Our generations’ music is frowned upon by older generations. They don’t like it because a lot of it promotes negative things including gang activities and violence. Because of that they don’t give our music a chance even though it’s not all like that. There are positive sides and positive people in today’s rap music. For example J. Cole said “Feeling sorry for the world cause ain’t no hope for the youth, well ain’t that the truth when all your role models either rapping or they hoop”. In my opinion he saying that these rappers and athletes shouldn’t be there only role models that they should look and recognize people from different professions instead of the person they’re seeing on the cover of their favorite magazine. That is a positive thing in music that I agree with, there are rappers out there that try to send a lot of messages to the youth and people my age, and you probably won’t here it because it’s not a mainstream artist or just a song that doesn’t get radio play. But instead they hear a chief keef song talking about shooting up your baby momma’s cousin and robbing your brother, then just say rap music is trash and it has no value. I don’t see how you can judge it if you don’t really listen to it because there are more and more songs I could quote and or name that aren’t negative at all. There is real meaning to some of it but again none of it is mainstream playing on the radio and is rarely spotlighted. Why? Because of the negative thug image rap music wants to maintain. Our generations’ music is frowned upon by older generations. They don’t like it because a lot of it promotes negative things including gang activities and violence. Because of that they don’t give our music a chance even though it’s not all like that. There are positive sides and positive people in today’s rap music. For example J. Cole said “Feeling sorry for the world cause ain’t no hope for the youth, we