Based on a thorough review of the literature, it is widely suggested that today’s influence of Hip Hop is what influences media and entertainment such as pop music, film and fashion. All of which are major forces that transfers culture to today’s youth. Thus, the significance of this literature review is that it will present the primary concepts and themes that are relevant to how hip hop effects politics, why hip hop has such a big part on today’s fashion and also how hip hop is about expression. Specifically, this literature review will present the following themes: fashion, politics and cultural value. One primary finding of this literature review is that hip hop brought people together, rather than find what we have different. Hip hop
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A huge problem these days is that you’re generation millions of dollars for a brand and for them not to compensate or even say thank you is a huge slap in the face. For example, Run DMC, famously known for their love of Adidas shoes, wrote many records that pertain to the shoe. Only to bring more customers and money to the multimillion dollar company still around today. Back then they had terrible sells and randomly started to see an increase of purchase in the states. During an interview, one of the members of the old boy group told a story about one of their old concerts, where during the show Rev Run took his Adidas shoe off and held it up in the air. He told everyone in the crowd if they were wearing Adidas to hold them up in the air as well to show the Adidas representative backstage that the reason their once failing charts to be sky rocketing is because of their influence.(Watkins 13) From that point on Hip Hop has continued to influence fashion and the culture of people today. There are many celebrities that are brand endorsers, such as Kanye West. Kanye West is also linked to Adidas. In 2016 the Yeezy Boost 360 was realesed and sold out in 12 minutes. Because of the big star Kanye is supply and demand for his shoes were very high.(Watkins 15) Other such findings demonstrates that Hip hop …show more content…
Such as Ice cube began to tell the story of the ghetto through films. Also, Lauryn Hill was preaching about gender equality in her famous song “everything is everything”. As such, this finding demonstrates that the world began to use artist such as Tupac, Queen Latifah and Nas to uplift and educate young people from the projects. But somewhere aound the end of the decade things changed. Politically conscious hip hop gained steam underground but began to exit pop culture. Rappers like Mos Def and Common stayed true to conscious rap but the rise of crunk and gangster rap made hip hop more like a rowdy party scene.(Watkins 22) Which erupted in the 2000’s but in 2015 some artist made a change and decided to go back to old ways. Such as Kendrick Lamar, he had a grammy nominated album called “To pimp a butterfly” which speaks of many topics going on with the world today but also black people their struggles. Moreover, because of hip hop and the culture sharing that’s taking place, it brought people together and some of what made that happen helped put Obama in
A huge problem these days is that you’re generation millions of dollars for a brand and for them not to compensate or even say thank you is a huge slap in the face. For example, Run DMC, famously known for their love of Adidas shoes, wrote many records that pertain to the shoe. Only to bring more customers and money to the multimillion dollar company still around today. Back then they had terrible sells and randomly started to see an increase of purchase in the states. During an interview, one of the members of the old boy group told a story about one of their old concerts, where during the show Rev Run took his Adidas shoe off and held it up in the air. He told everyone in the crowd if they were wearing Adidas to hold them up in the air as well to show the Adidas representative backstage that the reason their once failing charts to be sky rocketing is because of their influence.(Watkins 13) From that point on Hip Hop has continued to influence fashion and the culture of people today. There are many celebrities that are brand endorsers, such as Kanye West. Kanye West is also linked to Adidas. In 2016 the Yeezy Boost 360 was realesed and sold out in 12 minutes. Because of the big star Kanye is supply and demand for his shoes were very high.(Watkins 15) Other such findings demonstrates that Hip hop …show more content…
Such as Ice cube began to tell the story of the ghetto through films. Also, Lauryn Hill was preaching about gender equality in her famous song “everything is everything”. As such, this finding demonstrates that the world began to use artist such as Tupac, Queen Latifah and Nas to uplift and educate young people from the projects. But somewhere aound the end of the decade things changed. Politically conscious hip hop gained steam underground but began to exit pop culture. Rappers like Mos Def and Common stayed true to conscious rap but the rise of crunk and gangster rap made hip hop more like a rowdy party scene.(Watkins 22) Which erupted in the 2000’s but in 2015 some artist made a change and decided to go back to old ways. Such as Kendrick Lamar, he had a grammy nominated album called “To pimp a butterfly” which speaks of many topics going on with the world today but also black people their struggles. Moreover, because of hip hop and the culture sharing that’s taking place, it brought people together and some of what made that happen helped put Obama in