Gangsta rap

“Let’s just be honest. Let’s just be real. Let’s just be honest. We all know the deal. Let’s just be honest. Let’s just be real” is a popular duo song performed by African American female artist knows as Dej Loaf Ft. Kid Ink. It climbed the charts upon its release in 2015. Many young people enjoyed this fresh new track with its hip sounds and exotic beats. But the common theme in this song is “Honest” but what does honesty mean? Merriam-Webster defines honesty as, “the quality of being fair and…

Tupac Shakur, well know rapper, actor, or activist? Early on in Tupac career he branded himself as a thug raised in the inner streets of Harlem New, York, and later he promoted “Thug Life” one of his many contributions as a hip hop legend. Thug Life revealed the struggle of someone who did not have everything they needed; someone who can still succeed and overcome obstacles to reached their desired goals. As he once stated thug life reflected the struggles African American face every day in this…

The N-Bomb Raquel Cepeda’s “The N-Word Is Flourishing Among Generation Hip-Hop Latinos: Why Should We Care Now?” analyzes the contributions of the N-word and observes its effect in the Latino Hip-Hop culture as well as those who listen to it and the controversy it's attained and continues to cause from the perspective of various sources. This taboo term serves a different notion than that of what it used to 400 years ago. The N-word is now used as a term of solidarity, recognition, and even…

Hip hop is a very popular type of music. The music was so vast that it has developed its own culture! It has developed a lot over the years. The story started on August 11, 1973 on 1520, Sedgwick Avenue. DJ Kool Herc, a building resident, was entertaining at his sister’s back- to- school party. He tried something new on his turntable- he extended the instrumental beat (breaking) to let people dance longer (break dancing) and began rapping during the extended break dancing. This had never been…

rough side of town. This music is often rap. Feeling that the ideas in the song are the only ways to get by, they start to execute these actions. Rap music is harmful to child development especially ones with bad role models because they suggest Illegal things and they convince kids that they are necessary to become famous with school not required. Many rap song have ideas such as sex drugs and steal in them. If children have bad role models they might look to rap artist for advice and think…

charts, and before long, that unique style, rap, had hit the mainstream. Born in America’s tumulous cities, rap was, and always has been, a form of escape from the darker realities of American life. However, only recently has it been so strongly connected with misogyny and violence. With a new form of music on the rise, the American public was unsure how to react, and thus fixated itself upon the most extreme examples in the genre. Regardless of whether or not rap is conducive to violence, the…

Paradax Records established in 1999 by Dwayne Taylor & Daniel “Dax” Delgado. At the time House music was at its peak, both DJ Dax & Dwayne decided to jump on the band wagon and share their love of house music with their peers via a record label. For the next 10 years their production team “Soulato” which incorporate the name Soul & Latino, produced over 100 mixes with half being pressed on vinyl. In 2006, Paradax ceased pressing vinyl due to an increase of djs spinning CDs then lowly…

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I was conceived in Santa Monica, California to Mexican-American folks. The level of animosity with which I skated glaring difference a conspicuous difference to the conventional style of the time which was still based around traps figured in the 1960s. Me and the other Z-Boys were among the first to bring skating vacant pools into the standard. In these early days, it was noticed that I hit the lip so hard that i got air, consequently I'm frequently credited for the initially recorded aerials, a…

Last night, Nas along with his closest friends and family celebrated The Don's 40th birthday with a classy affair, at New York City's Avenue NYC. The Hennessy sponsored event invited guests to sip on the popular cognac as they dined on a carefully selected five course meal which included Shrimp Scampi, Lobster Fra Diavolo and Strawberry Shortcake for desert. The crowd partied all night with music by New York nightlife fixture, DJ M.O.S. rocking the turntables. Dressed in a pink tuxedo, the…