African American rappers

years. Rap was once a genre dominated mostly by African American artists. When looking through Billboard’s “10 best Rappers of all Times,” the skin color seems to be all black until there is a white male named …. , but known as Eminem. When Eminem first started, he was a young white kid in a black community with a passion for rapping, something in which the black community frowned upon. Successfully, Eminem became one of the best selling white rappers. However, back then Eminem became a problem…

What is hip hop? Hip Hop is a style of popular music of United States African American and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. Hip hop music in 2018 is still very popular in the United States by both men and women and diverse cultures. In the article “Fly-Girls, Bitches and Hoes” by Joan Morgan she quotes rap lyrics from the Notorious B.I.G.’s platinum album “Ready to Die”, scenarios and statistics relating to black on black crime and her mother’s words of wisdom to…

Essay #4 Hate Speech Keenon Jackson, commonly known as YG, is a young African American from Compton, California who is affiliated with the Blood gang. Ermias Asghedom, better known as Nipsey Hussle, is a Mexican rapper from Los Angeles who associates with the Crip gang. They were able to come together to create a hip-hop song called, “F*ck Donald Trump”, which was symbolic in that despite being in opposing gangs, they saw themselves as an ethnic whole, threatened and demoralized by Donald Trump…

money, gangs or how about the ones who created it, I know there is one thing that you would never think k of when discussing hip hop and that is Korean hip hop. Hip Hop is defined as a cultural movement that was created by the disadvantage African-American youth living in the south Bronx during the 1970s. Hip Hop or more commonly known as rapping is a complex culture filled with four important elements. Including deejaying, or “turntabling”; rapping, also known as “MCing” or “rhyming”;…

The mainstream rapper is an 11 Grammy award winner and Rolling Stone has declared him the greatest rapper of our generation. Provided that, something as simple as an album cover can show his immense impact on the Hip-Hop community. A group of shirtless African Americans stand in front of the White House with bottles of alcohol, bombarding a judge, who lays on the ground (Source C). Not to mention…

politician, John Kwang. The incidents that happen in Kwang’s election camp mirror the racial conflict and possible harmony of different races in America. Although the novel begins with high hopes that interracial disharmony between African Americans and Korean Americans can be overcome through political strategy, by the end of the novel, Chang-rae Lee suggests that political strategy alone…

combination between knowledge or intelligent and the action or relevant movement, and going through the music and become hip-hop music style. According to Laurence Krisna Parker: “Rap is something you do Hip Hop is something you live-”. Hip-hop is not about rapper and something you do, but hip-hop is something you live. In this essay, I will write about the hip-hop history, the streams of hip-hop, the existence of hip-hop culture. Hip-hop history is one of the new cultures that have found…

Every time I turn on the radio in my car, I cannot hear a song without rappers calling a female out of their name and that has been an issue for quite some time now. My opening statement was a verse from actress/rapper Queen Latifah’s hit song U.N.I.T.Y. The song was released in 1994 as a form of taking a stand against the derogatory terms used in hip-hop to discuss women. Queen Latifah, as well as many other female rappers, semi-dominated the hip-hop nation for several years when women…

used to communicate a crisis beyond the public spaces occupied only by black rappers and black audiences.” (Bohlman) The rap genre used to only be for black audiences and the people who were experiencing the things that the rappers were rapping about. After the Rodney King Trial and all the songs that followed, rap became a method of communication for people to know what was happening in the inner city through an African American’s point of view. The article stated, “The message did not simply…

The underrated rapper Common has referenced social justice throughout his career. He frequently attempts to create a better social condition for African Americans through his music, he does this by educating those who ignore the struggles of African Americans. He especially does this through his song “The People”. This is similar to Dr. Kings points in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, king says that ignoring the injustices is just as bad as participating in these injustices. Common…