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.…
Rapper Jay Z was born Shawn Corey Carter on December 4, 1969, in Brooklyn, New York. "He was the last of my four children," Jay Z's mother, Gloria Carter, later recalled, "the only one who didn't give me any pain when I gave birth to him, and that's how I knew he was a special child." His father, Adnes Reeves, left the family when Jay Z was only 11 years old. The young rapper was raised by his mother in Brooklyn's drug-infested Marcy Projects. During a rough adolescence, detailed in many of his autobiographical songs, Shawn Carter dealt drugs and flirted with gun violence.…
In his essay, The Hip Hop Nation. Whose is it? In the End, Black Men Must Lead, Toure defines the complexity and selectivity that associated with the hip hop nation. I like his writing style, in the begging of his essay when he said that no map maker would respect this nation because it has no fixed boundaries, no physical land, no single chief, and no exact date of origin. Rather, hip hop nation is a state of mind.…
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.…
I believe that hip hop brings about awareness and warns the world of its societal ills that needs to be addressed and cured. The quote from Burning Man states that hip hop is a "...pairing of word and music the manifestation of the painful journey of slaves who survived the middle passage. " Hip Hop has been traced back to West African culture, where songs of the West African storytellers were spoken with the accompaniment of the drum and a dance. This was a way that the African American slaves could communicate their agony and sorrow to the world.…
Experiencing the dance life was one of my favorite of all time. Dancing in the auditorium stage hearing the applause and my parents yelling my name was a dream come true. Unfortunately that dream did not last long. Why? I got a job after my sophomore year.…
Hip-hop is a genre of music associated with rap and others that conveys more a serious or upbeat tone about real life situations or personas. Hip-hop shows portray feeling and emotions towards a way of life or people and can be taken just as a song to dance to while also another person has taken it as a certain message to them or their feelings and beliefs. Myself, I grew up listening to Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre in the back of my dad's car. But as just a child I didn't think much of it but as bad words, I wasn't allowed to say out loud or I would be in a world of trouble, which in all honestly I was constantly. But as I grew up and matured more I was able to understand the songs more…
Hip Hop started out in the 1970’s as a form of “cultural movement” for African-Americans in New York City. “Hip Hop consists of a stylized…
For many decades, there has been the connotation that “rappers want to be athletes, athletes want to be rappers” (Stoute 150). We’ve seen the intermingling of the two professions from the early 90s when Shaquille O’Neal started rapping (Joseph, Revisiting Shaquille). Others, like Kobe Bryant and Allen Iverson, also hopped on the bandwagon early. Now, there are much more serious attempts by those of Louis Williams and Damian Lillard. On the other side, we have seen numerous hip-hop artists show their love for sports.…
Music is known to be part of the popular culture which reflects cultural and social changes in a society. Rap is a genre of music that has significantly changed throughout the years. Rap was once a genre dominated mostly by African American artists. When looking through Billboard’s “10 best Rappers of all Times,” the skin color seems to be all black until there is a white male named …. ,…
This paper will discuss how hip-hop has managed to grow from being a subculture in the South Bronx, to being common in almost every country around the world. Hip hop is usually seen as a genre of music instead of a culture. The culture that is hip hop is made up of the four components: DJing,…
When we pick up our favorite magazine to read, do the images stand out in an influential or even impactful way? At first, the pictures don’t have any meaning to us, but it can be said they have a significant effect on how individuals dress and even act. It is in the issue of VIBE magazine from December 1994 to January 1995 that we see this work in an interesting way for those immersed in the culture of Hip-Hop: African-Americans. The images here appeal to both African-American men and women in a way that idealized the adult life of celebrities and even pushed for the unity of all African-Americans, just as Afrika Bambaataa spoke of with his famous Zulu Nation. The first thing that becomes apparent when reading the magazine is the constant…
I know how rap gets a bad name cause of rap today but what do you think of rap??? Personally my opinion is how did rap get this bad. To be honest I love listening to older rappers like 2Pac, Eazy E, and Biggie but now …. we got rappers like Young Thug, and Lil Wayne. And they produce some pretty dry stuff.…
we know now, there are differences between rap and electro music. Therefore we cannot consider them as the same type of music. The rap looks more original than electro music. While the rhythms of electronic music seems more complicated than rap. They both have different messages and different emotional effects on a human soul.…
Whether it be from the Classical Period, or the Romantic Era, music has been a massive part of everyday life for citizens around the world, and ever since the twenty first century, over ninety-seven million songs of all different cultures and languages have been recorded. Such a large amount of various sounds, instruments, and lyrics, makes one wonder why producers have decided to invest so much of their effort into what may seem to be only noise. However, music has taken the world by swarm ever since medieval times, and has roots leading to eras as old as the prehistoric. Music of any genre creates a mood for the listener to immerse themselves in, yet music also has the effect of displaying a message to those who indulge in its lovely beats and lyrics. The messages conveyed by music usually tends to be woven into more simple lyrics in order to create a more mellow mood, and remove the harsh tones coming from more direct phrase.…