African American rappers

Swag is a term heard far too often. I hear “Swag” on a daily basis, and that is because it is simply everywhere: in music, in day-to-day life, and even in sports. Rappers, athletes, and regular people alike use swag as a way of credibility. I, on the other hand, think the expression swag needs to come to an immediate end, and the reason for that is that there is an actual word that has the exact same connotation. That word is swagger. Swagger, unlike swag, could actually be found in the dictionary. While we all know that swag is a slang term used to shorten the word swagger, it really is not that hard to just say swagger. It would be such an enormous improvement if people substituted swagger for swag in conversation. So how does one define…

of influence to communities, this is the problem with hip hop. Hip Hop is an African American music that express Black culture. Black culture is made up of brutality, women, money, and clothes. Hip hop started by rappers talking about what they believed in. Then it began discussing the act of using violence to settle the problems they had. Finally transitioned into discussing flashing money, showing off lavaliere and clothes, and causing violence. Through all of this people were influenced. Now,…

The American Dream for many people was to bring out freedom and equality for everyone. In the 1950s and earlier it was hard for African Americans to do what they wanted. If they tried they’d be executed or ignored by many. Back then, all around the world was quite racist. In the 1950s and earlier African Americans were slaves and were used as basically a back bone for a lot of white people. Life in the 1900s and earlier for the African Americans was not what…

The Golden age of Hip Hop began on August 11,1973 and was generally the first in New York South Bronx. It started in a party where Dj Kool Herc used his turntables and got the people to party. Dj Kool Herc knew that to have a party going the mic was important because thats what got the people pumped. So young African Americans started to rap. SInce that day ,it was embraced by young African American men who invented new music using turntables to epress themselves and express their culture. It…

Rappers misuse their influence at times and rap about insignificant topics that focus on consumerism, such as rapping about cars and money, and objectifying women. The way rap music is portrayed in the media seems to capture these trivial topics rather than the important social issues some rappers discuss. However, there are few rappers who dare comment on social issues, two being Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West. Lamar and West write music about important social topics such as racial injustice…

Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is an associate professor of history and director of the institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. With his skills, Jeffrey Ogbar writes a book that examines genders in hip hop, authenticity of hip hop, and races that had an influence on hip hop. The book goes into the historical side of things and it gives the reader words like minstrel, jezebel, Nigger Heaven, Black Power Movement, Black Panther Party, and many more. While reading this book I…

Language choices can be affected by different social factors and norms. The lexical and structural choices that people make when they using language are dictated by class, wealth, education, race, religion and other factors. Rap music is one of the language choices for African American to express their feelings, emotion, anger, frustration, misogyny and ideas; it is a reflection of the cultural and political environment from which it is born. Gangsta rap music is an ideology affected by the…

Race relations between Asian Americans and Black Americans have always been rocky. In order to understand the historical relationship between Asian and Black Americans, it is important to understand the intersectionality of hip hop and how it’s shifted through history. There is so much racial tension between Asian and Black people and hip hop was used both to widen and close the gap between the two groups. Hip-hop for both Asian and Black people has been used as an act of rebellion, but despite…

Hip hop culture is connected with oral rivalry called “playing the dozens”, which joins diverting put-down and oral aptitudes in a battle to shock and finally quiets one's enemy. An extraordinary ace of this expressive test was Muhammad Ali, who utilized short rhymes to demonize his opponents and paralyze intellectuals. In hip hop the "humble groups" framed into the custom known as "engaging," in which rappers conflict against each other to see who has the best verses and grow stream. Engaging,…

it is a frequently used word dependent upon the culture. The n-word is a word that developed over time after slavery as a slang word used to reference African Americans. The word can be used in a sense such as a friend, but can also be used in a negative, derogative manner with a racial insinuation towards someone. The n-word is perceived to be an acceptable word when used by a certain group of people. The n-word was a negative word developed by Caucasians used to reference African Americans…