world.
When it comes to controversies of genres, It
all comes down to the change they have through time.
Each genre has had their golden age and it
will go on for it for some time. Heavy metal’s golden age was from 1960 to 1995 on my
opinion, this was the best era for heavy metal music cause the band’s
music were strong and with a meaning.
But after that time the focus on the meanings
were getting less and less and things like black metal and speed metal came
along and they didn’t follow up the nature of the metal. They turned this genre into a
genre of atheists and devil worshipers.
Although there are a lot of fans for it but
the nature of the metal has been changed and the controversies you can find are
more in the golden age.
Rap music its been around more then metal but
it still holds its nature although there are some changes to it, changes are
such as the negative raps which involves sex and drugs ... or the gang fights
between rappers. rap still have maintained the nature which is about the dare
to speak out and now days it is more commonly known as the young generation's
language.
Now when it comes to the level of controversy
between the level heavy metal and rap without a doubt rap will be the one with
highest level of controversy. i am personally a big fan of the heavy metal and
if i was writing this article 20 years ago the metal will definitely be the
number one, but the truth is that the gold era of heavy metal have ended a long
time ago and now all of the music are focusing on electric guitar works and
yelling or talking about the devil etc....
Rap as I said is now the new generation's
language, especially in some countries people use it to talk about the
government, and the have been fights against it in some countries by the
government and it’s been banned by it. Rap has the flexibility for people to say
what they what to say
