Hip Hop Music May Have More to it Than Meets the Eye!

Hip Hop Music, hate it or love it it is a force to be reckoned with and it is here to stay as a cutting edge pop cultural staple. I know that there are the detractors that hate the entire genre of music like it is poisonous and see little or no social value in the loud and often obnoxious sounding songs. They hear the bass bumping up and down the street and they roll their eyes and look down their noses at the "kids" that are bobbing their heads and snapping their fingers as they sing along to their favorite hip-hop artists. However before you trash the entire genre of music have you considered this: Hip hop music if it has done nothing else, has improved and increased the linguistics and the vocabulary of the youths that listen to it.

You know that many kids with linguistic or even learning disabilities do listen to music, all kids listen to music. If you have children or if you know any you also know that they can recite backwards and forwards the lyrics to any of their favorite songs at the drop of a hat. Well take a look at the words to the popular song, no not just the curse words! Hip-hop is the only genre of music in which I have ever heard the word Paraplegic. Not only did Afroman integrate this word with the proper diction and pronounciation, but he also inserted it at the end of a line so he also had to find syllables that rhymed in meter with Paraplegic in his song "Because I got High". Did you also realize that the term "Bling bling" has been added to the new Merriam-Webster dictionary, thus making it a legitimate word/term.