Dr. Dre

competition, but more importantly, it was then where he 'd be discovered by an Interscope Records employee who would ultimately send that tape to Jimmy Lovine, the CEO of Interscope Records at that time. After hearing it and playing it for hip hop legend Dr. Dre, they found Eminem, and signed him to a record deal. Kanye West reputation was built in another way. He had been producing hip-hop beats since he was thirteen and had already began selling his beats to well-known artists and groups. That…

week’s film review is a rather new movie called, Straight Outta Compton. They go into so much depth with the racial corruption that partook in the mid 1980’s. It revolves around a hip-hop music group known as N.W.A. The members include Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren. It takes place in the streets of Compton, California, as well as many other cities that they traveled during their initial N.W.A. Tour. All of these men share similar characteristics, which pertain to the diversity…

everyone (Eminem greatest). There were no other famous white rappers at the time Eminem was beginning his career. He went on to release his first album in 1996, but he did not sell many copies (Eminem Timeline). Two years later in 1998 he was signed by Dr. Dre and released his second album, “The Slim Shady LP” (Eminem Timeline). In many of Eminem’s lyrics he uses gay slurs as well and violent phrases. In December of 2007 he almost died from an overdose in his own home and would have died if the…

“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…

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare and my mom never ever worked,” (“Eminem” Brainyquote). This quote was said by eminem “slim-shady” talking about how he was growing up in rough conditions to get where he is now. Eminem was born Marshall Bruce Mathers the third on october seventeenth 1972 in kansas city missouri, he goes by slim-shady, Doody, and M&M (Biography). His occupation is a rapper, film actor, and a music producer, he has worked with many groups…

about his field that he works in. I decided to interview Dr. Flowers because he is my professor and I have always wanted to work with swine as my occupation. I have always grown up with a small family owned run downed pig farm. Dr. Flowers is very educated in the swine field. He is at the swine educational unit every day and he teaches at NC State university as a swine management professor and many other classes at NC State. The first time I met Dr. Flowers I was very open to all the information…

In celebration of their latest album “Slow Horse”, Stolen Rhodes stopped through New Jersey’s Timeout Sports Bar on their tour around the nation. The Philadelphian based band is no stranger to this local scene as they’ve played former hotspot for open band jams, Shady Katie’s. Matt Pillion (vocals, various instruments), Kevin Cunningham (guitar), Dan Haase (bass) and Eric Skye (drums) rolled out the night with the first track from the name album “Keeps Me Alive”. What a better way to introduce…

Kendrick Lamar is well known hip hop/ rap artist from Compton, California. He is also one of the most talked about artist in the music industry. He is signed with a small individual record label named Top Dawg Entertainment also known as TDE. He first joined the record label in 2010 with his formal rival Jay Rock and Schoolboy Q. His latest album, “To Pimp A Butterfly” surprisingly, doesn’t include any artist from TDE. Every song on the album only include him, which is not necessarily a bad…

Kanye West is an artist whose works can never be replicated. If you start with his first studio album, The College Dropout, West brings an entire new style of rap to the genre of hip hop. This album focused on topics such as consumerism, religion, and family instead of ordinary rap subjects like drugs or crimes. In his song “All Falls Down,” West scrutinizes the problems with college using lyrics like this: “She has no idea what she doin' in college/That major that she majored in don't make no…

Kanye West is definitely a role model for me. Sure West might seem like an egotistical prick to the general population, but he is much more than that. Kanye West is a creative genius, and has a work ethic unparalleled in the genre he makes music for. He has won 21 grammys and that should somewhat display the work ethic and talent that he has. His lyrics are not the reason he has reached the top level of Hip-Hop. He started off as a producer for Def Jam entertainment, and production would…