People today are more into music like Lil Wayne, Drake, 2Chainz and many more, but does it really make you stupid to listen to these artists' music? A website called, "Angry White Dude" (angrywhitedude.com) states, "Interesting that Beethoven is at the top of the list for intelligent people while Lil Wayne is most popular for mouthbreathing knuckledraggers." I do not believe this statement is true at all. The men and women that listen to Lil Wayne, or other rap artists, are so called knuckledraggers (a.k.a idiots). I know plenty of people that listen to rap and still are intelligent in every way possible. I even listen to rap music and I would like to think I'm not a knuckledragger. "Relationship between intelligence and rap music.....diction...wordplay...Literary Devices....i think there is a number of things you can tie together with Intelligence here..." This comment was left on yahoo answers about this same subject. It is obvious that rap has some form of intelligence in it. I mean if someone can rhyme lyrics together and say them without messing up then I would think you would have to be pretty smart to move your tongue fast and say all the words right. There is also the fact of wordplay and literary devices, some of us don't even know exactly what literary devices are. So I conclude that if you listen to rap music you will not become stupid, but it could be possible that you could have already been stupid to begin with. The point is no one should blame the music they are listening to on how smart or dumb they compared to others. They should take ownership for their intelligence or stupidity.
Many people think that rap is stupid, but it takes alot to create a good rap song. "Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me." This is a quote by Lil Wayne to all of the viewers that do not believe in him. Most people that say that rap makes you stupid are people that haven't given rap music a chance in the first place. Some rap is about sex and stuff like that but other rap is used for things like being against something or not agreeing with a statement or something like that. If people today would just give rap a chance I believe that they would enjoy it as much as the "knuckledraggers" have for many years. Rap is something that gets people ready for sports events and could also get someone ready for a serious event. It is not all fun and games some is serious and if you are a "hater" then just try to see it from our side that enjoys rap for music, not for the fact if it makes us stupid or smart.
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