Hiphop, is it good or bad ?
There are many things that have a positive influence in the hiphop culture. The children have someone to look up to and they can set a goal to some day become someone like them, a person with a really good self-esteem. But in many cases also drugs, alcohol and weapons are involved in the "game". It’s not so unusual in Sweden but it’s a major problem in the United States of America. Many many people die cus of being involved in a gang, where they start to use drugs and they probably do things that they will regret the next day. For the United States of America and all other countries where hiphop is a big culture, the hip hop has become more than just a music, and today there is nothing that can stop the hiphip from growing any bigger.

Swedish rappers

	Petter(picture) is the king of Sweden in hip-hop he is the first hip-hoper that really went through with his albums. He is rapping about his life and things he went through. He wants people to understand what he is rapping about and he does it in a way that no other rappers are enable to do.
In my opinion there are no other Swedes that can rap the way Petter does. Rappers had a hard time breaking through in the early nineties because the Swedish people thought of the American hip hoppers and connected it to the violence with guns and narcotics. But it was not until the Swedish group "Just D" was created with their "accepted" music as the hip hop become big.

Hiphop a culture and a lifestyle
You can recognize a hip hopper from a very long distance because of the baggy clothes they are wearing. Thousands of hip-hop clothes are sold every day and that tells you how big the music style is. The culture is also very big. In the end of the eighties noone really knew what hiphop was, so you can say that Petter and Just D from made the revolution true in Sweden when they camed out with there first albums. We are starting to look more and more like the United States of America for every day that goes by. I can’t really find an answer of why it really is that way, but Petter and Just D was absolutely the ones that started to revolute the culture.

The message
Almost every hip hoper has a message in the song. It can be about an important event that they want to share, or it can be a message to young kids to stay away from all bad things like guns, drugs etc. And it’s like everybody is listening with wide ears when they hear the music’s message. People try to live up to the message, they want to cross all goals in their life and become a better person. And every hiphoper heve a message in there songs, they rapping about there life and the problem that they experiensed in there lifes. They want the people to understand what they are talking about when they are up there in the stage and rapping about the problems out there.