How to Rap

much of Nicki’s rap has focused on her many achievements and boasting of success, inadvertently carving out a space for a female rapper in the male-dominated rap industry. Although she is known for making many features in others’ songs, her own media still delivers a powerful and often controversial punch. One of them being her 2014 single “Anaconda”. Besides the fact “Anaconda” is so catchy and was even a nominee for…

wrote poems called rap battles, and…

In his songs, he would rap about things more important than most others did, such as money, gangs, or drugs. Nas rapped about his family, childhood, or his friends such as this verse: “My intellect prevails from a hangin' cross with nails, I reinforce the frail, with lyrics…

seen by the media as a ‘wannabee’ African American who glorifies violence, domestic abuse, and rape amongst other controversial issues. In Cleanin’ Out My Closet, Eminem talks about how the media has silenced, excluded, and marginalized him and how that causes society to have negative view on him, and then talks about how he identifies himself, which rebuts that inaccurate picture the media paints of him. This shows the power a privileged social group can have over those who are socially…

too common East Coast – West Coast rivalry, to the death of Tupac & Biggie, to even the notion of past rappers who are in the limelight now having been drug dealers and cons in the past, the impact of hip-hip is indisputable. Ever since the rise of rap and hip-hop music, teens have been turning to them to help solve their problems. Despite our youth being exposed to…

focus into a specific subgenre in the music industry called “Trap Rap” and research more for myself and its growing audience. The term "trap" is used to refer to the place where all types of drug deals are made and they incorporate their trap lifestyle into their music career. This topic is nothing new to me I’ve been listening to music, and specifically this type since I was still in the car seat. My first introduction to trap rap was by an artist named Young Jeezy, and my mom was the first to…

Nas has been featured in both Hennesy and Sprite commercials. Rapper Drake has made a few Sprite commercials himself. Even Eminem once did a Brisk commercial. With their superstar status in America more and more people care about what they think and how they view this or that product. Several rappers have broken away from just being recording artists and have moved to film and television. Tupac was in several movies during his tragically short lifetime, the first and one of the most famous of…

Hip-Hop songs are good for the teenagers to listen? Especially, teens who are at their teenage rebellion. The birthplace of Hip Hop is that 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in Bronx at New York. Before I did this research paper I didn’t even expect to how close we are to the birthplace of Hip-Hop. On August 11, 1973 DJ Kool Herc, tried something new on the turntable at his sister’s back-to-school party. He extended an instrumental beat (breaking or scratching) to let people dance longer (break…

Is Lyricism In Hip Hop A Lost Art Form? It is no surprise that hip hop ten years ago sounds much more different than it does now. Even a person who is unfamiliar with hip hop can distinguish a rap song from the 90’s and one in 2015. Lyrics, production, and subject matter strays away from its “gangster” persona, and now associates with a personal story modern rappers are trying to tell. Ask a person who has grown up in the 90’s hip hop era about their thoughts on todays hip hop, and expect a…

children listen to rap music all day and everyday. Also some children really take Hip Hop seriously and know how to enjoy it responsibly; but some do not act mature with this particular type music. The content that is in Hip Hop affects a child's actions, language and view on women. Hip hop can influence a child actions dramastically. According to article, ”The media companies promote the most outrageous stereotypes of violent, vicious", (SaeNgian). This quotes demonstrates how this music…