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There are thousands of artists who try to make it into the hip-hop industry. The question is how is that accomplished? Hip-hop artists can break into the music industry by perfecting lyrical content, good production, and reaching audiences. Being a hip-hop artist trying to break into the music industry one thing that needs to be improved and perfected is lyrical content. As an artist the lyrical content that they bring needs to be lyrics that will match the voice and flow of the artist. A…

Teens in the Bronx needed a way to express themselves and invented a new way to do it. Hip-Hop music is a great medium to express yourself in a fun way. There was a wreckless genre of music that was growing in the Bronx, now it is one of the most changed and defined genre in the world. Teens in the Bronx wanted a way to show they felt. So they took elements from other genres of music and made something new. The new medium was heard around the world and was named Hip-Hop music. Often looked down…

I have always interlaced music with my memories, and this is common for most people I would say. For example, we sing songs on peoples’ birthdays to celebrate, and have Christmas music to make the season festive. Music is something personal and means something different to every person who listens to it. The song “I wanna get better” by the Bleachers reminds me of a particular moment with my friends during this past summer. It was my friends Erin, Maddie, and myself during May of 2017. We were…

After the first couple of days of the hip hop artists Drake and Future’s new mixtape being out, (What a Time to be Alive) the downloads went through the roof.This caused the duo to change the free mixtape into an ten-dollar album, which made them over three-million dollars. But this album is making money for them and for the seven-hundred-billion dollar company, Apple. Drake and Future have teamed up with Apple making it so that the only place you can buy the album is on iTunes, which is owned…

Different genres of literature can have great impacts on teens. Young adult books can have a great impact on teens, social media is riddled with inequities, and music can also have a significant impact on young adults. Books that target teens normally include some kind of discrimination between two or more different groups.. Social media is usually portrayed as being filled to the brim with cyber bullying and hurtful messages that can be traced back to social inequities. In music lyrics can be…

Eighties Music Compared To Today’s Music is something that many people take great pleasure in listening to. Music has evolved from the beginning with faintly recorded music to the music recognise today. These changes in music have been massive but have occurred very gradually without us noticing. The changes from eighties era music to how it has evolved and developed into what we recognised it today through changes in the age it’s targeted at, the language and phrases used to how music has…

Based on predominantly sex, gender, and race, stereotypes are undoubtedly present in our society today. Rappers are stereotypically associated with money, drugs, women, and occasionally violence. Rap/hip-hop artist Logic is relatively new to the hip-hop/rap scene, but differentiates himself from this stereotype through his lyricism and concept. His second album, “The Incredible True Story”, dicates a meaningful story sequentially from tracks one to eighteen. He developed a story about…

Gospel music transformed rhythm and blues in the 1950's because of the influence it had in the 1940s. Gospel music was a type of outsider music. It came around in the early part of the 1930s and it made people feel better about themselves. There were many positives things that were told when people sang gospel music. It focused on the positive things in peoples lives. Gospel music influenced some R&B styles of music with styles such as call and response. One particular style that was developed…

The music genre of Hip-hop and its unusual sound is a unique cultural artifact, which is defined as an item that, when found, reveals valuable information about the society that made or used it. The different sound of music that hip-hop brings is: an infusion between rock and roll, and rhythm and blues, so it has been said. What makes hip-hop a cultural artifact is its influence on fashion, other genres of music, sports, entertainment, an even people. Hip-hop is more than just a form of music it…

Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27th, 1942 as Johnny Allen Hendrix at Seattle’s King County Hospital. James Marshal, as he was later renamed by his father, had an early curiosity in music and began drawing influence from the major artists of the time. As a little kid, Jimi would sit on the edge of his bed, listening to music and “strumming” the broom like a guitar. Once James, his father, found out about this behavior, he gave his son an old one string ukulele to strum on instead. By the…