Hip hop music

Kendrick Lamar is a widely recognised American rapper and songwriter from Compton, California. His music is notorious for its diverse range of musical genres and exposure of the socio-political struggles that African-Americans face growing up in America. Through the study of Section80 (2011) and How to Pimp a Butterfly (2015), this essay will explore the ways in which Kendrick Lamar uses his music to express socio-political issues, and if his rise to fame effects this. Lamar’s first independent…

into class I am not thinking about which artist has the best pace, to me it is about the consciousness of the words. It is about books such as Prophets of Hood and Cant Stop Wont Stop that bring understanding to the world of consciousness of the hip-hop world. And at the end of it all, we all ask ourselves, does rap make you conscious? To make changes, you need to be conscious in your actions. Artist Tupac did…

Rhetorical Analysis of “Don’t Cash Crop On My Cornrows” Amandla Stenberg utilizes the internet, Youtube, to educate a global audience on cultural appropriation and black and hip-hop culture. Stenberg defines cultural appropriation as the moment when an a outside person completely disregards another culture’s history and allows their actions to lead to racial generalization and stereotyping of the culture the aspects originated from; thus allowing the appropriator to be addressed as trendy…

According to Bradley “Rap is now the most widely disseminated poetry in the history of the world” (Bradley, xiii). Rappers have built up their following from adults to young kids that enjoy listening to rap music. The audiences are the ones who spend money on the artist, accordingly, buying their music, attending concerts, or buying merchandise. Now a day, an artist can be asked to represent a company, either in the fashion world, technology world or other big companies, in which people will…

persisting and striving for accuracy, He created many albums, obtained numerous awards, and overcame hate and discrimination and illuminated the world by showcasing his talent to the world. Nasir Jones, or Nas for short, was an american rapper and hip-hop artist. He established numerous songs and albums in which some broke records, such as; Released debut album Illmatic,…

and Hip-Hop music has been an influential category of today’s music industry. Rap music has changed the culture of the teenage youth, influencing fashion, the way teens speak and the activities teenagers partake in. Rap and Hip-Hop have had a negative connotation since the 1990s continuing that trend through today. Due to the negative influence on the teenage society with glorifying drug use, degrading sexual content and violent lyrical content, rap artist should not be able to produce music…

I am doing my music in a movie paper on the movie Drumline. Urban R&B and rap have been conjoined to function as a soundtrack for the movie Drumline. However, some soundtracks in the film are souvenirs, but under the direction of Austin, the music in the movie enhanced it to depict a life of its own. The movie is associated with the general collection of decent urban rap cuts thus proving to be diverse in comparison to other films. Therefore, music listeners who watch the film are exposed to a…

I. The music is a diverse mix of modern Broadway music and rap music. A. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who wrote the musical and acted as Alexander Hamilton himself, felt that hip-hop and rap worked best for Hamilton’s life. 1. Each founding father has a different rap pattern and abinet meetings are performed through rap battles. 2. Elizabeth Schuyler, Alexander’s wife, sings the love song “Helpless” like a Sara Bareilles song before her sister Angelica performs “Satisfied” like a Beyoncé jam. 3.…

Rap music is a constantly evolving art form that has historically given marginalized American minorities an outlet for emotions and an avenue to comfortably speak out against social injustice. Fernando Orejuela describes the aggressive style of rap that began in the late 1980s as the “Hardcore” era of rap music, which is characterized by popular artists creating aggressive and lyrically obscene music in response to racism. In order to understand the social utility of rap music, it is important…

N.W.A.” N.W.A.’s legacy shall not be forgotten in the world of Hip-Hop. They broke barriers for many Hip-Hop artists and the genre itself. The group included Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, MC Ren, DJ Yella, Eazy-E and D.O.C. Six young men who had stories to tell. Their raps were documentaries for the public to know what was going on in the streets of Compton. N.W.A. emerged in the late 80s and from that point on shook the rules of Hip-Hop. Their hardcore lyrics were embraced by many fans but caused tons…