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Lesane Parish Crooks was born June 16 1971 then later renamed to Tupac Shakur. This rapper, actor, poet was also known as 2Pac and Makaveli. Growing up he attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, while there he took acting classes and dancing classes. He grew up the son of Black panther activists and was raised by his mother Afeni Shakur. As she was pregnant with Tupac, she was in jail for multiple charges including bombing charges. He started his career as a backup dancer for the hip hop…

Stevie Wonder is one of the most critically- acclaimed musicians of today who expertly manages to keep the Motown spirit alive in today’s ever changing pop culture generation. His feats include using his obvious impairments to better his music and stage presence, his ability to master the piano, drums and harmonica at a young age, and the legacy he leaves behind that makes him one of the most prominent artists still known today. His music is a fusion of soul and R&B with pop accents and jazz…

My love and appreciation for Hip Hop/ Rap has been a pretty recent attraction. It was something I grew up around, but wasn’t interested in. Most of the people that listened to rap in high school were the more popular kids, so I didn’t think there would be anything I could relate to and stayed away. All I consumed was the stuff on the radio. College changed my rap consumption though. When I was on campus, I found that I was having more and more free time, so I wanted to try out this thing so many…

There have been so many songs that have reminded me of so many great moments in my childhood. Back in the time when I was just a pre-teenager, I was always a music lover. As a young girl growing up on the island, I used to have a list of songs that I loved. I had the opportunity to listen to a diverse group of songs that were very popular. One of the hits that made it to my country (Haiti) was the song called “Everyone Falls in Love Sometimes” by Tanto Metro and Devonte. The first time I…

When looking at the past, rock and roll music played a very significant roll in popular culture. Rock influenced daily lives, attitude, and fashion throughout most of the twentieth century. Now, in the twenty first century, rock music is getting pushed out of the mainstream norm and we are switching to hip hop/rap music, especially among today’s youth. This brings a twist in our culture and we can see it by the way it affects the younger people. Rap music, most of the time, features lyrics…

Violence is a large aspect of the Hip-Hop culture that many people look down upon it for. Originally, Hip Hop was formed to escape the violent nature of the cities through connecting people in an artistic way. Violence was not created from Hip Hop, but rather Hip Hop was created as a way to deal with the violence. It allowed the youth of the city to express what was really going on in these areas of social distress. It was a positive and healthy way to escape the dangers that many young men and…

The beastie boys influenced american culture by igniting the explosion of hip-hop. They did this by actually getting their sound into the mainstream of culture. They did this by having completely new and original content(other than the mixing of other artists beats into theirs), and had no problems with acceptance. After hip-hop became recognized, it matured, and a lot more groups starting making hip-hop. . By 1989 Public Enemy was working with The Bomb Squad, N.W.A. released “straight outta…

The song Wings is a song of the alternative hip hop genre produced by famous American Rap artist Macklemore. Macklemore has written and produced many songs that talk of real world issues that are facing society today. These songs discuss problems facing America in its youth and young adult age group. Macklemore uses many appeals from ethos, pathos and logos to tell his stories through his music. The song Wings in particular uses many rhetorical situations to tell the story of a young boy and his…

The ongoing war on rap lyrics continue as the problem now seeps into the courtroom. The question at hand is whether rap lyrics should be allowed as evidence against the artist in order to pin him to a crime. The hotly debated subject gives way to many opinions, but as it stands right now; courtrooms have used raps lyrics plenty of times as evidence. Is it moral? Is it right? What people fail to realize is that music is an expression of art and is open to interpretation. Therefore, my stance…

“Juicy” – The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Total The Notorious B.I.G. career began back in 1992 when he was signed onto Bad Boy Entertainment. The Notorious B.I.G. also known as Biggie Smalls uses his lyrics in the song “Juicy”, to admit to the burden he refers to as his youth, to bear witness, and portray how he eventually redeemed himself. Biggie portrays two of Werner’s three elements found in Understanding Black American Aspects in Hip Hop Cinema by Tani Sanchez. The three elements…