Abstract
Two years ago, Nas, one of the greatest American rapper, brought out a new album, titled ?Hip Hop is dead'. The title speaks for itself. Since the mid-90s, hip hop and rap have lost their values. In fact, hip hop qualifies a culture or a way of life including music, values and dressing codes and rap is the most exposed part of hip hop trend. Rapping has been a great success since the 70s, first in the American slums, and then all around the world. However, rapping is also quite controversial. The global opinion is quite divided: while a lot of people seem to adhere to the rap trend, some say that it's not music, others that it's only a way to make money, and others that it's so violent that it might be forbidden. The point is that there isn't one rapping style, but several ways to rap, so that you can broadcast several messages, make totally different things, under the tag of rapping. Let's have a short look to the original message rap wanted to broadcast.
