This article will reflect hip-hop and the music industry. It will take a look at the history of hip-hop. It will show how hip-hop was born and how the music has a huge influence in mainstream media. Urban America quickly caught the new wave of music and how a person's personal struggle in life and on the street. This will show how the media glorifies rappers and their celebrities to give a false view of the lifestyle. Hip Hop Music TodayEven before the words were spoken, there was music. There are many aspects of music and the main one is to make a person feel good and happy, it also tells a story and allows the person to relate to the artist. A good music source can allow you to escape certain tragedies or relationship problems such as a breakup. The crudeness and raucousness of the show echoed racist caricatures of the past and resurrected regressive portrayals of African Americans on television. Because African Americans have been at the forefront of hip-hop (rap) music. Def Comedy Jam was just another outlet for rap artists' freedom of expression. Hip-hop was aggressive and oppositional, a break from the traditional music of the past. All music has had its struggle to gain access to the public. Jazz, rock and roll, and hip-hop refused to be melodic, timely, and quiet. Rappers didn't have a band, they had a turntable; music was not about the skillful arrangement of instruments but the skillful production of sounds. When rap music included traditional melodies, it was most often compositions made by others, for example funk or R&B, borrowed from predecessors of black music such as James Brown. Most hip-hop music today is made up of more than just the "rap" music of the past. The most popular songs have a chorus, a catchy chorus that breaks up the rapped verses. But then as now, hip-hop music is about the manipulation of sounds, the layering of beats, bass lines, sound effects, the MC's voice, the melody of the chorus. ("The emergence of