Erykah Badu

There has never been peace in the rocky land of America. Since the years of Slavery to time of the Civil Rights Movement, people have been fighting for immigrant rights and equality. In reality, the system was created to prey on what society created as the most vulnerable. A majority of the world has been forced to conform into societal norms and regularities. Ultimately, this has created people who lack knowledge to produce pure activism. Life can be described as a part of the famous…

Cue Erykah Badu, an American singer-songwriter and a Houston School District parent, commented to the Houstonian, “The stigma that women are asking men to come onto them due to what they are wearing poses the idea that men are incapable of controlling their urges…

Relaxed hair and natural hair are different in many types of ways and this is what I will be explaining to you in my research paper. I will explain the pros and cons of natural hair and relaxed hair. The discussion about which hair method is better has become huge over the years. The Majority of African Americans has decided to go natural because they believe it is healthier for the hair. They also believe that the hair will grow faster if the hair is natural this is not necessarily true it all…

John Legend, singer, songwriter, pianist, is a 36 year old extremely talented man who has succeeded in far more than just reaching fame in music. He comes from an interesting historical background; his 4th and 5th grandfathers were born slaves and died freed men. Being that John Legend was always into Classical soul, hip-hop and gospel music since early childhood, he carried that interest into the music he composes today, which makes him one of the few artists in the r&b/hip-hop music industry…

Okay Hip-hop A style of popular music of us minority 's of black and hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. Hip-hop, like other forms of music,cannot be understood,unless it’s studied with both historical and social content.Today’s rap reflects its origin in the hip-hop culture African-Americans, its roots in african oral tradition,its function as the voice of an otherwise unrepresented group, and as its popularity has grown, its…

Between 1916 and 1949 a few other companies offered colored shellac discs, including a blue-shellacked series from Columbia during the 1930s and chocolate colored pressings from a budget label “Perfect Records” prior to the 1930s. In 1949 when RCA Victor launched their 45-RPM format they began color-coding their records based on genre calcification. They classifications are as follows: Black Vinyl – Pop Pressings (Prefix 47) Green Vinyl – Country Music (Prefix 48) Red Vinyl - “Red Seal”…

clear vinyl with colored string pressed into the record. In 2012 The Flaming Lips released a human blood filled record for their Heady Fwends release. The band collected blood samples from various celebrities including Chris Martin, Alan Palomo, Erykah Badu, New Fumes, Kesha, Justin Vernon, Alex Ebert, Stewart Cole, Jim James, Brian Gibson, Brian Chippendale, Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl. Only 10 copies were ever made available for sale at a price of $2,500 with all proceeds going to…