Changes in rap music over the years

poem, Badu discusses how success can be a pro and a con whether it is our personal life or our social life. She talked about how her environment and personal experiences. Towards the mid 90’s, music was more complex and artists were lyrically talented. Music was based on positive things in the 90’s. Now music is just focused on sex, drugs and violence. The poem expresses how a fan, friend and artist have different…

of our music industry for several decades now. As a result, it is no surprise that several artists write have had several different perspectives on the topic. There are several songs such as “All You Need is Love” by The Beatles, where they frame it as one of the most magical feelings a person can possibly feel. On the other side of the perspective, there are artists that decide to get analytical about it. “Loyalty” by Kendrick Lamar & Rihanna frames love completely differently in their music…

switching more into a Salad Bowl. I grew up seeing society as a melting pot. In the town I grew up in it was mostly from a European Christian background, and I had the perspective that everyone was the same as us. In my teenage years I became friends with people from all over the world and I began to seeing society as the salad bowl. American society is part salad bowl, part melting pot, but the society benefits from having both. America is a multi-cultural society that benefits being so…

the individuals involved in the Harlem Renaissance continues to have an effect on modern culture. The Harlem Renaissance was a celebration of African American culture. Slavery and the Jim Crow Laws had oppressed Africans Americans for hundreds of years. The idea of white supremacy was popular quickly becoming popular in the South. Unfortunately, most African Americans lived in the South and were treated horribly. In 1890, the Great Migration began, in which many African American decided to move…

internationally renowned musical over the past 8 years. The musical first ran off-Broadway and officially opened on Broadway in August of 2015. It quickly became one of the most popular musicals of the year and has since won a Grammy, the Pulitzer Prize for drama, 11 Tony’s including best musical, and countless other accolades. The mastermind of the highly successful production Lin-Manuel Miranda not only played the lead, Alexander Hamilton, as well wrote the music and lyrics for the musical.…

coordinates, 18.1096 degrees North, 77.2975 degrees West. It is in the tropics, not too far north of the equator. The climate is tropical on the mountain sides and semiarid on the leeward side. Its landmass is 4,244 miles squared with a population of over 2.5 million people. The island is very mountainous, with the highest peak being 7,402 feet, which is the Blue Mountain. The Blue Mountain is well known for its coffee. The coffee beans are blue green in color, great acidity with high…

contributed to the message. The artists are J. Cole, Kanye West, Jay-Z, and Kendrick Lamar. These artists have spoken to the African American communities through the means of music. Music is a very powerful tool to inspire change in the United States. These artists are considered to be some of the greatest rappers in modern day music. In the following songs listed these artists talk about issues that the black communities face in America. The issues consist of deep lyrics about structural racism…

Overall: Back to the strong suit of lyrical social consciousness; musically, it lost my attention 11 years ago, Janet Jackson endured a ridiculous backlash and blacklisting after her breast was accidentally shown during her Superbowl halftime performance. The incident nearly, if not actually, ruined her current album, Damita Jo's, chances of getting the acknowledgement it deserved. Over the next 4 years, Jackson would break from her artistic formula of working principally with Jimmy Jam and…

Top Ten Christian band Twenty One Pilots declared its musical manifesto three years ago in the song “Car Radio,” “I will try with every rhyme to come across like I am dying to let you know you need to try to think.” Twenty One Pilots’ hit “Stressed Out” is currently played on secular radio stations across the country and in Europe, and the duo is selling out concerts at every venue. Even though they are open about their faith, the band continues to sneak like a hacker through the world’s…

aging, and dread of lost control” (Wolf 10). In today’s media, women are consistently sexualized and degraded through advertisements, music videos, movies, etc. and utilized to sell products and catch attention in the media. Black women, specifically, are sexualized and degraded in different ways and more often than white women. The media highlights women’s sexuality over the other important aspects and presents their bodies as objects to be consumed. Naomi Wolf in The Beauty Myth opens up this…