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The title of this article is “Contraindications in a Hip-Hop World: An Ethnographic Study of Black Women Hip-Hop Fans in Washington, DC.,” written by Tia L. Smith-Cooper. This article was published with UMI Microform in June 2002. In this article, Tia L. Smith-Cooper is scrutinizing the current (in 2002) problem of male rappers objectifying females and women still being content with this fact and continuing to be hip-hop fans. Not only does she attack male rappers, she also attacks female…

Is rap hip-hop? Well, just like musicians of other music genres, hip-hop artists included, rappers express themselves through the art of music, using it as a means to pass on their thoughts and feelings to their audience. Both rap and hip-hop are more than just genres, for they set precedents to amuse, inspire, and ultimately entertain their listeners, where in both rap and hip-hop, the help of a catchy beat and a string of poetic rhythmic lyrics is sufficient to successfully achieve this very…

at rap/hip-hop music, in particular I will be looking into whether or not hip-hop is a narrative of “the street’. Music has always been related to a reflection of the way the society is feeling or being ran at the time, for example hip hop, has been noted to be a narrative of the street in America, and has also been adopted by many…

is that it is actually the birthplace of Hip Hop which led to an entire cultural movement that has changed generational thinking from music and art to fashion and language. Here is how the story goes: August 11, 1973, Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc was entertaining at his sisters back-to-school party in the Bronx, a New York borough. He decided to try something new on the turntables such as breaking or scratching the beat to allow people to dance longer and started rapping during the…

Beata Hanson Dr. Ha-Birdsong English 1113 November 29, 2016 Hip-Hop vs. Rap While the musical genres Hip-Hop and Rap have their similarities, they are very different. One has uplifting tones that make you want to dance and the other is angry and very aggressive with its words. Rap and Hip-Hop were both created during a time of African American oppres-sion where they weren't considered very important political affairs. African Americans felt that if they put their thoughts out in music, they…

Steve Stoute, a music executive and entrepreneur best displays what the hip-hop movement is about when he said “Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.” In the state of New York, it was rough for the youth growing up during the 1970s who were residents of the working-class areas and the housing projects. There was high crime rate and the gang mentality was at its peak. Much of the youth growing up in these…

Kanye West is an artist whose works can never be replicated. If you start with his first studio album, The College Dropout, West brings an entire new style of rap to the genre of hip hop. This album focused on topics such as consumerism, religion, and family instead of ordinary rap subjects like drugs or crimes. In his song “All Falls Down,” West scrutinizes the problems with college using lyrics like this: “She has no idea what she doin' in college/That major that she majored in don't make no…

describe the movement that this ‘clown’ began, “rising” from a solo act at children’s birthday parties, to the most influential person within the city. Of course, the most relevant point to discuss is whether or not Rize accurately portrayed themes of ‘hip-hop’ within its plot, and the confident answer to this analysis…

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…

Hip-hop culture developed during the seventies. Throughout its formation, the various elements were at some time or another, deemed unacceptable. Graffiti artists faced jail sentences, break dancing became illegal in some areas, and rap music has been severely criticized for various reasons. These elements were never analyzed in an oppositional manner until recently, however. Hip-hop culture represented the claiming of urban communities by the residents. Writers decorated the empty walls of…