Tricia Rose’s “The Hip Hop Wars” commences and entitles the first chapter as “Hip Hop Causes Violence.” Before furthering on with the chapter, one may intuitively develop a bias supposition that what is titled is based on an actual fact without having any valid evidence to prove why it is the way it is. Tricia Rose, whom is an author, a scholar, and a public speaker presented an argument stating “a key aspect of much of the criticism that has been leveled at hip hop is the claim that it glorifies, encourages, and thus causes violence (Hip Hop Wars, pg.34).” Although several critics may agree that hip hop promotes violence, Tricia Rose covers the significant aspects of the controversy whether hip-hop indeed causes violence.…
Hip-hop is important to millennial and generation z students because it is the type of music they grew up with. To them hip hop is more than drugs and violence but about learning to understand others stories and their own. I believe Hip Hop should be taught in our curriculum. In the article “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride shows how hip hop is worth listening to before you conform with all the preconceived notions . “I thought it was the most ridiculous thing I’d ever heard” (McBride 1).…
Hip hop consists mainly of black artist, and most of the time, black woman are featured in these videos. When black women are seen dancing in these videos, they could get a bad reputation and can be seen as almost something negative. Hip hop has almost made it okay for women to get negatively seen by society.…
Book Review The book called Hip-Hop Revolution The Culture and Politics of Rap by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar was a very informative, historical source for learning about the background of how hip hop came to be. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is an associate professor of history and director of the institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. With his skills, Jeffrey Ogbar writes a book that examines genders in hip hop, authenticity of hip hop, and races that had an influence on hip hop. The book goes into the historical side of things and it gives the reader words like minstrel, jezebel, Nigger Heaven, Black Power Movement, Black Panther Party, and many more.…
1) McBride argues about / describes / criticizes a nightmare that made him re-evaluate his perceptions of hip-hop he said here about the first paragraph where the nightmare gets deeper,because before he know it he heard the the pitter-patter of the little feet, their offspring,cascading through his living living room,cascading through his life,drowning him with the sound of his hypocrisy. 2)About the hip hop Mcbride said music seemingly without melody, sensibility,instruments,verse,or harmony,music with no beginning,end, or ,middle,music that doesn’t even seem to be music. 3)James McBride tells us his views on Hip Hop Rap and shows us how difficult it was for him to come to terms with this new music. James grew up in the Bronx, which…
Media Analysis: White Men Can’t Jump Race is an issue that many members of society face today, in particular those in a minority of their communities. Things such as everyday life, can in itself be conducted by one's ‘race’. This problem has been around ever since the idea of race was created and has been a constant source of conflict in modern society. 1992 brought us a movie released with the title: White Men Can’t Jump, the movie addresses race issues in sports. This is a story of a white ex college basketball player Billy Hoyle, who ‘hustles’ black players that underestimate his skills on the streets.…
On October 13, at the auditorium in Whitman College, I went to go see writer and civil rights activist Shaun King. Shaun King’s lecture surrounded Civil Rights and the Black Lives Matter movement. Shaun King brought up several intellectual philosophical questions to the audience, such as “If humans are getting steadily getting better than why are than why are there 102 unarmed African Americans killed last year?”, which he compared to 1902, when 102 African Americans were lynched. King described human’s progression life peaks and valleys on a line graph. King then brought a line graph that started out as an increase, then showed a dip, and then showed the line increasing again.…
In the poem, “Life Through My Eyes,” by Tupac and the article, Hip Hop’s History with Police Brutality,” by Stereo Williams both authors address violence in the black community. In Tupac’s poem, he writes, Poverty, murder, violence, never a moment to rest. In other words, Tupac is saying that there is always violence happening in his community. This shows how he believes that the black community can’t escape violence. In the article by Stereo Williams he writes, Beyonce issued a lengthy statement condemning police violence against black citizens (...)”…
The Black Power Mixtape is a historical documentary that shows footage shot by Swedish journalists who were examining the evolution of the Black Power Movement in America from 1967 to 1975. Their mission was to “[show] the country as it really is.” The documentary examines the movement year by year, highlighting important black leaders and historic events that have shaped our nation into what it is today. The footage they showed was very insightful. Interviews with black people living at the time showed their point of view in a way that textbooks cannot.…
Hip hop culture plays such a prominent role in our society. It is considered cool to smoke weed, have sex all the time and not pay attention to education. In one of Dr. Moore’s lecture, he said “hip hop sells black culture globally.” So what people buy is what people are going to make. Rob Peace was influenced by hip hop culture because he had that struggle with the typical druggie, surrounded by women, and fitting in image.…
The Role of Language in Bronx Leadership Academy The performance of an individual in an academic setting depends on a number of factors, including the location of the space, endemic socio-cultural groups, and student-instructor relationships. High school students ranging from 13-20 years old were observed and interviewed in Bronx, NY. This ethnography aims to explore how language influences teacher-student relationships and can, in turn, affect the motivation of students at Bronx Leadership Academy (BLA). The observed usage of slang, otherwise known as “Black English,” at BLA both inhibited and catalyzed the academic progression of students.…
I. The music is a diverse mix of modern Broadway music and rap music. A. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the musical and acted as Alexander Hamilton himself, felt that hip-hop and rap worked best for Hamilton’s life. 1. Each founding father has a different rap pattern and abinet meetings are performed through rap battles.…
When Shawn “Jay Z” Carter and Kanye West proclaimed their membership to the new black elite, they were being modest in their declaration because the Hip Hop echelon had arrived long before 2011. Many of them had not only accumulated a vast amount of wealth a decade prior, but took part in the shift in qualities that determined ones elite status. This alteration from the previous black elite during the fourth wave first emerged when the Hip Hop generation was born. It ultimately came full circle when black and brown youth in urban ghettos in New York united through privations and the fervent need to alter their grim futures.…
Sometimes, the music industry can be very tricky and very playful, relative to the highs and lows of fame that an artist can harness from the course of his or her career. We have seen one-hit wonders succumbed to the concept of oblivion and there are the fortunate ones who still managed to survive with their incessant names being on the hot stuff list. When an act died out of exhaustion or an artist’s spotlight dimmed, we thought that they may never come back, leaving us forlorn and dismayed by how their career went. We sometimes backtrack their songs, listening to how great they have been and we are then being contented to just replaying their musical geniuses over albums bought when they were famous. This concept might be a reality to the avid fans of A Tribe Called Quest, and the thirst for the hip-hop group is about to be vanquished by their latest comeback album.…
Hip Hop became really popular in the mid to late nineteen hundreds and still is very popular to this day. Hip Hop has developed an art that reflects culture as well as express social, political and economic situations in many peoples lives, especially the youth. Music started off with drumming. Through drumming, communities were able to communicate, and the use of drums was also utilized in ceremonies and rituals in African American lives. Drumming was the base of African music in the Diaspora.…