Lauryn Hill

and boycotts across the United States. Since August of 2014, more than 1,030 protests actions have been held for BLM. Protest music has grasped the attention of the nation with songs from prominent artists such as Janelle Monae, Prince, J. Cole, Lauryn Hill and Rick Ross. The first national convention for BLM in July of 2015 drew over 1,000 percipients. According to NPR, researchers found through Twitter data that from June of 2014, just before the killing of Eric Garner in New York City,…

Gatsby to suggest that the American Dream is very hard to achieve. There was social corruption in those days and still exist today. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows these concepts in the novel The Great Gatsby. These themes are shown in both the lyrics by Lauryn Hill “All Falls Down”…

In the text “Between The World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, he speaks about what it means to be black in America. The text is written to his son and explains to him how to survive in this corrupted country. Coates explains the American Dream and defines it as well; giving us an insight on what it actually would mean. The American dream; what is it really, and what does it mean to the citizens of America? American in general does not have a good reputation with its people, as well as the…

including thirteen nominations, one Emmy Award, with three nominations and an Academy Award nomination. Queen Latifah became an influence to R&B, soul, and hip-hop artists, such as Eve, Da Brat, Lil' Kim, Fugees, Darius Brown-Bey, Jill Scott, Lauryn Hill, Missy Elliott, Remy Ma, Ivy Queen, Foxy Brown, Ms. Dynamite, and Naughty by…

Word Count: 1519 I Can’t Let You Disrespect Me I’m A Queen, and All My Real Boss Chicks Know What I Mean “Every time I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a hoe, trying to make a sister feel low, You know all of that gots to go.” -Queen Latifah, U.N.I.T.Y. Lyrics. Every time I turn on the radio in my car, I cannot hear a song without rappers calling a female out of their name and that has been an issue for quite some time now. My opening statement was a verse from actress/rapper Queen…

As el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz (better known as Malcolm X) once said, “The most disrespected woman in America, is the Black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the Black woman. The most neglected person in America, is the Black woman.” Although this has always been a universal truth to Black women, it was groundbreaking to say in the time of el-Shabazz, and is still quite revolutionary to admit to today. Nevertheless, the statement still holds true without much effort to reverse it on…

Rap is used as a method of communication, “ Rap is used to communicate a crisis beyond the public spaces occupied only by black rappers and black audiences.” (Bohlman) The rap genre used to only be for black audiences and the people who were experiencing the things that the rappers were rapping about. After the Rodney King Trial and all the songs that followed, rap became a method of communication for people to know what was happening in the inner city through an African American’s point of view…

Okay Hip-hop A style of popular music of us minority 's of black and hispanic origin, featuring rap with an electronic backing. Hip-hop, like other forms of music,cannot be understood,unless it’s studied with both historical and social content.Today’s rap reflects its origin in the hip-hop culture African-Americans, its roots in african oral tradition,its function as the voice of an otherwise unrepresented group, and as its popularity has grown, its…

Throughout musical history, there have been numerous artists who have shaped the sound, direction and aesthetic of their respective genre and pushed it to uncharted territory. These artists are hailed as icons and their impact casts a vast shadow on both future newcomers and the artists that are currently known to hold the crown. Kanye West is an artist whose name deserves to be held to this standard, as an innovator, tastemaker and arguably the most influential artist of his generation. While…