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.…
Boyz N the hood (1991) directed by John Singleton explores the environment of South Central Los Angeles and reveals to the audience the living conditions of the citizens living there. For the three main characters Darren, Rick and Tre each of them had all gone through the same battle of the mind which is the challenge of living in the hood environment and their response to the living conditions. Through out the movie the way that this psychological battle was displayed by shot type, each characters decisions, and the temptations that are in that environment. The shot selection was important in showing the character’s conflict.…
In Jay MacLeod’s Ain’t No Makin’ It, lack of motivation and lack of opportunity limit two different groups of boys in the projects of Clarendon Heights: the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers. MacLeod observes these groups in his case study starting in the early 1980s when most of the boys were still in high school and through their adulthood. Starting in the early 2000s and continuing through today, STEM - science, technology, engineering, and math - education achieved popularity in the educational sphere because it is seen as a way to increase U.S. innovational output as well as create diversity in the white and Asian male dominant STEM career field by seeking inclusion of females, minorities, and lower socioeconomic youth in STEM education.…
"Boyz N the Hood" is depicted as an intense dramatization about experiencing childhood in Black Urban America. The film is situated around a gathering of youth companions experiencing childhood in a Los Angeles ghetto. This 1991 film compares to the 20th century; numerous youngsters who originate from ghetto neighborhoods are naturally put at a lower level than kids who are brought up in Suburban America. Experiencing childhood in Black Urban America prompts numerous youngsters being ignored and searched out to have a miserable future as opposed to coming to achievement.…
Boyz N the Hood is a tough, raw film. The sense of frustration and urgency expressed is so great that at times Singleton's characters seem to mount invisible soapboxes to address the audience directly and shake some sense into them. Judged from a strictly aesthetic viewpoint, these moments are flaws; in this film, paradoxically, they add to the overwhelming feeling of real life and direct witness. Singleton quietly observes that “films serve different purposes, some are meant just to entertain, but there's also room for other films that inform as…
Rapper Tyga has a problem with 18-year-old girlfriend, Kylie Jenner, and he knows just how to get back at her. Numerous outlets report that Kylie and Tyga's frequently public displays of affection via Snapchat are all for show. Anonymous sources claim that Kylie and Tyga have been bickering for weeks. Apparently Tyga's biggest issue is Kylie's obsessive need to document every part of her life on social media. Tyga and Kylie's arguments spilled onto social media on Monday, with she posted a series of Snapchats of Tyga.…
Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta season five is a reality television show that is known to be exposed and unfiltered. It films the lives of some well- known celebrities and some who are trying to make it in the business. Love & Hip-Hop Atlanta has about 20 to 30 different cast members. It varies form one season to the next. Some cast members will be on the show and the next season their not.…
This was their first album under a record label that they created themselves so this is what happened to get there. The style of hip-hop prior to N.W.A was vastly different as what they rapped about wasn’t always about the streets. No one spoke up about living in poverty and witnessing or even engaging in gang violence but they instead spoke about the party life because that was what was sold to vast majority of the audience. When more artists who talked about their life as they see it instead of partying all the time, the audience started to shift towards those “gangsta” rappers and they made those artists who they were still in their golden age. An article that discusses about music in America states that “harshness of inner-city life.…
Bad Boy Entertainment’s origin run deep with Sean ‘Puff Daddy’ Combs as the head for 22-years of rap-oriented music. Sony music announced today--on October 5, 2015--that there is an exclusive partnership, which includes two forthcoming albums by Puff Daddy. Harve Pierre--who has been along with Bad Boy Entertainment since its inception in 1993--is included in this venture. This agreement is affecting the Bad Boy artists by covering labeling services (i.e. the four Ps (price, promotion, place, and packaging)). L.A. Reid--chairman and CEO of the Sony Music label--mentioned in a previous statement that he and ‘Diddy’ Combs have been collaborating about music since the 1990s.…
Movie Essay Anger, hostility, and control are the main elements in the movie I watched “Gangs of New York”. Even though the film was very complex to understand there were some connections from what was learned in class from lecture 19 mostly, that the film represents. The setting of the movie takes place in the 1860’s of New York. This film connects with lecture 19 “The Antebellum North” because what is being discussed in that chapter is how the Irish migrate to America due to the potato famine to begin a new life.…
“Boyz N The Hood” is a 1991 American crime drama film by John Singleton and starring Ice Cube, Morris Chestnut, Cuba Gooding Jr, and Laurence Fishburne. The storyline revolves around a group of three young male adults raised in the Crenshaw slums of Los Angeles and details the various difficulties that they face in their daily lives as they try to make in life despite being from the ghetto. The themes of race, violence, love, and future prospects are prevalent throughout the film, and Singleton explores the issues raised by each of them. This paper analyzes the social problems raised by the themes of race, crime and violence, future prospects, as well as love and relationships. John Singleton sheds light on the some of the major social problems…
Research Paper Over the past forty years, hip-hop has emerged as one of the biggest contributors to American culture. American youth today use hip-hop music to voice the social, political, economic, and cultural conditions in their lives. Hip-hop today also reflects its origin from working-class African-Americans in New York City, and continues to serve as the voice of these people. As the popularity of hip-hop has grown, its marketability has also risen.…
Rapper/actor 50 Cent is ordered to pay $5 million in sex-tape invasion-of-privacy lawsuit filed by Lastonia Leviston. Fox 411, July 12, 215 reported 50 Cent put a sex-tape online of and her boyfriend without permission. He added himself as the commentator. However, the $5 million fine may not be all for 50 Cent. The jurors are deliberating next week on further charges.…
Rap music and Deviant Behavior in Teens Rap music is based on “African tradition of speaking rhythmically to a beat that is generally supplied by background music.” In the 80s, a rapper by the name of Grandmaster Flash would rap about “deplorable conditions of the inner cities” in order to bring attention to them. Gangsta rap is based on Grandmaster Flash’s song The Message because it raps about the conditions of poor communities. Gangsta rap are usually about police brutality towards youth in inner cities, the violence that are committed in communities where the artists are from, drugs and alcohol abuse, educational inequality. Since the early 1990s Rap music pacifically gangsta rap have become popular with teens and young adults because rap music sings about world problems that these teens and young adults face, in addition to that, the rap music is also about glamour and being rich which the teens fantasy about.…
Boyz N the Hood is a movie which was released in 1991 and is about teens growing up in the inner city of Los Angeles. Reva, the mother of Tre Styles, sends Tre to live with his father because of some trouble he got into at school. Reva wanted Tre’s father, Furious Styles, to teach him about life and being a man in hopes to protect her son from the streets. While growing up living with his father Tre reunites with his friends “Doughboy”, Ricky, and Chris. Doughboy is in a gang called the “Crips” and was recently released from jail with Chris.…