Lindy Hop

prefer the risk of failure to mediocrity. The Zulu Tribe had such an important impact on Hip-Hop. They didn´t care what others thought, they just wanted to take something that was negative and turn it into something positive. Now that we're in the twenty first century artist aren´t taking as many risk. They are more worried about failure, and their image being destroyed than the music itself. The variety in Hip hop has decreased drastically throughout the years. In 1978 a group of misfits form…

Rap has a tendency to be the most authentic form of music. Jay-Z tells us , “Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.” hip-hop is most well known for being the choice genre of music for the poor and repressed, although this is true, rap has grown to be so much more contemporary than it used to be. Rap is for anyone who is willing to listen, it is an amalgamation of all the music genres you can think of, jazz, blues, gospel, rock…

Rap is most associated with and a main ingredient for hip-hop. In 1541, rap was first used as a word meaning to utter sharply or vigorously. Then in 1932 the word was used as a way of acknowledgment and later to converse in an open and by the 1960’s it was used as a slang term referring to an oration or speech…

I know how rap gets a bad name cause of rap today but what do you think of rap??? Personally my opinion is how did rap get this bad. To be honest I love listening to older rappers like 2Pac, Eazy E, and Biggie but now …. we got rappers like Young Thug, and Lil Wayne. And they produce some pretty dry stuff. And guess what. I HATE IT !!!!! But now I'm going to tell you how rap first started and it is kind of interesting. So thousands of years ago, Africa "griots" played music while they told…

The famous song by Drake, a Canadian rapper, “Started from the Bottom” talks tremendously about the social mobility that occurred in his personal life. The most reoccurring lyric in this song, “Started from the bottom, now we’re here”, does a great job in summing up what exactly social mobility is. Social mobility is the ability to move of the social class you were born into, depending on the class that your parents are in, to another higher class. Usually, people tend to say “Started from the…

are Aaliyah because she has a unique voice and Tupac (2Pac) because his music was about his experiences in life. You may not know it but Aaliyah and Tupac have a lot in common. For instance they were both born in New York, they were both actors, hip hop artists and they both were married, and they both died at a young age. Both of their albums sold over millions of copies. When I watched their interviews, their friends…

Hip-hop which had emerged in the midst of scant material, dwindling income, and education started to shift and transition around the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Due to an up rise of commercialization, this transition had become referred to as a “slow death” for hip-hop. Throughout chapters 6-8 in Jeff Chang’s Can’t Stop Won’t Stop the commercialization of hip-hop is explored, where hip-hop is a form of art but that which now is being depleted and replaced with making money. While early hip-hop…

Hip-hop used to discuss about real life issues and problems that affect people in realistic communities. Nowadays, the focus has strayed to topics that have no actual meaning or depth to them. It is now about what sounds catchy and what promotes drugs, sex, and violence. Robert Peace in The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace was influenced by the pure nature of hip-hop culture as a form to connect with others in his community and stray his mind away from the troubles of life. Before he could…

The Groups’s second official album “Straight Outta Compton” (1988) sold even more than 2 million copies and it was marked the arrival of a new genre. He was breaking out his own and brand new record label. Andre hit the top of the hip-hop charts with The Chronic on Death Row Records in the year 1992. The BIGGEST single from his album was featuring Snoop Dogg and it was called “Nutin but a’G’ Thang.” With Andre’s latest release Andre helped introduce G-Funk, which incorporated musical samples…

The article Hip-hop Samples Jazz was one of the most interesting articles that I read this semester. The information was topical, engaging and interesting to me because the author provided for me the perfect blend for me. The blend created authentic clarity of the genre (hip-hop) I am most familiar with the genre (jazz) that I am now becoming more accustomed. I use the word authentic in my description of the article because it has become clear to as I progressed through this course that Jazz is…