https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opK67XdRmks skip to about 3:17. Thats the worst case scenario of rap. However, songs like this only make up half of rap right now. Then you have rappers like Kendrick Lamar who tells a story about overcoming the ghetto and succeeding. All genres have themes strongly related to sex,drugs,etc. but also have positive themes as well.
And there’s Yelawolf (who I listen to):
http://youtu.be/fgdpLjdcWR0
@lje62 haha I love Cold War Kids!
“Only” by Nicki Minaj
Yo, I never fed Wayne, I never fed Drake
On my life, man, f***‘s sake
If I did I’d Minaj wid’ him and let 'em eat my [butt] like a cupcake
This is explicit, I will admit, but I’m not recoiling in horror. We’re currently in the butt era in entertainment. "
No, YOU may be currently in the “butt era.” I am not. And GMT is right, there is absolutely no comparison between clever innuendos and suggestion and over-the-top vulgarities.
Hopefully this correction makes it a bit easier for some. Don’t want to insight an outrage!
“There’s a fixation on butts going on in the entertainment industry. Some have said it’s the era of the booty.”
And it looks like you agree with me - “clever innuendos” are one thing and “explicit wording” is another. But if you disagree with me and believe I have said otherwise, feel free to point it out. 
Those songs are edited for the radio and albums are sold in clean(er) versions if you want them. If you don’t want your 10 year old to be singing it don’t buy it for her or allow her to have unsupervised screen time.
^ Teehee. Buy your child the Kidz Bop version. 
Needing to edit large chunks of it for publlic consumption, points to the intrinsic unartfulness of the original version.
Or listen to other things and teach your kid how to become a discerning listener. Chaperone their concerts.
You get to go to some things that you could have lived without but also some pretty great stuff.
I am not arguing for the fabulousness of the most course lyrics. I am arguing that those are not representative of the genre and that there is a lot of rap that IS artful and not depraved. If you are exposing your kids to the worst of it then that’s a different issue. I have no answer for that.
Shoot there’s even Christian rap. Heard of Lecrae?
There’s such a variety.
I’ll stick with dueling pianos
While I mostly listen to things in the rock genre, I do enjoy hip hop. Kendrick Lamar’s latest album is genius. Love most of what Kanye has released, also NWA, Common, Public Enemy, Tupac, Biggie and Eminem. I definitely prefer the more political and social justice related songs.
I find that I can appreciate most every genre, even country, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Sturgill Simpson, Zac Brown Band are some artists I enjoy.
When he was about 9, my son decided he was a rap music fan.
I don’t care about the style of music, but he was NOT listening to anything with lyrics I would not choose to hear in the car.
I did some homework and found some great stuff by Will Smith. All positive messages, but in a rap style.
I don’t know how much has changed in the 8 years since then, but it was a great compromise.
Just because there is a fixation on butts in the entertainment industry doesn’t mean I have to pretend that crass songs about booty and explicit sexual references need to be the mainstay. I mean, Sir Mixalot was fun and all and that’s a fun song to enjoy but that doesn’t mean I want a steady diet of things that are far more vulgar.
There’s so much more to human emotion and intimacy than “stick my x in your y.”
These aren’t artists who will stand the test of time anyway for the most part.
This really has very little to do with fearing my hypothetical 10 yo would sing these songs. This is just junk food music. There’s a lot of young talent on the radio already - artists like Ed Sheeran and Hozier - who have musicality and depth and tell stories beyond “looky, I know the mechanics of sex.”
Vladenschutte - very interesting. Started out promising (I’m sure these people hire studio musicians) but ugh, just that repetitive drone sounding rap combined with a redneck yee-haw gun-totin’ message - no, just no. If you like it, enjoy. I prefer actual melodies and harmonies.
I was just posting it as a response to “Rap is all just vulgar gangsters rapping about sex and drugs.”
Well, rapping about guns isn’t really much better.
It’s not about guns.