Music, music, music

In class on Tuesday I learned that swing music has a lot of African American Influence in it. Duke Ellington, and Louis Armstrong are two of the greatest artist of all time not to mention of swing music. In the article "Black Noise" it talked and gave you a brief over over the history of rap and where it all came from. Run DMC is one of the most sucessful artist in rap history, he revolutionized rap. But the one thing i do not agree with is how she makes male rappers out as thugs and just gangsters, she makes it seem like there life is about drugs, sex, and killing people. When there is a story behind each song each rapper sings. Its just like any other song an artist may sing. People can say srcremo music is just about killing yourself when its really not. each type of music has its own still of lyrics.