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For the Love of Rap

For the Love of Rap

I have a confession to make, I love rap. I am not talking about socially-accepted, respectable hip hop like Mos Def or Nas. I'm talking about gritty, derogatory, southern rap music like 2Chainz, Rich Homie Quan, or Young Jeezy. Up until recently, however, I never really thought about why I loved this kind of music. I couldn't exactly relate to the subject matter; drug dealing, jail, weapons, gangs, and materialism, so then why on Earth was I so drawn to this particular genre?