Grandmaster Flash

Music has evolved for many years and it has always been the key element of culture. When music first started evolving, people would design their own beats and styles to represent them as a group; however, when the world started evolving there was more equipment to use, such as drums, guitars, computers, pianos, bass player, and etc. Music helps construct self-images of people and express emotions within a group of people. Hip hop and rock and roll are two types of music genres that are capable…

Searching for a Bridge Between the Disconnect: Exploring the Rise of Hip-Hop in South Korea Hip hop was an underground movement during the 90s in South Korea. Members of the hip hop community were few and often rumored to be part of a “Westernized cult” (Maher). Fast forward less than a decade, hip hop has emerged and taken a strong presence in South Korea’s music industry. Amongst the Barbie-like girl groups donning pink school girl skirts and metro-sexual boy bands, hip hop artists are the…

Hip-Hop has Changed the World “Music can change the world because it can change people.” (Bono) Hip-hop first started in the 1970s in the neighborhoods of the New York City Bronx. It immediately became a huge movement in African American culture and soon affected people from all over the world. It spread from one city to many in a matter of months, from movies to music videos, hip-hop was everywhere. It was a statement, a voice for African Americans to speak up against civil rights. Hip-hop…

Hip hop comprises of music, dancing, art, poetry, language and style or as it’s called now of days Swag. Its creators/ entrepreneurs were from the inner-city hard-not society: frustrated young people who felt subjugated by the system, disqualified from conventional culture, and frantic with emotions waiting to be express. These cultural entrepreneurs did a lot of illegal, condemned, or otherwise disapproved of the music industry in the beginning. In modern time hip hop is now a global…

In My City: Denver, CO & Top Flite Empire After reviewing the documentary at the HipHopDX.com offices, we discovered that we wanted the film to flow a bit differently. Because Kelly Nikole of HipHopDX.com is a very important participant in the In My City storyline, we would like the majority of the narration to be in a 1st person perspective. Here are our suggestions. After the In My City introduction, we’d like Kelly to explain how & where she met Top Flite Empire: • What were your initial…

Throughout hip hop music’s history, community members have debated over what constitutes “real hip hop”, yet recent trends have proven that hip hop as a genre is very open and fluid, where an artist with a unique musical flow can blow up overnight and influence the hip hop music of tomorrow. Of course, hip hop music did not spring out of the blue, but rather it was a newly packaged form of musical delivery that ascended from the music that preceded it. Thus, hip hop was not just a music style…

Before I begin I just want to say that this article contains spoilers for all of the episodes of The Flash up to the twentieth episode of the third season and minor spoilers for the second season of Legends of Tomorrow. On the last episode of The Flash we learned that Savitar is a future version of Barry. The big question here is: How did Barry become Savitar? I believe that the Barry that becomes Savitar is not actually our Barry. How is this possible? Let me explain. When Barry went to the…

Team Flash Factors While DeVoe and his wife might work fine as a duo, Barry works best with his team behind him. That’s the way it’s always been from the day one. Without them, he would have lost a long time ago. The one thing that has always gotten Barry through is the assistance of best buddy Cisco’s inventions. According to Savitar, the way Team Flash stops DeVoe is with the same cerebral inhibitor that wiped Barry’s memories. As to what the thing does to DeVoe, we aren’t sure yet, but…

A Hero’s Journey Comparison of The Flash and Odysseus Why does a hero inspire us to challenge ourselves? A hero goes through an amount of challenges that make them who they are. Most of their early challenges are easier than their future challenges. For many heroes they were forced into a situation they would have to make sense of. Odysseus, husband and new father, was forced onto Poseidon’s sea. Odysseus is considered a Greek hero, because he faced hardships that would make him into a great…

The TV show I have chosen for the review is called The Flash. The Flash was viewed in the CW channel at 8/7c at night of every Tuesday. The target audience for The Flash are teens and young adults. The Flash is about protagonist, Barry Allen, gaining super speed and become a hero called the Flash. When Barry gained his super speed, other people also acquired unique power which some chose to use it in wrong way. Barry becomes the Flash to protect city he is living in, Central City, from many…