About ConsciousRap.org

This website is a multimedia showcase of conscious rap music videos from three decades of hip hop.

Today, hip hop music has become mainstream, with most of it unfortunately glorifying negative values such as crime, violence, materialism, misoginy.

The roots of rap, however, contained meaningful, positive, socially aware, political or educational messages.

Now, the media promotes primarly gangsta rap. This leads to the young audience taking studio gangsters as a model, or to people dismissing rap as a whole becase of commercial artists' negativity.

Conscious rap tracks have become more rare, and while they are still being made, their audience is largely underground.