Hip hop music

The influence of hip hop on the African American community is very much so prevalent that many wonder why, but after examining socially conscious hip hop and the influences it has on the African American culture you may have a better understanding as of why the importance is so strong and why Chuck D of Public Enemy stated rap to be the “black CNN“. First I want to look at hip hop and how hip hop was started and the messages pertaining to police brutality, cultural, political, and depictions of…

Hip-hop is a historically black genre of music, with different iterations almost everywhere in the world now. If you turn on your car radio on the way to work it’s likely that you’ll hear a popular hip-hop song. You may even come across street performers having a rap battle. Either way, it’s one of the most common genres today. Hip-hop is a genre dedicated to telling stories of hardship in a poetic form. Music has always been a form of expression, but hip-hop brought a new level of storytelling…

lifelong friends from New York, Sidney and Dre. They discovered Hip Hop on the streets when they were children. The growth and love of Hip Hop music and the growth and love of these friends to each other influence their entire lives. Brown Sugar is a film about love for Hip Hop, and it uses the music as a metaphor to display the romantic interest between its two main characters. Rather than life imitating art, the “art” is imitating life. Hip Hop is “the love of my life” Sidney declares at the…

Hip hop is a genre of music born over 50 years ago in the South Bronx in New York City by young African Americans. It is a sensation today and widely consumed and enjoyed by many across different age groups and a myriad of racial and cultural backgrounds. Despite its widespread popularity, it is often associated with negativity, criminality, drug use, violence, guns and most of all, it is considered as a genre of music that debases women and blacks in general. Others argue that hip hop is a tool…

doing crime/ We movin’ dimes cause we ain’t doin’ fine” - Jay Z, Say Hello. These four lines are the embodiment of the relationship between hip hop and what happens in the less glamorous parts of the nation’s star city, New York. For decades New York has been the hip hop headquarters, to a point where the goal was and is still to be named “King of New York.” Hip hop was born in New York in the late 1970’s due to the many problems facing the black community, such as the mass impoverishment of the…

divisions of labor that goes into how hip-hop music is made, produced, and distributed illustrates how art is a collective entity. Becker would want to focus on how hip-hop’s first MC, Coke La Rock and the only DJ he worked with DJ Kool Herc and the very minimal divisions of labor compared to how many artists have now. Coke La Rock and DJ Kool Herc did their first performance at Herc’s sister’s birthday party. DJ Kool Herc had turntables, speakers, and music while Coke La Rock had a microphone…

opinion, I consider it right for Asians to share hip-hop from the African American individuals. It becomes realistic since the majority of Asians lacks the will to operate on actual musical articulation (Sharma 2010). Most of them fail to get to a position of exactly managing and creating their hip-hop music. Therefore, in my opinion, that creates a situation for the Asians to borrow a leaf from the African Americans on how to get down to hip-hop musical engagements. It only gets better when all…

sacrilegious to a few, West’s imprint on hip-hop music can be traced through his albums and reflected in the work of some of today’s biggest stars. One can look no further than West himself to…

in Atlanta Georgia but later moved to Chicago where his music career would begin. Ever since he was a young boy Kanye showed an interest in the performing arts. When he was thirteen he would convince his moms to pay for 25 dollars an hour studio time, even though she wasn't empty on board with what he was doing neither the less she supported him. She would later be even more disappointed when he choose to drop out of college to pursue a music career, from there he would go on to become a…

The History of Hip Hop Today, Hip Hop is a worldwide genre that has swept the globe with passion and soul. What started out as a generally “black culture genre,” is now accepted and done by every race and culture, and even in different languages. Rappers such as Run DMC, Doug E Fresh, Grandmaster Flash, and Kurtis Blow put a stamp on the Hip Hop world and gave it its popularity and momentum. The history of Hip Hop and how people used Hip Hop as a voice for African-Americans, shows…