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“Rap is something you do; Hip-Hop is something you live.” Words spoke by one of Hip-Hop culture’s philosophers and celebrated artists, KRS-One nearing the end of what is considered the genre’s golden age of its creativity and influence in the mid-1990s. For some, the statement is self-explanatory and almost reverent in it pronouncement. For others on the outer periphery of rap music and its associated culture, the delineation between the two may be murky. Nonetheless, the statement has much to…

Rags to Riches: How the Rise of Graffiti Has Mimicked its Artists On Saturday Night Live in 1997, then-mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani declared “we’ve gotten [graffiti] off our subways, but there are still idiots out there trying to turn our streets into an eyesore! (McKay)” Now, almost twenty years later, an original piece of iconic street artist Banksy’s work sells for as much as $1.7 million (Randal). Each of Banksy’s most valued pieces was undervalued by hundreds of thousands of…

butter no jelly, ham no burger.” But I’m not here to talk about the movie I’m here to talk about the star and writer of the movie Ice-Cube. Ice-Cube was born O’Shea Jackson Sr. on July 15, 1969 in Los Angeles, Ca. He is a rapper, actor, record producer, and filmmaker. At the beginning of his career he was known for being a member…

As I read Michelle Malkin’s article, it got me thinking. Will finding books or poems of interest of the younger generation actually benefit the students in school? Malkin argues that choosing Tupac Shakur’s work instead of the sonnets of Shakespeare is a terrible mistake. She criticizes Tupac giving him a name such as, “the drug-dealing, baseball bat-wielding, cop-hating, Black Panthers-worshiping, convicted sexual abuser who made a fortune extolling the "thug life".” Her opinion is rather harsh…

Snoop Dogg is an american rapper his conceived named is Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr. he is a performer, and on-screen character. He is notable as a rapper in West Coast hip jump music, and is one of Dr. Dre's most renowned proteges. His music profession began in 1992 in which he was found by Dr. Dre. He was on a few tracks on Dre's first collection The Chronic and on the subject of the motion picture Deep Cover. Snoops guardians nicknamed him "Snoopy" as a tyke since he took after snoopy however…

Many slaves even my old friends are being sentenced to death. Forty-six years later: There is a slave named Harriet Tubman who has escapes through the sought called “Underground Railroad.” Today on August 23rd, 1860, All of us slaves in Missouri are planning an escape to the Northwest. We will escape through…

fighting for equality or having a conflict with another artist, especially against Notorious B.I.G, Tupac was not scared to voice his opinion. In the book The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture it states: "Since his death, Tupac has become an international martyr, a symbol on the level of Bob Marley or Che Guevara, whose life has inspired Tupacistas on the streets of Brazil, memorial murals in the Bronx and Spain, and bandanna-wearing youth gangs in South…

Tupac predicted his own death. “I am having visions of leaving here in a hearse.” (Parham) Tupac thinks that his time to go is near. He puts it into a song which has the whole world wondering. Tupac was one of the best rappers in the world. He made good music all his life and somehow people still hated him. He had already gotten shot once, and after the one time he got shot, he started making music that involved him to release that he had predictions of his death. Research shows that Tupac…

opinions, and ideas behind the mysterious death of Tupac. This conspiracy has been debated about for years since his the day of his death. Many believe that Tupac's death was real, but many believe that Tupac's death was a hoax, or that it was set up. There are many opinions on this, I believe that he is still alive and I plan throughout this paper to prove that Tupac's death was setup and still in fact living. One of the biggest reasons people believe Tupac's death was fake was because there…

punishment is the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. The death penalty is a complex issue, and can understandably be argued from both sides, those opposing the death penalty, and those who feel capital punishment should still be an option. Capital punishment should be abolished because, people are capable of change, the penalty puts innocent lives at risk, and we pay millions for each death penalty case. Firstly, people are capable of change; in other words, the…