African hip hop

likes to entertain and inform people with his music when he is performing. Based on his research, he was born on October 24,1986 (“Hip-Hop Biographies Drake” 6). When he releases his first mixtape he started using the name Drake. During Drake’s early life he was going through a couple of rough times. He lived with his mother in a very wealthy Jewish neighborhood (“Hip-Hop Biographies Drake” 6). His parents got divorced while he was just a little kid…

There are thousands of artists who try to make it into the hip-hop industry. The question is how is that accomplished? Hip-hop artists can break into the music industry by perfecting lyrical content, good production, and reaching audiences. Being a hip-hop artist trying to break into the music industry one thing that needs to be improved and perfected is lyrical content. As an artist the lyrical content that they bring needs to be lyrics that will match the voice and flow of the artist. A…

After the first couple of days of the hip hop artists Drake and Future’s new mixtape being out, (What a Time to be Alive) the downloads went through the roof.This caused the duo to change the free mixtape into an ten-dollar album, which made them over three-million dollars. But this album is making money for them and for the seven-hundred-billion dollar company, Apple. Drake and Future have teamed up with Apple making it so that the only place you can buy the album is on iTunes, which is owned…

The music genre of Hip-hop and its unusual sound is a unique cultural artifact, which is defined as an item that, when found, reveals valuable information about the society that made or used it. The different sound of music that hip-hop brings is: an infusion between rock and roll, and rhythm and blues, so it has been said. What makes hip-hop a cultural artifact is its influence on fashion, other genres of music, sports, entertainment, an even people. Hip-hop is more than just a form of music it…

Introduction You Should Be Here is the second mixtape released by singer Kehlani on April of 2015. The mixtape is made up of 15 songs in which Kehlani channels a mixture of longing and uncertainty about both, romantic and familial, relationships in her life. The mixtape’s cover sparked my intreset as it was a painted portrait of Kehlani on top of a building. For the purpose of this paper, I will attempt to answer this research question: How does Kehlani’s mixtape cover further embolden and…

Women are always portrayed different in R&B and rap music than other genres. Songs by male artists reflect the negative, sexual stereotypes associated with women. These artists are extremely sexual with their work, downgrading the image of women and the respect that they deserve. They utilize harsh, inappropriate words, names, and hostile images to depict women. The women are portrayed as sex images, mainly to attract other men to the music. Male figures of contemporary R&B consist of The Weeknd…

SCRATCH Scratch is a documentary movie, directed and altered by Doug Pray. The film examines the world of the Hip Hop DJ. From the introduction of Hip Hop, while spearheading DJ's started broadening breaks on their gathering records (which enlivened break moving and rap), to the innovation of scratching and beat-juggling vinyl, to its later blast as a melodic development called turntablism, it's an account of obscure underdogs and genuine virtuosos who have fundamentally changed the way we hear,…

By waiting almost three entire years, he is able to strike his fans with something they did not expect and successfully did so by dropping a rap-free soul album. Many fans across the world are not happy with Glover’s transition from the rap and hip-hop world into the soul and R&B world in which this album embodies.…

To the untrained ear, all rap can sound the same. This is because a rap song usually has an artist rhyming over a bass beat. However, rap/hip-hop has different sub categories and styles which are seen throughout different time periods. Hip-hop was born in the south Bronx in the early 80’s then spread to the west coast by the late 80’s. This hip-hop sweep quickly began the feud between the upbeat rhythm of East-Coast rappers and the “g-funk” beats of West-Coast rappers. Once the era of East…

It’s been a prolonged absence from Wiz Khalifa in the hip-hop world. All is well after his latest release, “Laugh Now, Fly Later.” One thing that irks me is when people say, “Wiz Khalifa isn’t the same.” It’s not even just him. People say the same for Kanye West, Jay-Z and many others. Music changes so much that it’s unfair to wish for music the artist made years ago. The artists mature and different things influence them and their music. For the most part, I️ feel like Khalifa has maintained…