The existence of a thing means that it has some rationality. Not everyone likes to eat canned herrings, and not everyone hates mustard. Rap is a part of hip-hop culture. It is a foreign culture. It is an outlet for African Americans to express their dissatisfaction with this society, the cruel reality, and their lives. So if you look at foreign rap songs, they are full of pornography, violence, and drugs. For Chinese people with more traditional ideas, they really don’t like the lyrics.

This was the case when rap was first introduced to China, so it has been living underground in its first few years and even now. It has been rejected by the public, and the government is also guiding it to develop in a good direction. Although the lyrics are vulgar, they show the lives of the people at the bottom of this society; the singing method is different from that of popular songs; and the simple accompaniment also makes it popular among the masses. But if a foreign culture wants to take root in the local area, it must be integrated with the local culture. The same is true for rap. Compared with European and American rap, current Chinese rap has a lot less violence and more humaneness, such as Beijing rap.

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Hip-hop music has been growing stumblingly since its development. Until now, it has spread all over the world, and we can all feel its influence. Despite this, few people are willing to spend more time to fully understand it. In Taiwan, many people believe that "gangs" occupy an important part of hip-hop culture. In fact, this is not difficult to understand, because many media information give us such a message, even in the United States. The same is true.