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    In its early days, hip-hop culture arose from the ruins of the Bronx, a neighborhood of New York City. Its roots pay homage to genres like blues and jazz, yet it has a style all its own. Despite its conscientious intentions, somewhere in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, hip-hop seemed to have lost its vision. It had morphed into an outward expression of materialism, and artists committed to expressing…

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    Today’s culture in America is a very diverse one. It derives from different ethnicities or groups of people. America as a country has the type of culture that is always changing. Weather that be a style of fashion, type of music, or even food, the American culture is always changing. One type of music in particular has had a huge impact on American culture as a whole. That type of music being Hip-Hop. This type of music changed the dynamic of the music industry from the moment it became popular…

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    it is evident that aspects Hip-Hop are being commodity, creating a multi-billion dollar industry (Holsendolph 1999). White corporate Americans are the primary distributors for the Hip-Hop industry. Moreover, the commodification of Hip-Hop has led to the weakening of the cultural expression and critical conscious awareness of the music, solely focusing on the white patriarchal perception of African Americans. Henceforth, hyper-masculine identity within hip-hop culture produced by the ‘white…

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    The global hip-hop youth culture is one of the manifestations that have continued to thrive since the nineteenth century to date. Notably, the speed at which the black American culture is spreading to other parts of the world other than the United States of America has increased substantially (Osumare 266). Hip-hop has become a factor that binds the youth globally and enables them to share and experience a form of attachment with each other (Osumare 267). It is possible for rap and hip-hop to…

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    exist that cultural connections to African cultural practices are apparent. How does African culture continue to show in Hip-hop over time? Hip-Hop culture, since around the 1950s, has shown the world different aspects of the Africanist Aesthetic within its culture. Though it is understood that not everyone in hip-hop is considerably part of the Africanist Aesthetics, they still embrace the creation of hip-hop and its origins. For…

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    I completely agree with this quote and the sentiments it encompasses. Misogyny runs rampant through both hip hop music and hip hop culture, and reveal much larger problems that still exist in our society. Examples of misogyny can be seen in almost every aspect of hip hop culture, and in all four pillars of hip hop B-Boying/B-Gigling, DJing. MC’ing and Graffiti. Misogyny can be seen in B-Boying/B-Gigling in the documentary All The Ladies Say. It describes many of the struggles that are faced by…

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    Question One From perusal of the readings on Puerto Rican and the Jamaican voice, I realized that they were omitted from hip hop culture. However, I also noted that the Chicano voice was avidly expressed within the readings. There are several factors that could have contributed to the binary resistance and nonconformity that was observed between the inclusivity of the two genres. The first reason was due to the language difference that existed. Language barriers during the 1980s to the 1990s…

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    a popular culture to create a complex composition. Graffiti art was connected with the hip-hop culture, which included rap music, break dancing, and disc jockeys. This culture attracted a lot of attention in New York magazines, movies, and films like the movie “Break In” which helped the society have a better understanding of this culture. Many graffiti artists became very well known at the time. Hip-hop had become accepted in the United States and worldwide making the graffiti culture appear in…

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    It is our culture from dreads to cornrows to the language and even to the dances and it should not be misused. Reflecting on the meaning hip-hop holds for my family and how people can so easily take and misconstrue it made me curious to the extents of cultural appreciation and appropriation, and how they are displayed differently. When does a person stop appreciating the culture and begin to appropriate it and how is that defined? These questions and interest in cultural appropriation are more…

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    Hip hop culture plays such a prominent role in our society. It is considered cool to smoke weed, have sex all the time and not pay attention to education. In one of Dr. Moore’s lecture, he said “hip hop sells black culture globally.” So what people buy is what people are going to make. Rob Peace was influenced by hip hop culture because he had that struggle with the typical druggie, surrounded by women, and fitting in image. Robert grew up in the ghetto and always had the typical people who…

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