African American rappers

backlash after the rapper was named the headliner of the event. In the past, the rapper sent out several tweets that were deemed racist and homophobic. "Wondered why my butt felt like it was about 2 grow legs, flip me off & walk away. Then I remembered I played soccer yesterday with 5 dyke bitches," Azalea once tweeted. Another tweet read,"When guys whisper in each other's ears I always think it's kinda homo." The rapper also posted stereotypical tweets about African American, Hispanic, Asian,…

Krystal Smith Professor Ellis African American History 5 September 2014 Racism is Not a Permanent Feature of American Society Slavery has been said to be a “stain on the history of the United States of America.” Some believe that racism is a battle that African Americans still struggle with today; and always will. Other, on the other hand, believes that factors than racial discrimination explain the currently disappointing statistics of African Americans today. Derrick Bell, a professor at…

Ms. Hill The cultural context that I choose is a song called “Ms.Hill”, written by rapper and songwriter Talib Kweli. This song was released in 2005 and it speaks about his admiration toward his iconic friend, Lauryn Hill, a rapper, singer, songwriter, and poet. She’s also known from the 1992 comedy film, Sister Act starting Whoopi Goldberg. This song expresses admiration toward Lauryn Hill’s ways of not conforming to the ways of the music industry as well as creating her own style of music,…

whole group of people. In the case of African Americans, uniting to overcome barriers has become a repeated action throughout history. From the times of slavery, the Civil Rights Movement and the present day, black citizens have been forced to experience similar social torments. This uniform suffering has led to the development of a collective concern for a nationwide community. When their race is targeted for nothing more than merely skin color, African Americans share the resentment, and more…

transition. With Rap’s African American origins, the dilemma of Racism has always been a controversy throughout the genre’s…

the concept of that a man has to be strong and tough to defend and support his family. A man seen as soft would usually be subject to feminizing and racially degrading insults. A real man is ego driven because most rappers are concerned with money, fame, and girls, and the biggest rappers have the largest ego. Hip hop portrays men as dominant and sexualizing over women…

popular and the reason for that are rappers. Black vernacular is widely spoken throughout the black community so when rappers rap in black vernacular and whatever they rap about the people can relate to it. Stated by Matthew Feldman, “Lyrical musical performance is different from any other genre of language use, but it does not exist in a vacuum. The lyrics to songs written and performed by African Americans are to some degree reflective of other forms of African American…

come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, which was first published in 1999, music writer and hip-hop enthusiast Joan Morgan expresses her deep concern of the negative influence lyrics in rap music have on women and people of the African American community, as stated in her essay, "From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos". Morgan shares her views on the root causes of the prevalence of misogyny in rap music lyrics. Morgan illuminates the hidden causes of the harsh sexism in rap music…

Poetry is an artistic expression, and can be interpreted in various ways. Langston Hughes is an extremely distinguished African- American poet, during the Harlem Renaissance period. Langston’s writings have inspired other poets like the very notable Countee Cullen. Cullen’s “Incident” and Hughes” I, too, sing America” writings are centered around the racial adversities of Blacks living in “White America”. The poems generate thought provoking questions and paints images in the minds of the…

continually cast as inferior beings to their male counterparts. This is especially true when it comes to the music industry. Although the industry was no stranger to female music artists, Roberta Flack, Patti LaBelle, and Tina Turner to name a few, female rappers were virtually unheard of until the late 1980’s when a few popped onto the scene. Trailblazing new pathways for younger female artists, Queen Latifa, throughout her twenty-seven years as a prolific artist and entertainer, have portrayed…