The Widespread Popularity of Hip-hop music.

The first hip-hop artists began their trade in humble beginnings, but as the 80's wore on the genre enjoyed widespread popularity across the US. One reason for all this is that, at that time the performers lyrics were particularly aggressive towards society [ Police, The Government even the FBI]. This was essentially a voice for millions of citizens across the US who had struggled with racism and all the problems that are faced with that. So pretty much, they were buying and listening to these songs to protest against the people running the show. This made artists such as Public Enemy[who's best known song is 'Fight The Power' who's music video includes the group marching around New York City with black protestors] and NWA[who had a hit with 'F*** Da Police']. Both of these songs were used to relieve the tension of black Americans into now thinking they could do something about these issues. Perhaps another reason for the popularity boom during the 1980's would be, because racism had begun to cease, black culture had begun to come into perspective. Hip-hop was the main genre of music listened to by the black community in America. Also, because of the lyrics of these songs resulted in violent protest, white citizens began to take notice and hip-hop music was soon being heard all over America.