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One of Drake's college classmates at forest hill who helped the future star get into the entertainment industry. He starred on the popular show for seven years as a basketball star. In the show he shot by a classmate and was permanently put in a wheelchair. After the incident his dreams of a basketball career were over. During his time as wheel chair jimmy he earned multiple awards. In 2002, He won the young artist award for best ensemble. After the awards he became a star in canada but was…

For decades, Hip-hop music has been more than just music to the African-American community. It has been a way for them to express and reflect on the struggles they are facing in life. Since 2013, Hip-hop is being greatly influenced by the Black Lives Matter movement, which is an activist movement that fights against the racism and violence towards African-Americans. This movement ignited after horrific cases of police brutality across America towards black teens. Hip-hop artists have…

Joseph Saddler, who has an alias as Grandmaster Flash, is an American hip hop recording artist and one of the pioneers of hip-hop, Djing, cutting, and mixing. His family migrated to the United States from Barbados, in the Caribbean. He grew up in The Bronx, New York where he attended Samuel Gompers High School, a public vocational school. There he learned how to repair electronic equipment. His parents played an important role in his interest in music as he was fascinated by his father’s music…

Trayvon Martin” would appear on America’s television screen daily. As these high profile cases developed with a rise of Black and Brown women and men dying, Hip-Hop artists took to conscious lyrics and activism to express their dismay of America’s justice system and support for the Black Lives Matter movement. After Michael Brown’s death in 2014, J. Cole penned an open letter demanding an end to injustice stating before flying out to Ferguson’s protests: "I 'm tired of being desensitized to…

Another way that Outkast challenged notions of authenticity was through their defiance towards conceptions of performative blackness within Hip Hop. Here, I will use E. Patrick Johnson’s framework, as well as how authenticity is constructed based on sound, look and feel in tandem, to illustrate how OutKast resisted this limited view of Hip Hop legitimacy (Grazian). Perceptions of performative blackness connected to sound, look and feel stem from urban inner-city ghetto life that included a…

remains evident in hip hop music. The power to positively impact urban youth is more important now than it has ever been. There are some people whose opinion on the hip hop music genre is mostly that of violence, sex and drugs. Even though there is the existence of these topics in hip hop…

the right song to re-emerge with. It's where I've been the last year, through all the ups and downs. We didn't want to do a big campaign or anything over the top with this. We just wanted to put out good music, directly to the people that have been here since the beginning. Thank you for your patience. Hope you enjoy." Macklemore, together with Lewis, have been recognized widely by different award-giving bodies and respected outfits in music which includes the following---American Music Awards'…

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 with American politics,…

Kendrick Lamar is a rapper from Compton, who has made a big impact in Hip Hop, by having two of the greatest albums this decade GOOD KID, M.A.A.D City and To Pimp a Butterfly. He is known for his innovative take on social issues. Kendrick Lamar’s performance whether it’s the Grammys or the BET awards has received praised and backlash. The Grammy performance which is the most recent occurring on Monday February 15,2016. He used the Grammy performance as a platform to showcase his views on what is…