African hip hop

Hip-Hop is the leading genre in the modern music industry. There was a time that hip-hop was just a local music genre in the New York boroughs. An interest thing happened, a new dialect of English called black talk, or Ebonics came to the scene. The new dialect brought a new way to talk in every day talk across different backgrounds, especially in the youth. The effects can be seen today and specifically in hip-hop music. To understand the hip-hop culture and the impact on pop culture, one has…

many types of music, but hip hop is the type that is associated with African Americans, and they are the founders of hip hop. I am not a fan of hip hop because of how the music industry portrays black women as sex objects. Black women use Hip- hop to express themselves through music. Black women tell their stories, about how they feel about how men exploit them in the music industry and manipulate the young minds of our new generation against women. Although through hip hop some black women…

great strides towards becoming more accepting of the LGBTQ community, there is still a portion of the population that has not changed. And in hip hop culture today, it can be seen by many that homophobia is still prevalent. Joel Penney is quite aware of this as his article entitled, “We Don’t Wear Tight Clothes”: Gay Panic and Queer Style in Contemporary Hip Hop, is centered on the aforementioned idea. In the article, Penney discusses how the ongoing feud, between masculine gangsta rappers and…

Hip-hop originally started because DJ Herc’s little sister did not have any money for shoes and clothes. They decided to have a party and charge guess to enter. Drug use and the crime rate was high in New York City when hip-hop started in the mid-1970s. To try and eliminate some of the issues DJ’s threw block parties. To avoid issues around their community the residents participated. After that the hip-hop culture surfaced through the neighborhood. It then became the most popular thing in the…

music didn’t start in America. More than a century before rap exploded o­nto the American music scene, West African musicians were telling stories rhythmically, with just the beat…

Unquestionably, hip hop is one of the most influential cultural movements to emerge in the latter part of the 20th century. The profound influence of hip hop can be seen in pop culture can be seen across the globe. But, contrary to popular belief, hip hop isn’t just the music alone. It is a complex culture born in the concrete streets of New York’s South Bronx; bred in the five borough’s housing projects, parks, clubs and community centers, where the sons and daughters of Afro-Caribbean and…

The purpose of this study is to understand the effects hip hop music videos have on female body imaging. Body image is defined as subjective picture; a mental image of one’s own body. This study will demonstrate whether hip hop music has a positive or negative affect of how women view their body after being subjected to secular or misogynistic hip hop videos. Research participants include 20 Black-American adolescent females. Ages will vary in between the ages of 13 and 18. This research will be…

The debate of whether rap and hip hop are the same has been around since it became popular. In reference to history, everyone wants to add to the discussion. People tend to obscure history by adding their own ideas to how things really originated. In the case of Rap and Hip hop, many people try to force the two genres into one due to the fact that Rap and Hip hop share some similar features. Many fail to see that hip hop is different from rap. Rap and hip hop, although both genres originate…

Does Hip Hop provoke violence, drug use, and misogyny? In a time of strained relationships between African-Americans and White Americans, it’s strange to see the most visible source of Black culture in America, Hip Hop, get seldom reported on. As such a prominent part of our modern, shared culture, Hip Hop’s rapid growth has left many confused and perhaps even suspicious. No one is against having fun, but when it comes to negatively influencing listeners, especially the youth, the elephant in…

Hip Hop or also called Rap music, is a music genre formed in the United States in the 1970s that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping; a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. Hip hop has changed in ways making people believe that it is dead and needs resurrection. From young groups like NWA and solo artists like Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G to Young Money and J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar. The evolution in hip hop such as topics, tones, and the desire for…