What is hip hop? Hip Hop is a style of popular music of United States African American and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. Hip hop music in 2018 is still very popular in the United States by both men and women and diverse cultures. In the article “Fly-Girls, Bitches and Hoes” by Joan Morgan she quotes rap lyrics from the Notorious B.I.G.’s platinum album “Ready to Die”, scenarios and statistics relating to black on black crime and her mother’s words of wisdom to develop the argument that hip hop and feminism aren’t at war; however, she believes the African American community is at war with rap music. In Morgan’s article she mentioned there has always been sexism in hip hop…
Over the years, it has evolved into what we know as hip hop today with rhyming, verbal dueling, plot line, etc. Amiri Baraka was known for laying the foundation of rap in society after his performance, which included screams, cries, stomps, etc. The Last Poets (known as the first rap group) were inspired by the art aspect of hip hop, since black nat. Question #17: Summary of the HIP-HOP planet :-The main aspects of hip hop that make the style would be passion and expression of emotion. It is a good thing to have some skills like technique but the only way the movements develop are by believing in yourself and feeling the emotion as well as having fun and feeling the beat.…
Urban hip-hop culture started in the mid 1970s as the originate and public expressions within spray painting composing, deejaying, break moving, and rap music - of dark and Latino youth in the discouraged South Bronx, and the development has since developed into an overall social wonder that penetrates practically every part of society, from the way of dressing to overall language. Although, hip-hop has been abused in through the young black female ladies who later became available to promote a voice towards the hip…
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…
You can take the man out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of the man. Hip hop began in Brooklyn and at first had the message of getting out of gangs and not getting into conflicts with the law. Now hip hop is everywhere and has a message of defiance. Hip hop has completely changed from how it was, but that doesn't changes the impact that it made. Hip hop started as a way to pass time, and for people to take their experiences to make something inspirational and positive out of them.…
I started listening to hip-hop when I was transitioning into the 6th grade. It is a form of music, defined as stylized rhythmic music commonly accompanied by rap (merriam-webster). Hip hop involves rhyming of words and phrases into a verse. Verses are usually followed by a hook or chorus, like in most music genres. It is one of the top genres of music listened to among the youths of the U.S. I may listen to hip-hop, but I’m fairly new to rappers that have introduced themselves into the rap game over the recent years.…
After drumming, many other music styles started developing throughout Africa and then expanding around the world. Hip Hop is a music style from African American descent that has broadened universally over the years and brought many new customs into society…
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…
Rap music, also called hip hop music, is one of the biggest music genres there is. From different artists, songs, beats, and labels, also makes it have a lot of variety, and people like that. Rap is a song full of rhymes. It was originated in the united states in the 1970’s. It consisted of stylized rhythmic music.…
Hip-hop is a historically black genre of music, with different iterations almost everywhere in the world now. If you turn on your car radio on the way to work it’s likely that you’ll hear a popular hip-hop song. You may even come across street performers having a rap battle. Either way, it’s one of the most common genres today. Hip-hop is a genre dedicated to telling stories of hardship in a poetic form.…
Hip Hop music is one of the most listened to genres of today. It’s been around for many years, slowly evolving over time. When most hear the words Hip Hop, they automatically assume plain rap music. Just like any other genre of music, Hip Hop can be split up into many different sub genre for example, Trap music, Gangsta rap and lastly Old School Hip Hop. Starting from the oldest sub genre, Old School Hip Hop is the rap sound you hear before the 2000 era.…
Music has always been used by the voiceless, especially those in the African American community, as a tool that will pave the way to their representation in a community that is shunning them out and neglecting their issues and concerns. According to Lakeyta Bonnette, a Political Science professor at Georgia State University, if a person is trying to gain an understanding of the struggles and issues that are encountered by the African American community one should study the various forms of music in their community. She specifically indicates that “Culture, especially black music, historically, has been a resistance mechanism that Blacks utilized to assert their visibility in arenas in which majority of the players deemed them invisible.” (Bonnette).…
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,…
Music shows a perspective of the world through the voices of musicians and lovers of music. Hip Hop is a musical genre and a social movement. The movement started in the 1970s which was originated from urban areas on the east coast and from African Americans. The hip hop culture is made up of music, dance, artwork, language, and or fashion. ” The West Coast was the first area to expand hip-hop beyond the East Coast.…
Rap actually stands for rhythm and poetry, which shows that rap is a form of art. Many people do not even consider rap as music, but rap is music it 's one of the more popular music genres of today. Today 's rap game is really popular with fast tempo and more of a pop sounding lyrics compared to the 1980 's gangsta rap, with today 's artist like Drake, Childish Gambino, and Kendrick Lamar. Today 's rap game is much different then the rap game from before the 2000 's, today it is more of the look and media version of performers. Before the 2000 's the rap game all that mattered was your Street CRED.…