Hip

Hip-hop is a genre of music associated with rap and others that conveys more a serious or upbeat tone about real life situations or personas. Hip-hop shows portray feeling and emotions towards a way of life or people and can be taken just as a song to dance to while also another person has taken it as a certain message to them or their feelings and beliefs. Myself, I grew up listening to Biggie Smalls, Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre in the back of my dad's car. But as just a child I didn't think…

What Makes A Top Hip Hop in 2018? Hip Hop is a style of popular music of US black and Hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. Hip Hop is the most listened to music in the world according to Spotify’s analysis. While analyzing the top hip hop songs of 2018, I found that all of them have three things in common that may make them a hit, songs singing about gang-related actions, love or some type of romantic relationship, and having catchy repeating phrases make the charts, such…

you’ll never know what you are capable of. The power of a human is from themselves; their hands, their body, their mind. We all have the capability of either sticking to what we are comfortable with, or we can take on the challenge of something new. Hip-hop dancing has been my solid ground where I stood over the course of eight years. As I grow, I want to start learning how I can transcend my skills and discover something new. As part of my research, I want to develop the idea of what type of…

Every kid when they were little wanted to become a pop star, rock star, movie star, or sports player. Not every kid starts out listening to hip-hop or hardcore rap. Not every parent wants their kids to know about SOME struggles expressed by the hip-hop culture or the lifestyle of a different culture. It is perceived that rap is for thugs and bad people, but once Iggy Azalea come into it or Ryan Maclemore got into it, it become more of an art. There is a fine line of racism in everything that…

since its creation, hip-hop has been a widely controversial topic with regards to its effect on American culture and its effect on the youth. With the new growing popularity of Chicago hip hop culture, there arguably hasn’t been a resurgence of rap this sizable since the days of Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, NWA, and Nas spreading the message of gang violence and the appalling conditions of ghettos in the USA. However, accompanied with the recent rise in popularity of Chicago hip hop, also comes…

way to express themselves and invented a new way to do it. Hip-Hop music is a great medium to express yourself in a fun way. There was a wreckless genre of music that was growing in the Bronx, now it is one of the most changed and defined genre in the world. Teens in the Bronx wanted a way to show they felt. So they took elements from other genres of music and made something new. The new medium was heard around the world and was named Hip-Hop music. Often looked down upon for controversal…

Hip-Hop Music is not a Bad Influence on People People may think the Hip-Hop genre is a bad influence on how people act in terms to violence. Using information to prove that this is not true, having a handful of research that supports that rap and hip hop does not influence people violently. Starting off, these acts of violence can be shown before they were introduced to rap. Surprisingly showing no negative affects mentally after being exposed to this and too showing an increase in academic…

Music beat, lyrics and harmonizing are used in many different forms and ways to catch the attention of the audience. With all these different genres we are going to focus on one today and that on is Hip Hop. Hip Hop was created by Clive Campbell, also known as Kool Dj Herc. But many people want to know more than who made it. They want to know “How is it made?”,”Why is it popular?” ,”How has it evolved?” and “How is it relatable?”. Clive Campbell, also known as Kool DJ Herc, was born and raised…

Hip Hop became really popular in the mid to late nineteen hundreds and still is very popular to this day. Hip Hop has developed an art that reflects culture as well as express social, political and economic situations in many peoples lives, especially the youth. Music started off with drumming. Through drumming, communities were able to communicate, and the use of drums was also utilized in ceremonies and rituals in African American lives. Drumming was the base of African music in the Diaspora.…

Hip-hop has a very large influence. I believe it Hip-hop/Rap has an enormous effect on not just Americans, but the world. This was stated in “Loving Hip-hop in Morocco”. But there were things not mentioned such as the bad influencing hip-hop has on communities and the vocabulary used, also known as slang. Hip-hop is all over the world and can be very much so used in a positive manner. But at the same time hip-hop can negatively influence the people. Jeffrey Hicks, a member of national advisory…