Hip hop

R & B/Hip-Hop music has undergone a radical transformation over the last twenty-six years. The new millenniums of young artist have changed the way we listen and view music. In the early 1990’s R & B/Hip-Hop music or other music genre had a different composition, demographic prospective and conveyed different emotions compared to today. Music in the 90’s era was less instrumentally inclined compared to this new era of music (article). Music today is more about image, fashion, promoting sex and…

Across the country, it seemed a “new Trayvon Martin” would appear on America’s television screen daily. As these high profile cases developed with a rise of Black and Brown women and men dying, Hip-Hop artists took to conscious lyrics and activism to express their dismay of America’s justice system and support for the Black Lives Matter movement. After Michael Brown’s death in 2014, J. Cole penned an open letter demanding an end to injustice stating before flying out to Ferguson’s protests: "I…

thoughts, & surroundings & that is exactly what a majority of hip hop artist do in their music. Hip hop gives young rappers the platform to show the world their point of view by combining their ability to write poetry & flow steadily to a beat. Whether you like or don't what they're saying, most hip hop artist are conscious because their music is their perspective of how they see things, & like many rappers before him, upcoming hip hop artist, Robbie Casablanca brings his audience into his…

Throughout the many locations in the world, the address of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue to anyone is probably just another random address. What people do not know 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.…

forces of hip hop music had begun to shift from New York and Los Angeles to the gritty sounds of the south. In an industry climate where many of hip hop's most notable artists saw a decline in sales and popularity, Nas' unmatched skills and creativity solidified his spot as one of the Best Rappers of the 2000's. As Complex writer, Rob Kenner states, "22 years after his debut on Main Source's "Live at the Barbeque," Nas remains one of the most compelling and divisive artists in hip-hop." Nas, a…

In Hip Hop a name is everything, it is your identity and your mark on the world. In Jeff Chang’s book, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A history of the Hip-Hop Generation” DJ Kool Herc mentioned that tagging a name was, “like locating the edge of civil society and planting a flag there”. It did not make them celebrities to the outside world but it made them celebrities to their peers (74). Creating a memorable name was important for Hip Hop artists since this the name would represent who the artist was…

rappers who have broken the gender gap; not just for women of color, but for women of all races and nationalities to be rappers. Gwendolyn Pough speaks on what it is like being a black/african american woman in the masculine world of rap music and hip-hop culture(275). What’s intriguing about rap is how black women have successfully produced hits in such a masculine field. The gender roles that male and female rappers portray in their music/videos makes one wonder what makes either more…

Old followers of hip hop may say that there are four main components of the genre: ‘rap, break dancing, graffiti and disc jockeying’ (Uzeki). The genre is seen as a part of youth culture because they have a special connection to it. This essay will be discussing rap and the evolution of the language used since the beginning of the movement during the 1970’s. Rap is a form of music that stemmed from the Hip Hop genre, also known as ‘rhyming’ or ‘MCing’. Since its…

Rap is most associated with and a main ingredient for hip-hop. In 1541, rap was first used as a word meaning to utter sharply or vigorously. Then in 1932 the word was used as a way of acknowledgment and later to converse in an open and by the 1960’s it was used as a slang term referring to an oration or speech…

Andy Mineo is such a breath of fresh air as some people have said due to his very well-exposed inclination to simultaneously infuse his deep-seated Christian values to his musical genre which is hip hop, hence, the Christian hip hop classification. Currently being a frequent mainstay on several American chart listing sites, Mineo's associated with musical outfit Reach is ceaselessly making quite a scene in introducing a different kind of music to the general populace. Born April 17, 1988, Andy…