African hip hop

personally experienced. In hip-hop, particularly rap, being a phony, or portraying yourself in a way that isn’t true, is scored. The artists cannot lay claim to experiences they have not lived. It goes against the very grain of what hip-hop stands for. It is a reflection of ones life. One component of hip-hop is that it is meant to be an outlet for the frustration and anger many black and brown youth have for their lot in life. Autobiographical and laden with metaphors, hip-hop allows people to…

the Hip Hop echelon had arrived long before 2011. Many of them had not only accumulated a vast amount of wealth a decade prior, but took part in the shift in qualities that determined ones elite status. This alteration from the previous black elite during the fourth wave first emerged when the Hip Hop generation was born. It ultimately came full circle when black and brown youth in urban ghettos in New York united through privations and the fervent need to alter their grim futures. The Hip Hop…

directly, actively, and importantly implicated within hip-hop culture and rap music because both dynamics, are a “self-defense mechanism that counterattacks the system of white world supremacy” (Chang, 2005, pg. 289). It was also “the first popular form of black music that offered little or no hope to its audience,” and like the Black Lives Matter movement, continues to cross many dominant, social boundaries. (Forman & Neal, 2012, pg. 486). Since hip hop culture has existed, and become involved…

the posters for minstrelsy had very pernicious pictures depicting ignorant African Americans for entertainment. Which during the time it wasn’t viewed so much as racial, but comical. In hip-hop there’s more freedom of expression and power in what is being said. So the advertisement for any hip hop artist now focuses on more of the positive change, that they can influence. One of the similarities of minstrelsy and hip hop is the marginalized attitudes that it influenced. Regardless of the…

Several Hip-hop artists in the different part of the world have composed and rapped about issues in the world. One of the causes that have contributed to the clustered and scattered pattern of globalisation of Hip-hop is social issues. Social issues are problems that affect people in a society mainly because of the conflict between the individual’s opinion based on what is recognized by the society. In America, several hip-hop artists tackled the issue of Racism. Afrika Bambaataa, the Godfather…

“Color-Blind Ideology and the Cultural Appropriation of Hip- Hop.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35, no. 6 (2006): 645–68. By using ethnographic methods and interviews, Roriquez investigates how Caucasian youths culturally appropriate the hip-hop culture by maintaining the color-blind ideology in this article. Rodriquez (2007) maintains that “colour-blindness” is such a powerful ideological framework that in regards to hip-hop, it provides Caucasian participants with the…

The following Ethnography takes a very specific look into the vast world of New York hip-hop, a specific look at a category of a dance style, or more appropriately a dance tradition in hip-hop known as “b-boying and b-girling.” Joseph G. Schloss is the author of the book called “Foundation: B-Boys, B-Girls, and Hip-Hop Culture in New York.” The book provides an engaging, new and exciting look on this amazing hip-hop subculture. The New York culture of b-boying and b-girling holds lots of…

Hip Hop and Rap’s explicit lyrics cause individuals to be violent because the music promotes criminal behavior such as gangs, fighting, shooting and degradation of women. The degradation of women leads to a high prevalence of sexual abuse. Hip Hop and Rap convey disrespecting women as the norm, so men control and treat women as sex objects. The degradation of women also causes…

styles of sound such as Jazz, Rock and Roll, or even Hip-Hop, which some may say has lost its way. On account of the continuous change that inevitably occurs in the world we live in, many artists have utilized Hip-Hop to either glamorize dangerous lifestyles that have developed over the years, or to raise awareness against them. Controversially, various excerpts and images have a say on who has taken over Hip-Hop such as the news article "How Hip-Hop Music Lost Its Way And Betrayed Its Fans",…

lane belonging solely to them. On the backs of other publications before them, XXL was able to provide a sophisticated view of hip hop that prior magazines…