Hip fracture

The singer has started to suggest drug use, has become more promiscuous or seen as such since her involvement with hip hop, and has started taken on twerking, a dance originating in African American communities."To defend her actions, she uses statements like she knew she was "always black" (Institutionalized Racism in the Music Industry). This speaks volumes as to…

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 is a subcultural movement that originated in the early 1970’s by groups of young African-American, Latino, and Caribbean teenagers living in South Bronx, New York City. Though it made its way towards the western coast of the United States of America, Hip hop did not gain popularity until the 1980’s. It can be divided into four sub-groups. Each of these groups represent hip hop in a unique way. In terms of orality, hip hop heavily relies on rap music, which involves speech, writing, and…

The violent content that is heard and viewed from songs or videos may lead to copycat behavior (Hip Hop: Positive vs Negative Influence). Another negative influence is that it repeats violent behaviour and it may be accepted as regular or normal behaviour (Hip Hop: Positive vs Negative Influence). As usual everything has more than one perspective on how it is viewed. Though music may have negative things said throughout a song…

the first chapter of “Understanding Black American Aspects In Hip Hop Cinema” by Tani Sanchez. This reading made me understand more about the past and how hip hop music was born. It provided so much information about the history of it all. It explained how music radiates through people to better the world. Within that first chapter of “Understanding Black American Aspects In Hip Hip Cinema”, it focused on the aspect of importance of hip hop music, where it developed, and who it affected while…

Hip-hop culture was created in the 1970’s. Hip-hop has undergone changes that would be considered degenerating to black culture. “ If people were to go back to 1995 and before they would say hip-hop was uplifting” (Roberts). In today’s society the culture of hip-hop has been diminished by rap music by the use of vogue and explicit themes. By the increased modern rap the true message behind hip-hop culture has been extinguished. Not only has the…

Does Hip Hop provoke violence, drug use, and misogyny? In a time of strained relationships between African-Americans and White Americans, it’s strange to see the most visible source of Black culture in America, Hip Hop, get seldom reported on. As such a prominent part of our modern, shared culture, Hip Hop’s rapid growth has left many confused and perhaps even suspicious. No one is against having fun, but when it comes to negatively influencing listeners, especially the youth, the elephant in…

White privilege II White Privilege II is a song by an American hip hop group Macklemore and Ryan Lewis coming from their second 2016 released album titled "This Unruly Mess I've Made". This very powerful song is a continuation of Macklemore's performance song "White Privilege" from his first 2005 released album "The Language of My World”, talks about the benefit of white and the social development related with the very famous movement called Black Lives Matter. White privilege II With the…

This is a common characteristic in hip hop realism which is typically ‘filled with metaphors that expose social, political perspectives’, it provides the listener with an insight into the black community to understand the issues which Lamar explores. Hood Politics Compton is a city notorious…

The book called Hip-Hop Revolution The Culture and Politics of Rap by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar was a very informative, historical source for learning about the background of how hip hop came to be. Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar is an associate professor of history and director of the institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. With his skills, Jeffrey Ogbar writes a book that examines genders in hip hop, authenticity of hip hop, and races that had an influence on hip hop. The book…