Representation of Social Problems in Iranian Social Rap Music Case Study: Songtexts by Yas

In the arena of Universal contemporary art, Underground music is a field to express thoughts of singers of this style of music. This discourse includes different types of protest to love and hate. The text of this kind of music's are emanating from thoughts and beliefs of its singers and their thoughts are formed in terms of their social base. The main purpose of this study is the reflection of social problems in texts of Yas songs who is a well-known Persian social rapper. The approach is based on the idea that art always is a reflection of what society tells us. Given the assumptions of this approach as one of the important approaches in the sociology of art, it was used to check the above object. The research method is qualitative and a total 23 texts of songs including social issues with highest frequency of downloading are selected as research sample which all of them are available. Findings show that selected texts from songs of Yas reflect eleven social problems such as poverty, addiction, divorce, prostitution, unemployment, street children, suicide, gangs and anti-social, burglary and theft, betrayal and spread of abnormal moods in the society. More themes in analysis of texts were symbols to express ideas and concerns and problems and concerns of society members, especially deprived people.