Renaissance vs. Rap Everything is relative. In the latter part of the 15th century, there began a cultural revolution known as the Renaissance. This artistic rebirth changed the way people lived and thought for the next century and a half. In the last decades of the 20th century, a new voice in music has arisen. This voice called Rap represents the cries that emanate from the urban areas of Western civilization. Superficially, no comparisons can …showed first 75 words of 473 total…

…showed last 75 words of 473 total…purpose, providing a way to rise above the racial complications that America presents. Other similarities rest in the aftermath of these occurrences. The Renaissance gave birth to music as seen presently just as Rap as given birth to brand new genres of music and new ways of musical thinking. Upon close examination, Rap is actually a mini-renaissance in its own right. Expressing a new form of chant, tying African Americans back to their ancestral roots.