Hip Hop Culture Essay

Get with the times, old man! Since the 1970’s hip hop has only been growing. Hip hop tracks keep topping the charts and new artists just keep coming with the creation of soundcloud, a platform which enables homemade rappers to publish their work online for free. Hip hop has been around for almost half a of a decade, so academic study of it is long overdue. Hip Hop is just poetry with music played in the background. An example familiar to us would be “dear mama” by Tupac. The verses have rhyme,…

Participation in Hip-Hop Dance.” Ethnic and Racial Studies 33(9):1580-99. Retrieved 2015 ( http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?url=http://search.proquest.com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/docview/758122989?accountid=14771 ). In this scholarly article, Ghandnoosh (2010) explores the interpretation of cultural practices made by participants of another race. She captures a wide range of participant views by interviewing non-African-American women on how ‘cross-cultural’ practices of hip-hop…

The misconceptions that may have someone correlate hip-hop music to gangster rap are such cases where a murder of an artist from gangster rap genre would make others look upon those deaths and see what they assume is a fair and balanced picture of what rap and hip-hop is all about: murder, drugs, and money. In truth, much of the conflict in hip-hop has moved inward, as its players are fighting battles of ideas and emotions rather than gangster rap artist’s battle for dominance over another…

Over the year’s hip hop music has become a staple in society. Since the birth of hip hop many have toyed with the effects that hip hop has had the behaviors and lifestyles of its listeners. Many believed that hip hop gave was positive as the artists shared their many stories of life and experiences, while others believe that hip hop incites violence, promotes high risk sex, degrades women and glorifies gangs, drugs and dealers. On the contrary others believe that hip hop is an outlet to…

Mainstream rap and hip-hop portrays a distinct style and theme, which, to me, seems to be mostly centered on commercialism. The stereotype that exists for hip-hop exists because the mainstream hip-hop does fit into the mold that some of us talked about during the first discussion. Artists promote lifestyles that are unattainable for the majority, probably all, of their listeners. This focus on commercialism, always having the newest, best, and brightest editions of clothing, electronics, or cars…

Business Mission The Buena Park Museum of Hip Hop conserves significant artifacts as part of an exhibit for the general public to view. The exhibit allows people to explore hip hop by viewing it through an artistic, cultural, and historical lens. The museum breaks new ground for people both well-versed and unfamiliar with the subject. Establishing a museum fills a community need by educating people, and engaging the local population. The business aims to serve as a source of entertainment, a…

to represent a movement, social change and culture, when music is created many have a meaning or a purpose which is not only to entertain, but is used to educate about the culture for example some classical music has no words but when people analyse the music itself it is cut in to pieces and the instruments can be seen to show meaning. In this essay the aim will be to look at rap/hip-hop music, in particular I will be looking into whether or not hip-hop is a narrative of “the street’. Music has…

In researching my topic of hip-hop music, I have found two scholarly sources from the Galileo database that I think will prove useful in my final argument paper when paired with the two popular sources that I described in Essay one. The first article, “Can Music Preference Indicate Mental Health Status in Young People?”, published in 2008 by Felicity Baker and William Bor appearing in Australasian Psychiatry, claims that hip-hop and heavy metal music can influence adolescent’s social and…

Americans would witness multiple changes in the country’s history in regards to minorities, especially African Americans. And to truly understand the lyrical significance of Hip Hop, it is imperative that the history leading up to the beginning of Hip Hop. Take year 1956, this is not only the same year Clive Campbell, the father of Hip Hop was born, but also the year that the Supreme Court found the segregation of the Montgomery Buses as an unconstitutional practice (Timeline: Civil Rights Era…

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. Rountree starts off by talking about Don Imus when he called the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hoes” (212). Next…