Gangsta rap

In Ab-Soul’s “Double Standards” he takes a progressive approach to female sexuality that is atypical in rap music. He opens up with the point of view of a man receiving peer pressure from a group of friends for remaining faithful to his girlfriend, even going so far as calling him a “queer” and saying if he was a real man he would have sex with her friend. He goes through with it hesitantly, but the girl mocks him: “She say ‘Why you push me? If you don’t get this pussy, then you a pussy.’” While…

Dawson, Ashley. “"Love Music, Hate Racism": The Cultural Politics of the Rock Against Racism Campaigns.” Postmodern Culture, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 12 Jan. 2006, muse.jhu.edu/article/192260. Accessed 17 Sept. 2017. In this essay, Ashley Dawson strategically analyses the way music has been used in time (specifically, 1976-1981), as a form of anti-racist speech in support of Black British pop culture. In order to achieve this feat, Dawson recalls time and researches various…

reality of injustices, poverty, and many other issues that occur in the African-American community. According to Edwards (2002), Tupac’s upbringing contributed to his complete persona and artistic behaviors and also to the central differences between his raps and his poetry (p.61). Shakur's legacy is deeply rooted in hip-hop and…

New York City (east coast) and spread to the west coast (California). Rapper’s such as Public Enemy (Flavor Flav, Chuck D and Dj Lord) Snoop Dogg and NWA (Ice Cube, Eazy E, Dr. Dre, MC Ren., The D.O.C., Dj Yella, and Arabian Prince) used Hip Hop and rap to express their frustrations against police brutality and racial oppression against minorities such as African- Americans. “Public Enemy brought an explosion of sonic invention, rhyming virtuosity and social awareness to hip-hop in the 1980s and…

You know what gang violence is, mostly? (And the people don’t want you to hear this) If somebody shoots your family member of course you retaliate, you know what I mean? Same thing the U.S does except nobody even shot his or her family members. 
They see that, somebody bomb a school
and all these people get killed, so the United States feel like ooh that’s messed up
we got to go show them who the real killers. This country was built on gangs, you know, I think this country still is run by gangs…

what hip­hop used to be. Playful poetry with a beat you could bump to. This was not the most entertaining type of music, but it was a positive light on hip­hop. Then, N.W.A came in and invented Gangsta Rap, a term that is still quite offensive to this day. They were forced by labels to call their style of rap that, when in reality it was just reporting the truth of the streets. Now, Kid n Play and NWA could have lived side by side in peace, two sides of the coin that could give hip­hop its…

Introduction Joseph Antonio Cartagena, widely recognized as Fat Joe, is an American rapper and actor hailing from the Bronx, New York. He is alternatively referred to as Joey Crack and Fat Joe da Gangsta. He is a member of the music collectives Terror Squad and D.I.T.C. In addition to his career as a rap musician, he has achieved success as an entrepreneur and currently holds the position of executive chief at the entertainment firm, Terror Squad Entertainment. Initially, he collaborated with…

supportive. Rapper A$AP Ferg gave credit to Thugs revolutionary style calling it “glam rock, hip hop, gangsta”, while “Panda” rapper Desiigner called the piece,“art”. So whose to say it wasn’t so much controversial but just flat out bold and daring? And what about Kanye West - the so-called “Leader of the High Fashion Hip Hop World”? He’s even been called the infamous homophobic “f” word by fellow rap Artist 50 Cent criticizing his fashion forward style. Kanye was also recently criticized for…

With all of the problems we experience daily and hear about throughout the world, it would appear that humanity is falling apart; that the values of peace, love, and equality, among others, are no longer relevant. In 2003, the Black Eyed Peas released their lead single from the album Elephunk entitled “Where is the Love?”. This song became popular for it inspirational lyrics and its uplifting and “funkafied” beat. The song starts out with two guitars and a bass line that induce a soft and…

Cone, James H. "Malcolm X: the impact of a cultural revolutionary." The Christian Century, vol. 109, no. 38, 1992, p. 1189. Academic OneFile, Born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska to the parents of J. Early Little and Louise Norton. He recounted his childhood, as living in a nightmare everyday, due to white supremacy. Terrorized by the local Ku Klux Klan, Malcolm and his family relocated to Michigan. However, the nightmare didn’t end, his home was destroyed and father murdered…