In fact, most rap music from before 1985 is pretty safe: it wasn’t until the rise of West Coast “gangsta” rap in the late 1980s that profanity, sex and drugs worked their way into the lyrics. And in fact, the lyrics are socially conscious, shedding light on the oppressive conditions faced by the black community in the South Bronx in the 1970s.ĭespite rap's, um, bad rap, many early artists in the genre (and some performing today) are family-friendly - performing music that lacks swear words (for the most part) and the overt drug and sex references now associated with the genre. But after replaying the song in my head, I realized that, unlike most of the rap you hear on the radio today, there's nothing truly offensive in the song. When I saw the trailer for Happy Feet, I was surprised to see one of the little penguins burst out into the chorus of Grandmaster Flash's classic "The Message" - "Don't push me 'cause I'm close to the edge." I couldn’t imagine what a rap song like that was doing in a kids' movie.
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