Hip hop

This is a common characteristic in hip hop realism which is typically ‘filled with metaphors that expose social, political perspectives’, it provides the listener with an insight into the black community to understand the issues which Lamar explores. Hood Politics Compton is a city notorious…

especially Chicken Curry. The first and only female rapper on Forbes Hip-Hop Cash King list Her music and rapping career began in 2004. However, in a short span, she managed to not only appear on the Forbes list of Hip-Hop Cash King list but also became the first female. So to say, she clocked no. 4 with an average earning of $29 million in 2013. She was discovered by Lil…

Starting his career off as a battle rapper shows in this song as it is bursting with quick witted rhymes but in they way he wove them together shows how he has evolved as a lyricist. Marshall will no doubt go down in history as one of the kings of hip-hop influencing the new type rap genre to this day. In the song “Rap God”, Eminem not only raps about being a “Rap God” but provides a strong example of why in the way he constructed his lyrics and presented them in the song.…

Another more popular stereotype today is the image of black youth as prone to violence and crime. This is constantly being referenced to negative influences of popular culture, often rap music and hip-hop culture. This is highly visible in electronic media, despite the fact that commercialized hip-hop is not representative of the entire genre (Mahiri et al, 2003). This stereotype particularly emerged through the creation of ‘gangsta rap.’ It is very common that there are moral panics surrounding…

Barker and Taylor (2007) state “Whether it be the folklorist’s search for forgotten bluesmen, the rock critic’s elevation of raw power over sophistication, to the importance of bullet wounds to the careers of hip-hop artists, the aesthetic of the authentic musical experience” (pp. ix) as it rejects music which could be labeled as artificial, pretentious and commercialized. The term authentic could have several meanings and connotations. . Barker and Taylor, (2007, pp. ix) describe it as a…

they’ll say yes. “The most interesting finding however is that hip-hop is the world's top genre, showing up on playlists more than all others, regardless of geography or language.” (Independent.com). Rap/Hip-Hop has become the fastest moving musical phenomenon in recent years, maybe even bigger than the Rock-n-Roll explosion of the 1950’s. But what makes Rap/Hip-Hop stand out from other musical genre is the fact that most Rap/Hip-Hop artists are black, or affiliated to a minority group. Rap is…

activist movements. Modern artists such as Childish Gambino and Joyner Lucas have been putting social issues into the foreground with their songs of “This is America” and “I’M NOT RACIST”. In expressive music like hip hop, lyrics often reflected the situation surrounding the artist. Hip hop rose in popularity because it connected with a lot of youth across the country and the world going through the struggles present during that time. As America evolved, so did its politics along with public…

Rap industry has gained huge recognition with fans over the years. According to Bradley “Rap is now the most widely disseminated poetry in the history of the world” (Bradley, xiii). Rappers have built up their following from adults to young kids that enjoy listening to rap music. The audiences are the ones who spend money on the artist, accordingly, buying their music, attending concerts, or buying merchandise. Now a day, an artist can be asked to represent a company, either in the fashion world…

producer and American hip-hop recording artist, and he got there by himself. Jermaine was born on January 28, 1985, in Frankfurt, Germany on a U.S. Army Base to his mother a white German postal worker and his father an African-American soldier, who left his mother when Cole was a baby. At a young age taught himself how to play the piano which played a huge in his production career. In this essay, we will go into depth about how Cole came from a no-name artist to making hip-hop history. At…

The Rap Research Lab is an organization that studies the influences of hip-hop on society, and engages teenaagers in exploring hip-hop cultural data through research. They recently conducted an experiment around one question, “Do people really just put on a rap song, and go out and do all of the same things as they heard?”. The study ultimately found that…