Hip hop dance

When i was a kid " about 12 years old" i discevered music, not really good music but still music, it was back in 2008 ,crazy, it was 9 years ago so you could say i have about 9 years of listening intensely to music, i first started listening what i thought was "cool" at the time , wich in todays world is litteraly and i mean extremely bad. It was called hiphop back in the day and what it was, basically you take a mixing board and smash it with a hammer , get someone to sing the same thing, and…

I am an African -American young black women. I grew up around all types of music, but mostly R&B, Hip-Pop, and Rap. Hip-Pop and R&B music is mostly played at my family’s get together such as, parties, family reunions, and cookouts. I listen to Rap music when I’m at a party with friends or just hanging out by myself. Rap music can relate to an everyday life situation, but if you really listen to it you can see how it affects and disrespect our women. Rap music disrespect and affects our women…

When lacking these lifestyle morals, a person also lacks respect and submission to authorities that are above them. Over the past recent years there have been songs and artist who released hit singles where messages send out the acceptance of misbehavior to purposefully break the law or some sort of standard for themselves. Artist such as N.W.A have written and produced songs that are brutally anti-police causing people to become rebellious in their everyday behavior. Ever since songs related to…

Rap in the 90's is often described as the "Golden Age" of the genre. Rap was in it's prime in the 90's thus earning the term. Popular 90's rappers like Nas, Dr. Dre, and Biggie Smalls permanently left their mark on rap. Although, in many people's eyes Tupac Shakur, or better known as 2Pac, takes the cake for the most influential rapper in the 90's. Tupac was arguably one of the most influential Rap artists in history. Tupac was born on June 16, 1971 in New York City. He was no…

Music is known to be part of the popular culture which reflects cultural and social changes in a society. Rap is a genre of music that has significantly changed throughout the years. Rap was once a genre dominated mostly by African American artists. When looking through Billboard’s “10 best Rappers of all Times,” the skin color seems to be all black until there is a white male named …. , but known as Eminem. When Eminem first started, he was a young white kid in a black community with a passion…

Hip hop culture plays such a prominent role in our society. It is considered cool to smoke weed, have sex all the time and not pay attention to education. In one of Dr. Moore’s lecture, he said “hip hop sells black culture globally.” So what people buy is what people are going to make. Rob Peace was influenced by hip hop culture because he had that struggle with the typical druggie, surrounded by women, and fitting in image. Robert grew up in the ghetto and always had the typical people who…

burst, leave in a hearse, I did worse¨ (Ghostface Killah, Bring da Ruckus). Gun toting, murder, and drug abuse are tropes commonly associated with hip hop music and it's culture. Rappers, and those who follow them, are labeled as thugs, ignorant, or downright dumb. They are chastised and outcasted from the mainstream for the mood of their art. However, hip hop and it's culture is incredibly complex. The lyrics that compose the songs tackle issues that resonate with the group that listens to the…

Megan Carpentier, the author of The Year Hip-Hop Invented Sex, failed to support her thesis in a well written manner. However, her main point is correct and describes an undeniable modern revolution amongst Hip Hop and R&B music. Hip-Hop artists have recently changed the meanings behind their blunt and explicit lyrics. In the article The Year Hip-Hop Invented Sex, Megan Carpentier describes the pre-revolution and specific details of this iconic year. According to Carpentier, before sex was…

With popular music being present almost everywhere today, teenagers listen to countless hours of music. Music as a whole has a variety of genres, each one particularly different. Rap music has had a very long reputation of being a form of music that represents violence, sex, gangs, drugs and alcohol abuse, and strong profane, negative attitude towards people in general. Despite all of this, rap has generated a huge fan base, made up of teenagers. Although rap is commonly seen as having a…

Hip-hop is not an art form but instead it should be considered a culture. Hip-hop is a culture that divides into 4 art forms Rap, breakdancing, graffiti, and deejaying. Each one of these art forms has their own call to fame from the slick metaphors that rap offers to the rhythmic body motions of a break dancer the tasteful images on buildings and billboards from graffiti artist all the way down to the cool hip sounds from the dj dash board. Now even though these 4 branches support the Hip-hop…