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…

they have on the younger generation. She is not afraid to be passionate while being blunt in her poetic terminology. The poem is about the female rapper Nicki Minaj. Mans is criticizing her plastic surgery and her music lyrics. All Dolls will evidentially malfunction (I don’t even know why you girls bother at this point like give it up, it’s me I win you lose) Nicki Minaj (It’s me) I must admit (Its, its me) I have always been intrigued by your ass I guess that’s what the world looked like…

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 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…

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…

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…

this essay I want to explore the impact that rappers’ lyrics, views, and life styles have on subsequent generations, and how people that listen to their music are affected in their everyday lives by these rappers messages in rap music and its associated media. This essay aims to examine a variety of artistic forms such as lyrics, music videos and associated art work. Additionally, it will reflect on the social, cultural and historical background of rap music. Historical Background and Slave…

How rap music has influence African-American culture America is known for lot things, the land of freedom, land of milk and honey, and freedom to express one thoughts, etc. America has one of the largest music style industries in the world. Music style like country, gospel, pop, rap, etc. one of those styles that influence the America society is rap music. When people were ask to define rap music? The seem to say its a style of popular music. Rap is a form of rhyming with sound expressing ones…

Olubowale Akintimehin, more commonly known by his stage name “Wale,” is a rapper who rose to prominence in Washington D.C. in 2006. He has deep ties to this area, and routinely gives performances in the area as well as talks at universities including Georgetown about the future of rap in terms of race. As an African American of Nigerian descent, Wale addresses racial and ethnical issues in many of his songs. In his album, Attention: Deficit, Wale burst out onto the radars of many listeners, as…

The article “Daughters of the Blues: Women, Race, and Class Representation in Rap Music Performance,” sheds light on how women in rap have been disproportionately represented. Dating back to the 1920s, black women have successfully been “contest[ing], protest[ing], and affirm[ing] working-class ideologies of black womanhood (187)” through the blues. Notable blues singers, such as Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Ida Cox, paved the way for women MCs today to speak out about their experiences of being…