African American rappers

Colorism in music has been more apparent nowadays in many different forms. Whether it’s an artist’s skin tone resulting in certain sales, or the controversy based off of one’s appearance, it is very real and it personally doesn’t bother me.
 Let’s talk about what I mean when I say “colorism in music” as I give clear examples to what they are and represent. Colorism in music can also be viewed as cultural appropriation. I say this because of my main example, whites taking what blacks have already…

country has faced. From the early 19th to the 20th century political poetry has had its change of approach and style. Early writers like Langston Hughes used poetry as a way to show America the hardships and experiences non white cultures like African Americans faced in the country during the early to mid 1900 's like in his poem "I Too". Half a century later the worlds technology advancements keep growing and the media has become the center of our generations attention. Even with times…

become a dealer like Coates older brother Bill did at Howard University. Coates was also surrounded around the badge value. According to “Illuminating the Black Experience” in the Miller and Kemp’s What’s Black About it?, the badge value is when a African American places a greater emphasis on brand name item and use that to communicate social and economic achievements. Throughout every Black community, the badge value is present, and relating to Coates his brother Bill was victim to it. Bill…

was an influential and compelling American rapper, actor, and activist who expressed African American injustices in his music. In his 1992 song, “Changes,” he discussed components that interfere and affect the everyday life of an African American, which included poverty, racial-profiling, and racism, while indicating the need for a change to end the oppression. While using his song as a tool for social commentary, Tupac addressed matters beyond African American struggles, which included social,…

disappointments as far as connections, flexibility, financial aspects, desires, and sex. By the 70s, rhythm and blues was also being used as a term to depict soul and funk. What's more, today, the term can be utilized to, in a way, characterize most sung African-American urban music, disregarding the fact that spirit and funk have their very own class. These styles look at in sound as they were all roused from the same source somehow. R&B has dependably been viewed as somewhat unsafe. These days…

Hip-hop as a genre has been used in the past as a means for oppressed peoples to stand up against “racial and socioeconomic injustices, which are deeply embedded within American culture”(Henry, West, & Jackson 238). Although, the hip hop and rap genres were used as a tool they have also been very harmful to the images of the black women. Hip hop culture has embraced misogyny as a norm and a practice that most relevant artists participate in. The lyrics in the songs promote this attitude, and…

In society rap is arguably one of the popular forms of music in African American culture. Rappers today continue to talk about current issues of the world and their personal stories through rap's poetic meaning and structure, for example rappers like Mickey Factz expresses his hope and dreams through music. “Do it for the culture. For the grind, for the hustlers. Yeah I do it for the love of life. It's the life I'm living,I'm gonna keep, keep on winning. This time…”(Mickey Factz ft.Marsha…

created by African Americans in New Orleans. It grew its popularity in the 1920s when Louis Armstrong first introduce the early form of Jazz which was influenced by Ragtime and Blues. Others perceive Jazz as a collaboration of African and European styles of music. Armstrong evolved jazz music into a rapid rhythmic style and called it Hot Jazz. After musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagarden, and Joe Venuti heard jazz music, they began imitating its style and jazz soon became an American…

Music is the religion everyone follows and can listen to non-stop. Out of all genres, rap is the top genre in the twenty-first century. We all rap, dance and believe in the lyrics that is delivered to the audience. Kendrick Lamar became a well-known rapper, from the day he released his first album to the present day. The message Kendrick Lamar is speaking to all people is to call his music their home. In his teen days, he started his career with singing or nowadays “rapping,” and sold millions…

Caucasians still have hatred towards African-Americans. In some instances, it is not just Caucasians that show impoliteness towards African-Americans, but also African Americans who show unkind behavior to each other. In “Hip Hop Planet” and “Black Men and Public Space” society determines the identity by race. In both articles the authors mention that Black people and their music come off as a threat to those who are around them. They both see African-Americans as being troublesome. Brent…