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but influenced descendant’s view of mainstream culture. As an Asian, I have to say that beat generation plays an essential role in propagating Zen and Buddhism, because many poets of beat generation write about Zen and Buddhism. The evolution of hip can be divided into six convergence, the first stage is the emergence of black face minsters and blues. The second stage is in 1920, the migration power which bring people who come from different places together. The third stage is after world war…

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…

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…

terms 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…

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,…

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…

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…

the 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…

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…

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…