Gangsta rap

The question whether hip-hop music has either improved or injured racial relationships is in itself truthful yet deceitful in both its positive and negative connotations. In recent years, there has been contention about rap music and its effect to racial associations. It appears that political and media groups are placing blame on hip-hop for the current witnessed increase in violence amongst the youth. This is based on the rivalry between the East Coast and West Coast regions where rappers…

Kanye Omari West is a Chicago based rapper. West got his start producing hit singles for Jay-Z, Alicia Keys, and Ludacris. Soon after, he began producing records including Purple Haze by Cam’ron. Kanye West’s unique sound stood up to the popular “gangsta rap” beats. He became known for his “chipmunk soul” sound in which he sampled 70’s and 80’s soul songs and tuned up the pitch. After producing enough albums, he decided to make one of his own. In 2004, West debuted with The College Dropout.…

One of the most notorious and unapologetic groups in n rap of the 1980s, N.W.A. (Niggaz Wit Attitude), helped to redefine rap as something that could be intelligent, transformative, and socially aware. You can hear the influences of satire, funk, and realism in their lyrics as well as the impact of artists like Public Enemy, Prince, and RUN DMC. One of their most iconic songs, ‘Fuck Tha’ Police’ was listed on Rolling Stone 's: Greatest Songs of All Time, but it goes much deeper than that. I…

seventeen. Wallace’s father walked out on him and his mother when he was two years old. He was arrested in 1989 for carrying an unregistered firearm. Wallace came out on the rap scene on September 13, 1994. He went by the name Notorious B.I.G or Biggie Smalls. He was named rap artist of the year in 1995. His success on the rap scene sparked a rivalry between himself and West Coast rapper Tupac Shakur. As Wallace was leaving a party for the Soul Train Music Awards a black Impala pulled up beside…

Beverly hills Chihuahua released to the public on 2008. It is a movie basically about a spoiled, arrogant, Beverly hills Chihuahua who lost the way to go back home. She’s life was saved by Montezuma when she on the way back to home. Montezuma is also a Chihuahua, and he told her Chihuahua is a mightiness race, even their body is tiny, and used to treat as lapdog, but there some power inside of them Chihuahua. They don’t want to be the teacup-dogs; they don’t want their name be called Fifi,…

Gerard Jones, “Violent Media Is Good for Kids” seems to be an argumentative article on what kind of media provides a positive perspective for children. Throughout the article, Jones uses his childhood to describe how it has influenced him to be more confident. Jones also conducted an experiment on a group of kids who have dealt with hardships in their childhood and helped them to express their negativity through fiction. To further his belief, Jones continued an encouraging and open-minded tone…

A music producer is someone who makes sure that when a song is being recorded, it is at its best quality and as good as it can be. In addition, he or she will make sure that a song is well produced and even give the artist advice on what to change in their performance. A producer understands everything in the studio from plugging in microphones correctly to running a sound board; in fact, they are also good at understanding instruments, vocals or any type of recordable sounds. The job may seem…

have two different audiences and approaches, yet both are for the same cause. Although Killer Mike and Colin Kaepernick are almost completely opposite members of society, they both stand up for the same objective: racial equality. Killer Mike is a gangsta, or at least that’s what he says. Carrying around a “blade and a firearm” and at least a pound of weed with him at all times, he is not what many people look up to as a figure of societal change. As a black, somewhat heavy set man, his life…

has to be forgotten completely, but some of them still try to play it, and many of them has been addicted to violent games. In the article “Violent Media is Good for Kids”, the author Gerard Jones argues that bloody videogames, gun-glorifying, gangsta rap and other form of “creative violence” help far more children than they hurt, by giving a tool to master their rage. That means violent media is good. Besides, he also gives his personal experience about how violent media helped him changes as a…

There may be other questions regarding the gang structure and its influence on it 's members. If this gang is a violent drug dealing gang, then the approach toward its possible dismantling must be different if it was in the case of motorcycling gang. Through the understanding of the ethical and religious aspects of their culture, it might be easier to deal with them. We will also need to detect the origins and ethnicity of a gang, in order to construct our future program. Like for example,…