yet it is the voice of and for the people that influence political ideologies, awareness, and participation in politics. The book was readable and well organized, but however the book is not convincing because it is a style of research base upon experiment, content analysis, and observations. I feel as if geared more to a scholar audience and I would recommend this book to individuals who are interested in Hip-hop and want to find out more information. Overall the book was very knowledgeable and in some ways…
Society saw the genre, formally known as hip-hop, as being negative until a variety of races came together in New York to listen to this particular type of music. I believe that hip-hop can be being good or bad, but it is meant to tell a story. McBride writes, through hip-hop they were able to come together as a community “ The Bronx became a music magnet for Puerto Ricans, Jamaican, Dominicans, and Black Americans from the surrounding areas.” In New York the teens use what we call graffiti to express themselves. The graffiti shows the art aspect of hip-hop.…
In the article, the author states that Hip-Hop is changing from its current style, which artists like Drake controlled, and into a style that artists like Chief Keef can rule. Kodak Black and XXXTentacion are just two of many artists who have been treated as royalty even though they both have violent backgrounds. Kodak Black’s first album, Painting Pictures, debuted at #3 on the album chart and his hit song from the album “Tunnel Vision” produced even better numbers as it became certified double platinum. XXXTentacion, on the other hand, began…
Cathleen Rountree author of “In Defense of Hip-Hop” issued her article of the Santa Cruz Sentinel, May 19,2007. She believes that hip-hop shouldn’t be the scapegoat and blame of the violent acts that goes on. Her rhetorical tools such as evidence makes her argument very effective. It is not just negative music, without credibility never judge a book by its cover.…
In Simon Dumenco’s writing titled: “If We’re All So Sick of You, Facebook, Why Can’t We Quit You?” , Simon touches upon the fact that when people attempt to take a break from Facebook, Facebook sends them emails, trying to convince them to come back. He also explains how, originally, people felt required to make a Facebook, and now, people feel like they have to have the mobile app. Despite Simon having the opinion that people have difficulty escaping Facebook’s grasp, he also seems to imply that he thinks Facebook is a phase that will eventually die out, just like MySpace and AOL.…
Unquestionably we live in an advance-centralized world, the network has been in our lives from any aspect anyone can think of. It became a pivotal vehicle for our lives. From the help of the Internet hip-hop progressed into one of the utmost influential forces. The reason for this is that, contrasting any other ranges of music; hip-hop is entrenched in a larger power. The hip-hop genre is conceivably one of the most persistent and prevailing cultural forms as of now, it’s evidently different from other forms of culture because it arose inside and established in a discrete subgroup.…
To begin, in Tricia’s Rose’s Hip Hop Wars, the author goes into great detail about the current state of hip hop. From reading this book, one will see that Tricia feels worried about this new generation of hip hop. This can be seen when Rose states, “Hip hop is in a terrible crisis”…
In your essay, “Hip Hop Planet” you talk about hip hop and you express and discuss your negative and positive views on hip hop. I believe that you wrote this essay because of the nightmare you had, in which your daughter came home with a rapper telling you that they were going to get married. In your essay you state that the first time you heard rap it was the most ridiculous thing you had ever heard, but you also state that after 26 years of ignoring rap you had finally embraced it. You said you love the good of it and hate the bad of it. You wrote this essay to tell the world that hip hop is everywhere and some of us need to embrace it just as you did.…
Throughout history we’ve always had catalyst that changed the course of time. Whether it was good or bad, on purpose or on accident they created a movement. The top three most influential agents were Ice Cube, the birth control pill, and women’s suffrage. What ties these 3 are the stereotypes that were created for them and how they changed them. Hip hop emerged in the late 1970’s and was developed by the lower income districts, mainly within the African American and Hispanic communities (History of Hip Hop 1).…
Mansbach says, “Hip-hop moves so fast that new jams are outdated by the time the last snare snaps, but Hip-hop recycles everything, so it all evens out” (105). Hip-Hop in comparison evolves the same way. It never starts from scratch because to create Hip-hop people use a small segment of beat from other songs, and after all those pieces together you get a Hip-hop song. Muhammad says, “The personal values that my participant indicated were most reaffirmed through hip-hop culture” (426). Hip-hop as anything else is considered an experience.…
As explained through Jeff Chang’s book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop hip-hop developed out of gang communities and into a cultural movement. During its origins, music and graffiti and b-boying were for everyone: people of all different races participated in what Chang describes as a “virtuoso display of style” (Chang 118). It didn’t matter what race you were; it was the coming together and showcasing your own personal style, and during this time hip-hop was more easily shared between races because it was just about expressing yourself rather than expressing your people. Overtime, hip-hop became more politicized. Rappers began to be known as “journalists” and increasingly Black rappers became more popular as they were the ones showcasing their lives (Chang 328).…
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.…
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.…
As the movie continue you are able to see various scene that showed confrontation between the different racial groups one of the scene that stood out to me is when Buggin’ Out (Mookie’s friend) a character who is renown for speaking out his mind. Notices all the pictures at Sal’s pizzeria are of famous Italian. This angers him and he chooses to confront the owner (Sal). Since Sal is Italian is, he lets Buggin’out know that it is pizzeria and he can hang up whatever picture he chooses, but Buggin’ out demands that Sal puts up some black people on the wall due to the fact that the pizzeria is in a black neighbourhood but Sal refuses. This causes an altercation between the two of which end with Buggin’out threating to boycott Sal’s Pizzeria and…
The last two lines use repetition to drive the importance of hip hop home, saying, “Our freedom of speech is freedom or death/we got to fight the powers that be/” (Ridenhour et al 1). Here, repetition of the word freedom shows the whole point of making the hip hop music: to gain freedom in a system of social control that values certain races or social statuses over others. In the college educational system, many schools do not necessarily consider hip hop music to be educational. However, as evidenced in “Fight the Power”, hip hop music is not just a form of entertainment for a selected group of…