Hip hop

issues of sexism while talking about the identity of Muslim girls in a Canadian school while also discussing the medias stereotyping and gender inequality of Muslim women. Another author, Anaya McMurray considers the presence of Muslim women and hip hop and the issues they face while also discussing the exposure of young Muslim women’s bodies, control over their mobility and racism towards them from other Muslim groups and more problems that they…

York Times book review of Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, Alex Abramovich argues how Chang was supposed to do a documentary on the history of the Hip-Hop community, not about the politics of that time. Abramovich argues how Chang did a great job depicting the history and politics behind the development of hip-hop but winds-up forgetting about the music aspect of hip-hop and it’s four elements. Personally, I agree with what Abramovich implied. Chang do losses some of his focus on the music and the four…

Many will not classify hip-hop as poetry, but when one analyses the rhythm, the alliteration, and the metonymy used in hip-hop, they will be obligated to interlink poetry and hip-hop forever. The great Tupac Shakur categorized himself as a poet. Andre 3000 characterizes himself as a poet. Similarly to Kendrick Lamar characterizes himself as a poet. Lamar uses several elements of poetry in the song “King Kunta” , creating a thesis that establishes his supremacy as hip-hop king, and as a great…

In “Hip-Hop’s Year of Dangerous Living Put the Accused on the Charts” by Jon Caramanica, the author describes the recent trend of people with criminal records becoming sensations in the hip-hop/rap community. The author keys in on three main factors as of why these troubling artists are becoming so popular. The hip hop community’s tolerance of complicated histories, lack of understanding their artists’ backgrounds, and young and misleading crowd stands as the author’s factors as to why these…

Throughout hip hop music’s history, community members have debated over what constitutes “real hip hop”, yet recent trends have proven that hip hop as a genre is very open and fluid, where an artist with a unique musical flow can blow up overnight and influence the hip hop music of tomorrow. Of course, hip hop music did not spring out of the blue, but rather it was a newly packaged form of musical delivery that ascended from the music that preceded it. Thus, hip hop was not just a music style…

The violent content that is heard and viewed from songs or videos may lead to copycat behavior (Hip Hop: Positive vs Negative Influence). Another negative influence is that it repeats violent behaviour and it may be accepted as regular or normal behaviour (Hip Hop: Positive vs Negative Influence). As usual everything has more than one perspective on how it is viewed. Though music may have negative things said throughout a song…

importantly, music, hip-hop culture plays a major role in the formation of identity for its most prominent audience: teens and young adults. While it remains extremely influential for America’s younger generation, hip-hop music has also evolved to condone negative themes and risky behaviors. For example, popular hip-hop music promotes substance abuse, prostitution, misogyny, violence against women, gangs and gang-related crime, suicide, etc., as displayed through the lyrics of many popular…

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in ancient civilizations dancing would be used to perform different rituals. In today’s society the word twerk has taken over many platforms and has spreaded across the globe. Today we're going to be going over on how twerking has spreaded from hip hop to pop, and becoming one of the most controversial words in America. On August 25, 2013 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York the Video Music Awards were held. The next performer up was Miley Cyrus. As already making headlines for being…

Rap has a tendency to be the most authentic form of music. Jay-Z tells us , “Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.” hip-hop is most well known for being the choice genre of music for the poor and repressed, although this is true, rap has grown to be so much more contemporary than it used to be. Rap is for anyone who is willing to listen, it is an amalgamation of all the music genres you can think of, jazz, blues, gospel, rock…