African hip hop

Given all the tracks in coloring book, Chance the Rapper revealed to media that “Same Drugs” was the hardest to write and release on the mixtape. From that we , the listeners, should take the time to fathom the lyrical piece for it’s deeper meaning. When the track first dropped fans thought it was about Chance reminiscing about doing drugs with a friend in his pastime. However Chance laid on the line that this poem definitely wasn’t about actual drugs as the fans first thought. However through…

Macklemore, relevant music and latest track ‘Growing Up’ Known for chart-topping and megalomaniac hits Same Love and Can't Hold Us, rap artist Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis is set to keep the ball rolling again with a new song to be released entitled Growing Up. After being low on the radar for the past two to three years, Macklemore and Lewis would be heard again via the said song which shouts of the former's recent penetration to fatherhood. Macklemore's latest hit would definitely be…

Who Is Kevin Gates? Kevin Gates is a Down- South rap artist born in New Orleans but raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. According to Kevin he grew up living with his grandmother because he was too much for his mother to handle. Kevin wasn’t the best kid growing up being in and out of jail since he was 13 but was still able to get his Masters in Psychology while incarcerated. Not like other rappers Kevin doesn’t consider his music rap but rather “Reality Music”. Dealing with different cases of…

but influenced descendant’s view of mainstream culture. As an Asian, I have to say that beat generation plays an essential role in propagating Zen and Buddhism, because many poets of beat generation write about Zen and Buddhism. The evolution of hip can be divided into six convergence, the first stage is the emergence of black face minsters and blues. The second stage is in 1920, the migration power which bring people who come from different places together. The third stage is after world war…

I was twelve years old when we entered the eighties. I had just started adolescence, and I hated the boring town I had grown up in. I had been playing electronic organ for a while and became fascinated with electronic music. By the time I was sixteen, I had started to go to an obscure underground club every Saturday night. I started to smoke and thought I had an opinion about the world around me. I was convinced that having funny hair and liking a certain kind of music gave me an identity, a…

The music video is a conceptual video but the lyrics tells a narrative story about Chicago. In the music video Mr. West uses personification and metaphors to depict his relationship with Chicago. The intro begins with] “Yeah. And you say Chi city, Chi city, Chi city”. Showing that he is speaking about his hometown Chicago, Illinois. He collaborates with Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, who ties in the chorus, “I'm coming home again. Do you think about me now and then? Do you think about…

valid inference given that most of Drake’s most popular songs center around women, absent of the traditional misogyny assigned rap. His career as a singing-rapper also has given him a softer effect than the traditional, hardened, early 2000s view of hip hop rappers. He is a Jewish, Canadian rapper which still thrives in a “hardcore” area of music with is constant appeal to women. He embodies the perfect expression of a woman’s ideal. For example, the lyrics from his earliest hit, ”Best I Ever…

“Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It”, popular lyrics sung by Will Smith, represents one example of success in the rapper’s life. This song exemplifies the way Smith lives life by moving and dancing without any fears of tomorrow. Will Smith, a zealous actor and songwriter, has gone through life experiencing substantial adversity. But, in the end Smith persevered from these challenges and transformed into a sage man. “I love living, I think that’s infectious. It’s something that you can’t fake,” Smith describes…

Laura Carpenter EH 422 1 December 2015 Clune, Michael. "“You can't see me”: rap, money, and the first person", American Literature and the Free Market, 1945–2000. Cambridge University Press. 2010. 127-195. Clune breaks apart the components of what has become known as American rap by arguing “that the two elements of the rap form are integrally related, in that the opposition between “I” and the generalized “you” provides the context in which the meaning of the money is established” (127).…

Hip-hop is arguably the biggest influence on today’s youth. Being born in the 1990’s, I was able to witness the positive and negative influences hip-hop has had on my generation, as well as be a part of the audience that has brought hip-hop to be as prevalent around the world as it is today. Now, as the artists of my generation were raised by hip-hop, these same artists will be responsible for the future of hip-hop. I did not always like hip-hop, so my first impression of it came with…