Hip-Hop is the leading genre in the modern music industry. There was a time that hip-hop was just a local music genre in the New York boroughs. An interest thing happened, a new dialect of English called black talk, or Ebonics came to the scene. The new dialect brought a new way to talk in every day talk across different backgrounds, especially in the youth. The effects can be seen today and specifically in hip-hop music.
To understand the hip-hop culture and the impact on pop culture, one has to look at the roots, the beginnings of hip-hop. The cradle of hip-hop came from the New York borough, especially in Harlem. Harlem, Brooklyn, Bronx, and other New York boroughs created hip-hop that would later become the leading music genre in the future. …show more content…
One of the earliest gangster rap artist took his time and talked about the state of Hip-hop at the moment was becoming too pop. In his new documentary, Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, shows the different styles of rap within the music genre and talks about the influences the MCs got for their own style. Most of the MCs interviewed talked about the importance of the past MCs who brought this music genre into the world and how are the most influential MCs because those MCs created the fundamentals of the art form. Ice-T further talks, “A lot of the great that helped this art form from scratch are still alive – Grandmaster Caz, Afrika Bambaataa – very powerful people who took gangbanging and turned it into hip-hop”. The MCs that Ice-T mentions are the some of the founders of the art form and should get more respect from the current hip-hop community. It relates with the author that people (especially the youth) sometimes don’t appreciate the art form or the dialect they are speaking because of the lack knowledge of the roots of Ebonics. Ebonics and Hip-Hop are connected to one another because of the usage of Ebonics in the …show more content…
So why not use this dialect in education for the African-American communities to help them understand subjects or compare to the Standard English. The usage of Ebonics in the classroom would help the students that talk the dialect at home, would help them academically because that is how the student would learn about subjects that before were difficult for them. Savan explained, “In December 1996, the Oakland, school board approved a resolution to change how it taught African American students who, the board said, spoke not a dialect of English but a separate, African-based language, Ebonics”. I’m in favor of the author for the reason is that Ebonics, or black talk, is the primary communications in the African-American communities. This dialect is spoken within the community that it would later be passed down to the next generations and it’s going to be the first dialect of English they would speak. It’s important to learn the Standard English since its being used by the majority of the people in the United States and also is more professional when trying to join the business/working force. Ebonics should be taught in schools as the same reason as Spanish speakers can take Spanish classes on certain subjects. But, at the same time they take classes in English to comprehend the language. The same should apply to the African-American language since it would benefit them in learning certain subjects, yet the black
To understand the hip-hop culture and the impact on pop culture, one has to look at the roots, the beginnings of hip-hop. The cradle of hip-hop came from the New York borough, especially in Harlem. Harlem, Brooklyn, Bronx, and other New York boroughs created hip-hop that would later become the leading music genre in the future. …show more content…
One of the earliest gangster rap artist took his time and talked about the state of Hip-hop at the moment was becoming too pop. In his new documentary, Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap, shows the different styles of rap within the music genre and talks about the influences the MCs got for their own style. Most of the MCs interviewed talked about the importance of the past MCs who brought this music genre into the world and how are the most influential MCs because those MCs created the fundamentals of the art form. Ice-T further talks, “A lot of the great that helped this art form from scratch are still alive – Grandmaster Caz, Afrika Bambaataa – very powerful people who took gangbanging and turned it into hip-hop”. The MCs that Ice-T mentions are the some of the founders of the art form and should get more respect from the current hip-hop community. It relates with the author that people (especially the youth) sometimes don’t appreciate the art form or the dialect they are speaking because of the lack knowledge of the roots of Ebonics. Ebonics and Hip-Hop are connected to one another because of the usage of Ebonics in the …show more content…
So why not use this dialect in education for the African-American communities to help them understand subjects or compare to the Standard English. The usage of Ebonics in the classroom would help the students that talk the dialect at home, would help them academically because that is how the student would learn about subjects that before were difficult for them. Savan explained, “In December 1996, the Oakland, school board approved a resolution to change how it taught African American students who, the board said, spoke not a dialect of English but a separate, African-based language, Ebonics”. I’m in favor of the author for the reason is that Ebonics, or black talk, is the primary communications in the African-American communities. This dialect is spoken within the community that it would later be passed down to the next generations and it’s going to be the first dialect of English they would speak. It’s important to learn the Standard English since its being used by the majority of the people in the United States and also is more professional when trying to join the business/working force. Ebonics should be taught in schools as the same reason as Spanish speakers can take Spanish classes on certain subjects. But, at the same time they take classes in English to comprehend the language. The same should apply to the African-American language since it would benefit them in learning certain subjects, yet the black