Lindy Hop

In your essay, “Hip Hop Planet” you talk about hip hop and you express and discuss your negative and positive views on hip hop. I believe that you wrote this essay because of the nightmare you had, in which your daughter came home with a rapper telling you that they were going to get married. In your essay you state that the first time you heard rap it was the most ridiculous thing you had ever heard, but you also state that after 26 years of ignoring rap you had finally embraced it. You said…

Does the hip hop culture influence music greatly? In the article “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride written in National Geographic, April 2007, points out that “music without melody, sensibility, instrument, verse or harmony, music with no beginning, middle, or end music that doesn’t even seem to be music.” I disagree that hip hop music is just another name for “black ghetto music.” The reason why I disagree against this statement is because not only “black ghetto people” write hip hop music.…

harmless dance music for young teens which soon acquired a sense of lyrical art. If there is one topic where the majority of parents of America agree on, it is the current adolescent popular music, especially heavy metal, rock, and now the infamous hip-hop/rap. Parents would agree that this genre of music promotes racism, violence, and overall disrespect for women judging by its crude language. Many “traditional parents” do not see beyond the language, unlike teenagers. As teenagers, we analyze…

and fashion icon when most of his peers from back in the day are still stuck on that same talent they discovered. LL Cool J which is the short for Ladies Love Cool James was born January 14, 1968 with the name James Todd Smith. He is an American hip hop recording artist and actor from Queens, New York. LL Cool J is also known as one of the forefathers of pop rap. It is known that James Todd Smith was creating demo tapes in his grandparents' home. Just like so many artist, LL had some form of…

In his essay, The Hip Hop Nation. Whose is it? In the End, Black Men Must Lead, Toure defines the complexity and selectivity that associated with the hip hop nation. I like his writing style, in the begging of his essay when he said that no map maker would respect this nation because it has no fixed boundaries, no physical land, no single chief, and no exact date of origin. Rather, hip hop nation is a state of mind. And he credits Muhammad Ali, Bob Marley, Huey Newton, and James Brown as being…

The Fader, which was created in 1999, is a magazine built mostly on today’s hip-hop culture. A lot of there articles are based on music, but they also cover things such as fashion and events. They are reaching for a younger audience by using famous artists that teenagers listen to. They also use bright vibrant colors on their front page to try and get you to notice their magazine out of all the others on the shelf. Fader is all about this generations music and the lifestyle that surrounds it. In…

deals with the history of hip hop and its roles. During different time periods hip hop was affected by the cities, people, and even the government. This all ties in on how history has played a traumatic role in the development of hip hop. Aesthetic considerations deals with what is being done to make sure the work is done right. It is the type of drive that gives music artist the ability to create great music that others can relate to. The common aesthetics for hip hop are usually…

poetry or hip-hop. Poetry and hip-hop an ongoing debate on whether or not they are compatible or completely irrelevant. What is poetry? Poetry is the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Hip hop a musical style that express feelings and ideas with the use of beats and rhythm. Hip hop and poetry share a mutual characteristic RHYTHM. Rhythm in music as well as poetry give the lyrics style and emotion to inspire the listeners. Although in hip hop rhythm is…

global hip-hop youth culture is one of the manifestations that have continued to thrive since the nineteenth century to date. Notably, the speed at which the black American culture is spreading to other parts of the world other than the United States of America has increased substantially (Osumare 266). Hip-hop has become a factor that binds the youth globally and enables them to share and experience a form of attachment with each other (Osumare 267). It is possible for rap and hip-hop to…

driving. I favored listening to hard rock thinking it’s what men listen to, unlike the songs that pop stations would play. I did not pay attention to hip hop until junior high, where my exposure to it grew on a daily basis. As the years go by, I recognize hip hop as my genre of choice when listening to music. Not only did my appreciation grow for hip hop after hearing “Soul Food” by Logic, I came to see the culture he grew up in, the one he raps of, and the one considered to be black culture in…