{"id":92649,"date":"2017-04-27T07:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siccness.net\/wp\/?p=92649"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:08:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:08:32","slug":"new-study-shows-rap-music-is-the-genre-that-mentions-drugs-the-least","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/new-study-shows-rap-music-is-the-genre-that-mentions-drugs-the-least","title":{"rendered":"New Study Shows Rap Music Is The Genre That Mentions Drugs the Least"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since its rise in popularity in the late \u201980s, rap music has gotten a bum rap. For years, the complaints around rap have been fierce. They also haven\u2019t changed that much: the music is said to glorify\u00a0violence, drugs, misogyny, and a criminal lifestyle. Even fans of the music can be critical; how many times have we heard an older rap fan criticize young rappers who \u201cglorify\u201d<\/a> doing drugs?<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n
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A new study is fighting back at this narrative. Using data from Songmeanings<\/a> API,\u00a0Addictions.com did a study<\/a> analyzing what musical\u00a0genres mention drugs the most. It turns out it\u2019s country music, by far, that has the most\u00a0drug references in their music, followed by jazz, pop, electronic, and rock.<\/p>\n

Hip-hop music actually comes in last of the eight genres analyzed:<\/p>\n

\"Rap<\/p>\n

Even more interesting,\u00a0drug talk in music, in general, has plummeted. Spiking in the mid-aughts and dropping every year since.\u00a0\"Rap<\/p>\n

When looking at the artists\u00a0who talk about drugs the most, rappers dominate the list. California rap group Kottonmouth\u00a0Kings<\/strong> comes in at number one, followed by Eminem<\/strong>, The Game<\/strong>, Lil Wayne<\/strong>, and Jay Z<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Since its rise in popularity in the late \u201980s, rap music has gotten a bum rap. For years, the complaints around rap have been fierce. They also haven\u2019t changed that much: the music is said to glorify\u00a0violence, drugs, misogyny, and a criminal lifestyle. Even fans of the music can be critical; how many times have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2599],"class_list":["post-92649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siccness.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}