Hip hop

In the article it states that he “presented the second lecture in MIT’s Hip Hop speaker Series, Race Relations in the US.” He also explored other topics like music, misogyny, community activism, and cultural appropriation, social media and police brutality. His fourth studio album titled Pl3dge which is the third in the I pledge…

Back in 2009, Lin Manuel Miranda performed at the yearly White House Poetry Jam. He was working on a concept album who he thought represented hip-hop, former U.S. Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. At the time, many people did not take it seriously, but six years later, his musical and concept album on Alexander Hamilton have become a wild hit. His concept album has sold over 2,000,000 units in the United States and reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot 200. Just recently, the first volume of The…

violence, it felt the need to increase its violence. Naturally, this increase in violence spread across the genre, as other artists copied the blueprint of successful ones. Soon, “gangster rap” strife with drugs, guns, and sex became a major part of hip hop, and artists like Snoop Dogg and Tupac gained popularity through largely violent…

up and coming hip-hop artist. This year, Hunter students had the pleasure of seeing Oxymorons, the opening act and Waka Flaka Flame, the main performer. Waka Flaka Flame is a hip-hop artist who has been active in the scene since 2008. He is known for his popular hits “No hands”, “Round of Applause” and “Hard in the Paint”. Waka Flaka Flame is from Atlanta, Georgia where the ‘Dirty South’ style of Hip Hop was born. The main characteristics of Dirty South style (a subgenre of hip hop) are lyrics…

Rappers Have the Dirtiest Mouths? And Other Hip-Hop Answers '' I found out that this article touches interesting topic, which is about the profanity in the hip-hop music through each slideshow gallery. Each slideshow covered different things such as; the most profane hip hop songs from (1985 - 2013) was the album "all eyes on me '' which was the most profane by using 905 bad word. Also this article show how the increase of the profanity in the hip hop music since it had a slow start until it…

business is that it is unpredictable. If a genre of music came along with the same amount of support as Hip-hop and promoted violence, the effects can be lethal. For example, NWA’s protest song “F*** tha Police” from the album Straight Outta Compton expressed violence and hate toward the police officers and indicated that they were rapist. There still has been resistance to violence to the society of hip-hop. Master P, who is the president of No Limit records had established a campaign that…

In an excerpt from her book, titled When Chickenheads come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, which was first published in 1999, music writer and hip-hop enthusiast Joan Morgan expresses her deep concern of the negative influence lyrics in rap music have on women and people of the African American community, as stated in her essay, "From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hos". Morgan shares her views on the root causes of the prevalence of misogyny in rap music lyrics. Morgan illuminates…

popular cities to show what the world was listening to. In all of the playlist they found that the most played genre is rap and hip-hop with rock in second (Musical Map: Cities of the World). Both are being questioned on what effects does the two genres have on youth. This also appears in the sale records of the…

within the popular genre. This principle is heavily expressed throughout the analyzation of Gretchen Cundiff’s article titled “The Influence of Rap and Hip-Hop Music: An Analysis on Audience Perceptions of Misogynistic Lyrics.” Cundiff uses logos reasoning to give a clear thorough understanding of her stance on the controversial topic of rap and hip-hop’s influence... She conducted a qualitative content analysis…

In the hip hop piece, “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy, alliteration and repetition of certain words together communicate the theme that honest hip hop music is not just entertainment, but also a powerful political force that can be used as the voice of people who need to be heard. The second half of the first stanza reads, “While the black bands sweatin’/and the rhythm rhymes rollin’/got to give us what we want/gotta give us what we need/” (Ridenhour et al 1). In this first part of the passage…