Freestyle rap

Melph Boy Chuck and Young Spliff are 2 rap artist haling from the mean streets of New Orleans, LA. Meeting in 2013, while Melph was already apart of the Big House Ent. roster, (a independent record label ran by Six War Pook). He was at work with Dj Blaq n Mild(a New Orleans super producer and producer for No Limit Forever) on his first single "One Night Stand." Still dripping of the press, Melph Boy Chuck and Spliff began hitting the streets and night clubs of the city. Stampping their names…

a 16 year old Sweatshirt in the most brutally honest way possible. The anti religious, rape and violence filled lyrics which Earl was writing and recording at such a ripe age were written in the utmost poetic manner with a vocabulary unseen in the rap game being run by Weezy and Yeezy at the time. It was like everything your parents hated, and…

The streetwear collaboration project of Nas' HSTRY line with Grungy Gentleman, has teamed up with New York artist Kelvis Polanco to create a series of mock comic book covers, honoring fashion's most prominent female models. The covers go back in history to feature fashion's biggest super models including Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Adrianne Ho, and Kate Moss, all dressed in HSTRY's signature creamy leather jackets and accessories and distinctive wool and plaid pieces. Polanco's comic book…

defines middle-class normalcy and achievement as "white," while embracing violence, illiteracy and drug dealing as "authentically" black. This fiction rears its head from time to time in films and literature. But it finds its most virulent expression in rap music, which started out with a broad palette of themes but has increasingly evolved into a medium for worshipping misogyny, materialism and murder”. Some people disagree such as Ross Simmons article ”Six reasons why you should allow your…

of summer fun for families playing basketball and listening to rap. From a historical standpoint, 1984 was a significant year with regards to basketball and hip hop. Michael Jordan was named the College Player of the Year and he also won an Olympic Gold Medal that year. LeBron…

Rap music has gone through many changes since its start in 1979, and has been a big influence on music as a whole, and in its beginning, was presented to be positive. But with the development of gangster rap, people have come to believe that rap music is no longer positive, but instead has become a bad influence on children and society as a whole. Gangster rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that began to emerge in the late 1980’s and early 90’s which lyrics emphasized the so call “thug life”.…

In Hip Hop a name is everything, it is your identity and your mark on the world. In Jeff Chang’s book, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A history of the Hip-Hop Generation” DJ Kool Herc mentioned that tagging a name was, “like locating the edge of civil society and planting a flag there”. It did not make them celebrities to the outside world but it made them celebrities to their peers (74). Creating a memorable name was important for Hip Hop artists since this the name would represent who the artist was…

African American men and women. In the documentary titled Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, director Byron Hurt confronts the controversial issues of violence and homophobia in rap music, sexism, and the portrayal of manhood in Hip Hop culture. In the beginning of the documentary, Hurt states he did not question the lyrics of rap music because the lyrics confirmed his masculine identity (Hip…

Death Row, and groups such as NWA have been targeted for their seemingly destructive and degrading lyrics. The debate over this subgenres supposed influence on gang culture and crime has often taken on aspects of the “chicken-or-egg” scenario; “gangsta rap forced America to confront the issues in its ghettos” (BBC.com, 2017). Interestingly, many documented gang members and criminals have maintained throughout the decades that music was not a cause of their destructive lifestyle. Poverty and…

Before gangsta rap took over the Los Angeles area techno was the big thing that was played across the whole city, some of the first rappers were getting tired of this techno music that they were playing. So with Hip hop spreading across the country they decided to make their own style of rap which was gangsta rap. Gangsta rap was either made but people in gangs or people who were gang affiliated, they rhymed about how…