Hip Hop Culture Essay

In the article it states that he “presented the second lecture in MIT’s Hip Hop speaker Series, Race Relations in the US.” He also explored other topics like music, misogyny, community activism, and cultural appropriation, social media and police brutality. His fourth studio album titled Pl3dge which is the third in the I pledge…

everyone’s second favorite Jewish rapper. Receiving great critical reception from XXL, the Los Angeles Times, Billboard, etc. along with multiple accolades as it ranked on nearly every major Top 50 Album of the Year list as well as every major Top 10 Hip Hop Album list. Two years following his successful major label debut, Earl returned more mature than ever. His sophomore LP entitled “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt” was announced six days prior to its…

The sixth song is called “Back in Black” this song starts with the dumber taping the symbols as the melody starts and one of the most famous guitar riffs comes blazing, as this fast pace song gives you a rush of adrenaline. Lyrically is hard to fallow as it sounds like rap and some of the lyrics are hard to understand but what I understand it is about getting back in the rock and roll party life. The seventh song is called “You Shook Me All Night Long” song starts with a guitar melody as it…

forces of hip hop music had begun to shift from New York and Los Angeles to the gritty sounds of the south. In an industry climate where many of hip hop's most notable artists saw a decline in sales and popularity, Nas' unmatched skills and creativity solidified his spot as one of the Best Rappers of the 2000's. As Complex writer, Rob Kenner states, "22 years after his debut on Main Source's "Live at the Barbeque," Nas remains one of the most compelling and divisive artists in hip-hop." Nas, a…

In the past decade, EDM has sprouted many different genres of music, but not all becoming successful. Really starting to become it’s own genre in the past 5 years, Tropical house has made its way to the top of these subgenres with it’s calm but exciting dance music. Tropical house has stemmed from deep house, which is a subgenre of house music, which again came from the genre of EDM, or Electronic Dance Music. Electronic dance music is known for its intensity, with anticipation on a beat drop…

Dylan in breadth of lyrical vocabulary. The analysis of vocabulary used by 99 of the biggest selling found you and other artists such as Eminem and Jay-Z streets ahead of Dylan and the Beatles for number of words used. How do you feel about it? Hip-hop is currently the most lyrically expansive genre overall so I am not surprised at all that some of the modern artists in this genre have achieved this so-called ‘milestone’. Personally, this does not mean anything to me. I am not about achieving…

Americans today tend to believe that Hip Hop has made a dramatic influence on society today. From many articles that I’ve read such as Brent Staples ¨How Hip Hop Music Lost Its Way and Betrayed Its Fans¨ he stated that ¨The most poisonous one defines middle-class normalcy and achievement as "white," while embracing violence, illiteracy and drug dealing as "authentically" black. This fiction rears its head from time to time in films and literature. But it finds its most virulent expression in rap…

beginning, was presented to be positive. But with the development of gangster rap, people have come to believe that rap music is no longer positive, but instead has become a bad influence on children and society as a whole. Gangster rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that began to emerge in the late 1980’s and early 90’s which lyrics emphasized the so call “thug life”. Much criticism and controversy now surrounds this style of music. Critics have accused gangster rap of promoting violence,…

In Hip Hop a name is everything, it is your identity and your mark on the world. In Jeff Chang’s book, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A history of the Hip-Hop Generation” DJ Kool Herc mentioned that tagging a name was, “like locating the edge of civil society and planting a flag there”. It did not make them celebrities to the outside world but it made them celebrities to their peers (74). Creating a memorable name was important for Hip Hop artists since this the name would represent who the artist was…

Three Track Phenomenon While thinking of the term “literary mixtape,” a mental list is developed of all the possible examples used to define the term. My mind travels to Brown Sugar when Sanaa Lathan and Taye Diggs first fell in love with hip-hop. I also think of the soul songs infused in the speeches of President Barack Obama. Maya Angelou’s mixtape is composed of her numerous speeches, poems and books, which moved the nations. Theopilus London once said, “Mixtapes are very personal, and they…