The move speaks to race, ethnicity, and sociology because Dre and mom represented a common stereotype that African American families are "broken" in a sense and do not consist of having the presence of the father. Furthermore, the home Dre and his mother came from, which was in West Detroit, signifies the low-income and rundown stereotype many African Americans are thought to perceive. Another stereotype that was portrayed in the movie was that all Asians are martial artists. For instance, the whole group of boys in Cheng's entourage were experts in martial arts. They were also portrayed as being skilled in parkour as depicted in the chase scene.…
LL Cool J LL Cool J can be imitated but cannot be duplicated. I want to know how he did achieve such a feat of reinventing himself from the 80’s B-boying and MCing into an actor and fashion icon when most of his peers from back in the day are still stuck on that same talent they discovered. LL Cool J which is the short for Ladies Love Cool James was born January 14, 1968 with the name James Todd Smith. He is an American hip hop recording artist and actor from Queens, New York. LL Cool J is also known as one of the forefathers of pop rap.…
I think Malcolm X is the most convincing and well-developed in his point. I think because of his good use of ethos, logos, and pathos to make his point come across. He starts with ethos to solidly prove he even has a right to fight against this cause by showing that he goes through this struggle stating “We’re all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.” When he says “Why, if birth made you American, you wouldn’t need any legislation... They don’t have to pass civil-rights legislation to make a Polack an American.”…
In N. R. Kleinfield’s essay, “Guarding the Borders of the Hip Hop Nation”, Elliott Wilson, was put to a trail if he will accept a job at XXL magazine which came with excellent pay low six figures. But talk of racial tension stained that will betray his people, or to be broke and file for bankruptcy which he did. When he said “We have a short expectancy in life” (Kleinfield 65). It means we don’t know what will happen in the next minuet, he could be shout or killed.…
Former rap mogul Suge Knight may have just lost his best hope at freedom. Billboard reports that Suge Knight recently hired former prosecutor Stephen L. Schwartz to represent him in a murder case. Schwartz is the fifth attorney to take on Marion "Suge" Knight's murder case. He replaced Thomas Mesereau who famously secured an acquittal for Michael Jackson on 2005 child molestation charges. Reportedly, Mesereau declined to provide a reason for his departure.…
When Anthony Elonis’s wife divorced him and left with their kids, he began to write and produce songs to express how he felt about what he was going through. He wrote,“There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you… I’m not going to rest until your body is a mess soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts.” Elonis was doing what many people do when they are going through a tough time, finding a safe outlet such as writing.…
On May 24, 1924 at the age of 75, Duke Ellington died of lung cancer and Pneumonia. His last words were “Music is how I live, why I live and how I will be remembered.” There were more than 12,000 people attended his Funeral. Duke Ellington was considered one of the greatest jazz composers of all time he was a American pianist who was also a great bandleader.…
In the 1960s, the philosophy of Malcolm X was more practical than Martin Luther King’s ideology because it did not depend as heavily on the shift of the ideas of the white populous. Although Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. both advocated for equal rights for African Americans, their ideas of how to accomplish this goal, including the goal itself, varied (Document 1). Malcolm X grew up through foster homes and dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen and after he became involved with illegal activities in New York, he was arrested. In jail, he found himself inside of the Muslim religion and walked out a changed man and began to advocate for equal rights.…
Have you ever wanted the same rights as someone else? Malcolm X wanted equal rights with whites, but the nonviolent way didn’t work for him. Martin Luther King wanted nonviolence and to integrate with whites. They both made a big impact on the Civil Rights Movement. Which path would you pick?…
Love’s Executioner Irvin Yalom, the author of Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, is a book about ten different clients and their stories. In each chapter, Yalom discusses the time spent with each client in therapy. He uses this book to give people an insight into what he faced as a therapist. My purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the theories he used throughout the book, and point out a few of the times each theory was used.…
Four bullets, enough to pierce the hearts of millions, but not enough to rupture the reverberating ramification Tupac Shakur left behind. On September 7, 1996, Shakur was leaving a boxing match only to find himself fatally caught up in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas. Hurried to a nearby hospital, Shakur was in a serious state of haemorrhaging; his mother Afeni Shakur pleaded the doctor to stop operating after blood loss became too severe. Six days later, he was declared dead after being diagnosed with respiratory failure and cardiopulmonary arrest, at only 25 years-old.…
In the song “The Blacker the Berry” by Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick seems to be showing his anger and frustration towards white people. He also takes a stand protecting his roots because he feels like it’s being taken away from him. Kendrick states some stereotypes that white people have placed on African-Americans and the friendship that the whites and and African-Americans now have. There is a lot emphasis on the fact that even though they are in a free and equal country, equality is still not there.…
This essay will be mainly based off the scientific aspect of the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls. Before I start talking about the muders, I am going to talk about scientific aspects of crimes. For different types of crimes such as: murders, drug deals, accidents, etc., science plays a very important role in all crimes. For crimes such as murder, science is the main thing they have to use to figure out what really happened. This type of science is called forensic science, and this is what the investogators use to figure out: why, where, when, and how the crime took place.…
20101037 PSY216/A Theories of Personality Study on Personality In this study I will examine the personality of Eminem who is a well-known American rap singer who is perceived as an aggressive by people all around the world. By focusing on his childhood development I aimed to achieve that his personality was greatly influenced and consisted by his childhood conflicts, and traumatic life events. Even if he was raised by a neglected parenting style by his mother and felt bullied among his peers; however, Eminem rose above them. Then he became the best-selling artist of the world.…
"Hip-hop is not the problem. Our reality is the problem of the situation,” This is said by Kendrick Lamar in response to a criticism statement about To Pimp A Butterfly and hip-hop in general. On March 15 of 2015 Kendrick Lamar released To Pimp A Butterfly. This album is a record that stands musically and lyrically. The album is depth and it takes thorough listening to grasp what Lamar is saying.…