Hip hop

form that has affected millions of people across the wold. Rap and Hip Hop are no longer just a music genre it 's a art form and a way of life. Rap music is still a fairly new genre in music starting off in '70s but didn 't really kick off until the '80s with big name artist like N.W.A and the Beastie Boys. The '80s were a big time for Hip Hop groups like Beastie Boys. N.W.A brought forth a new kind type of rap, Gangsta Rap which is a type of rap music…

Stereotypes have been outcasted in most forms of popular culture, but a few are left that utilize these ideas. Music genres like rap or hip-hop stereotype women and colored people, but when it is used by a television personality, people become outraged. One incident in particular, a famous cook, Paula Deen, used degrading terms to describe an African-American, but those and similar terms are used in popular music today (Dowd). All minorities alike will become outraged when derogatory terms are…

The Groups’s second official album “Straight Outta Compton” (1988) sold even more than 2 million copies and it was marked the arrival of a new genre. He was breaking out his own and brand new record label. Andre hit the top of the hip-hop charts with The Chronic on Death Row Records in the year 1992. The BIGGEST single from his album was featuring Snoop Dogg and it was called “Nutin but a’G’ Thang.” With Andre’s latest release Andre helped introduce G-Funk, which incorporated musical samples…

Kanye West is an artist whose works can never be replicated. If you start with his first studio album, The College Dropout, West brings an entire new style of rap to the genre of hip hop. This album focused on topics such as consumerism, religion, and family instead of ordinary rap subjects like drugs or crimes. In his song “All Falls Down,” West scrutinizes the problems with college using lyrics like this: “She has no idea what she doin' in college/That major that she majored in don't make no…

experience true freedom. I believe I accomplished this through my blend of what is essentially Hip Hop with a hint of R&B. This represents an important part of who I am given the very nature from which both genres emerged and that is from that of needing to tell a story that often went unheard, unseen, and out of mind. My music tells a story that my ancestors could not and I believe that’s worth listening to. Hip Hop as a genre, as a culture, is a social movement, as previously stated, that is…

used in hip-hop to discuss women. Queen Latifah, as well as many other female rappers, semi-dominated the hip-hop nation for several years when women empowerment and feminism were brought to the table. Since the beginning of the rap era, men dominated the genre, but during the end of the 20th century women came on…

Whether internal or external, many people suffer from all different types of problems and their coping mechanisms all differ. One thing people fail to realize is the effect that the arts can have on people. The “arts”, whether they’re music, literature or painting, all serve as escapes for individuals going through life’s constant problems. Few know exactly what the phenomenon is but, the arts have an odd way of not only linking people together in their pain or suffering, but also helping them…

Before the song Uptown Funk would become a cultural phenomenon and win the 58th Annual Grammy for the Best Record of the 2016. The infectious single would change the career of English music producer and DJ Mark Ronson. But, not before proving to be one of Ronson’s most difficult projects. The creation of Uptown Funk would push Ronson to his limits, but ultimately paid off. Ronson is known throughout the music industry for crafting pop hits infused with snapping retro-soul. Ronson’s most…

In addition, media sources contribute significantly to our behavior patterns by projecting certain behaviors that are perceived as ideal. Much of mainstream hip-hop portrays images, through lyrics and music videos that attract a large number of people. Often, males are portrayed as careless, aggressive, misogynist, spendthrift, chronic alcoholics and marijuana abusers while women are presented as promiscuous, inferior and passive. By setting these standards of how each gender should act,…

Beats and Rhymes “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” follows the man Byron Hurt who realized a pattern in rap music. The music involved a pattern of money, women, and cars. That the following all involved topics about sexism, violence, masculinity, and homophobia. Hurt realized that the music that he loved, was not what he thought it was. Hurt decided to make a change to his love of hip-hop music and did extensive research about the beginning of hip-hop. Hurt traveled and explored hip-hop by…