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change his body to what society wants and what major companies expect. Major companies put the idea of change is the only way to live life to its fullest. In the documentaries Jean Kilbourne’s Killing US Softly 4, Miss Representation, Byron Hurt Hip-Hop beyond Beat & Rhymes. We see how hyper masculinity and hyper femininity is shaping out society. Big Companies will do any thing to sell their product, no matter whom they hurt. Several major companies use gender stereotypes just to sell their…

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…

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…

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…

From the way he dresses, people he hangs out with, and his opinion on many social issues, rap and many would say hip-hop, has helped formed his identity. The way he dresses tends to mirror those in the rap industry that he looks up to. The people he hangs out with, for the most part, share a similar taste in music with him. And issues such as racism, violence, and oppression…

from the unforgettable story “The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace,” written by Jeff Hobbs, lies an illustration of the influence of the Hip Hop Culture subgenres that has been located throughout many life stories in the past half century told by famous singers such as Eminem, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, 50 cent, Dr. Dre and many others. The Hip Hop Culture is described as individuals being prone to detail the struggles of life in the course of a brutally honest point of opinion. In…

Barker and Taylor (2007) state “Whether it be the folklorist’s search for forgotten bluesmen, the rock critic’s elevation of raw power over sophistication, to the importance of bullet wounds to the careers of hip-hop artists, the aesthetic of the authentic musical experience” (pp. ix) as it rejects music which could be labeled as artificial, pretentious and commercialized. The term authentic could have several meanings and connotations. . Barker and Taylor, (2007, pp. ix) describe it as a…

drug abuse. This, however, is not what hip hop was intended for. Although a quick glimpse at the surface of hip hop might lead you to believe these accusations, hip hop is not intended to inspire such behavior and actually has a much deeper meaning that many people are proud to support. The hidden roots of hip hop can date all the way back to the 1800’s when slavery was still very evident. The movement truly started within the civil rights movement. Hip hop was a way that the black culture could…

We all can agree that Technology has impacted our daily lives. Not just technology but also music that gives us a certain feeling of pleasure to take a break from the real world for our own ways of entertainment. Social Media and Hip Hop, both have a major influence of it users and listeners due to the fact that it improve relationship with family members who are far away and to interact with strangers as a way to look for solutions to their own problems with others who used to be in a similar…

(A Word from Propaganda)” clearly challenges male celebrities to present more positive examples for young men to follow than the current amoral behavior which plagues the headlines and hip hop music. The men of tomorrow need role models who support responsibility, maturity and respecting women. Becoming a man with maturity and respect is accomplished by resisting immature behavior. Propaganda relates a line from scripture when he stated…