Hip hop music

Future song titled “March Madness”. It talks about cops shooting Blacks for no reason. It’s about killing and it caused a lot of influence to communities, this is the problem with hip hop. Hip Hop is an African American music that express Black culture. Black culture is made up of brutality, women, money, and clothes. Hip hop started by rappers talking about what they believed in. Then it began discussing the act of using violence to settle the problems they had. Finally transitioned into…

influential Latino Rapper of all time. Rios deserves this title because he was the first Latin-American Rapper to: (1) Become a hip hop star, (2) Achieve platinum status, and (3) Be nominated for a Grammy Award. Due to his contributions he implemented in the hip hop industry, he was able to make Latino rap mainstream. This is significant because it has been claimed that rap and hip hop was dominated by African-American artists. Big Pun was a big influence in getting more Latinos interested in…

Hip-hop culture has the ability to effect the way people think about politics and how presidential candidates execute their campaigns. This power has been realized recently, especially by President Obama, but we have yet to truly see it reach its full potential. Hip-hop has been around since about the early 1970s, but never had it realized its potential to effect politics until the 2008 presidential election. The starting point of this realization was during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This…

Stratton begins by describing their backgrounds as upper class Jews. He moves on to talking about the importance of Jews in the history of pairing white audiences with black music, how they still face some kind of unique social pressures, and how they were important from behind the scenes. Latter he moves on to talk about how Simmons and Rubin came to choose the Beastie Boys and how Jewishness was key to their success despite being marked as white. He wrote this article from a Jewish perspective…

Hip hop culture can be traced all the way back to the 1930’s when African American men would retell stories, sometimes of World War I, using rhythm, rhyme and poetry for entertainment. This process was often referred to as “signifying” or “playing the dozens.” These soon were passed on and became what we today know as rapping. Telling a story was still a prevalent part of rapping but improvisation was introduced around the 1970’s. During this time, there were block parties around New York and…

It’s nearly my millionth time turning left on the radio tuner, and something finally sounds right. The buzzing static from the previous stations magically vanish, and a collection of alluring hums and melodies fill the car. The soothing vibrations become increasingly tranquil as a desperate and despaired voice finds its way over the mesmerizing backdrop. “And I 'm in denial, and it don 't take no x-ray to see right through my smile,” the anguished voice croons. The heart aching lyrics eventually…

From African Queens To Hip Hop Honeys? From Nubian queens to video vixens, black women have been subjected to sexual exploitation, degrade and prejudice throughout history. There are many forms of exploitation black women face from the slave masters to the oversexualized mass media of black women in the new generation exploitation has evolved. Malcolm X once said, “The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most…

Kanye was a known for being a producer at Roc-A-Fella records creating hit songs for musical artist like Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. After being made fun of for wanting to make music, Kanye soon dropped his first two albums College Dropout and Late Registration. With these two Album Releases Kanye was still the underdog of hip-hop and was still the joke of the industry. In 2006 Kanye and a highly respected rapper, 50 cent's , got in a feud over who was the better rapper.The deciding factor of the two…

From Music to Big Screen By: Tameka J Most people in Hollywood are triple threats, acting, singing/rapping, and dancing. There is a number of music artist that have crossed over into acting. There are very few that can do both successfully. Some artist has been a hit in movies and others who have failed miserably at acting. Here is a list of 10 artists turned actors who showed us their new skills and we were fascinated with them. 10. Bow Wow Bow Wow is a rapper turned actor, with his…

people as his model and was deeply influenced by them. He put the ideas of black kids he met in the barbershop as the standards of hip-hop standards; he regarded the people he encountered on the basketball courts as signs of basketball for black people. In this case, he started to consider Hip-hop as a spirit and stated that “Hip-hop is more than just a genre of music” (Williams 63). While asked by a black girl to keep the anniversary of Notorious B.I.G’s death in mind, Williams was confused why…