Hip hop

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…

Hip hop comprises of music, dancing, art, poetry, language and style or as it’s called now of days Swag. Its creators/ entrepreneurs were from the inner-city hard-not society: frustrated young people who felt subjugated by the system, disqualified from conventional culture, and frantic with emotions waiting to be express. These cultural entrepreneurs did a lot of illegal, condemned, or otherwise disapproved of the music industry in the beginning. In modern time hip hop is now a global…

The most popular classification of music in today’s generation is Hip Hop. Hip Hop is a type of culture originated in the 1960s among African Americans youths in Harlem, New York. A gateway for the young African American people was through Hip Hop. So that young blacks could express who they felt about racism, police brutality, and give off information about the world’s imperfections. The music was also a way for them to get the seniors and elders attention. The youth population wasn’t being…

4/6/16 Reading Between The Lines of Rhymes: a Hip-Hop Analysis Ever since Hip-hop was introduced in the 1970’s, it has evolved into a life-changing, multi-million making business. Its popularity has become an influential significance throughout the nation, persuading economical, political, and behavioral revolution. Recent rappers are encompassing a “thug-life” that surrounds drugs, gangs, misogyny and violence. Through the evolution of the vulgar Hip-Hop culture in America in the past 50…

In the current time, we live in hip hop is predominantly a male art whereas females tend to take a literal background helping portray a life most men would cling and most females would find disgraceful. The biggest reason women are in hip hop videos nowadays is to wear what seem to be an ongoing trend of less and fewer clothes as the years go forward, this tells women of the younger generation growing up in these times that if you want to work in this industry you are most likely going to have…

-free in 1989. Graffiti: Hip Hop Culture and Graffiti Today - Hip Hop Area In black noise (1994),Tricia rose discusses the origins of graffiti and it,s hip hop culture. Hip hop was born in New York city in the late 60s and early 70s in the face of inherently Racist development projects that were a brutal process of community destruction And relocated executed by municipal officials and under the direction of Legendary planner Robert Moore [Rose ,1994,P 30. Hip hop culture began as a…

"I was your first music, I used to make beats and say Go Tata, Get Busy, Go Tata..I did that for all of my children, some girls too"- Abu I was born in 1988 Hip-Hop's golden year. My parents were teenagers, 17 and 18 years old and just like most kids in the 80s my Abu was engulfed in everything Hip-Hop. Even right now while writing this article he's texting me a plethora of artists that he listened to. For example, Rob Base and DJ Easy Rock, Stetsasonic, Audio Two, Eric B and Rakim and Run DMC…

dress was already playing a big roll in the areas where hip-hop would come to dominate. Hip-hop culture emerged in the 1970s from the streets of New York City. In the early stages of hip-hop, rappers and followers would sport fashions inspired by the dress culture in New York City. The documentary Fresh Dressed, directed by Sacha Jenkins, follows the development of hip-hop culture (Fresh Dressed). Jenkins shows us how in its premature stage, hip-hop fashion involved the “B-boy” style. The B-boy…

My class read your essay, “Hip Hop Planet” as an assignment where you explain how Hip Hop has spread like a wildfire that can’t be put out. I understand that you wrote this due to your nightmare, where your daughter gets married to a thuggish character, a Hip Hop artist. In this essay you wrote about the importance or value of the Hip Hop genre. Also, through the essay you state that Hip Hop is the voice of the new generation and that we have become a Hip Hop Planet. I see that your essay’s…

Does the hip hop culture influence music greatly? In the article “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride written in National Geographic, April 2007, points out that “music without melody, sensibility, instrument, verse or harmony, music with no beginning, middle, or end music that doesn’t even seem to be music.” I disagree that hip hop music is just another name for “black ghetto music.” The reason why I disagree against this statement is because not only “black ghetto people” write hip hop music.…