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Which In America is more popular Rock or Hip Hop music. Research dissected the musical elements of the songs, 23% of the population were rock fans and 25% were already Hip Hop fans of early 90’s, some artists altered, the change in popularity, Hip Hop and Rap influenced pop music more than the Beatles over the last 50 years and leading into early 90’s Hip Hop became the more popular types of music. From 1960 till 1990 it was Rock and Roll that was more popular types, but by 2000 40% of fans…

just did not agree with the artist expression through music. This time of radical censorship towards music is not just something of the past. More recent issues involved MTV refusing to show music videos of certain black artist. For example the rap N.W.A song “F*CK THE POLICE” was not aired because of controversy, but if we look at the artist point of view on why they made the song is because they were treated so unfairly by the police. This is why we should always look at both points of views…

Hip-hop’s growth caused the idea of fighting back against the oppressor a reality. Rappers in the 90s took the ideas and were inspired by the original rappers in the 70s and used it to fight against their common oppressor, their society. For example, when N.W.A. said “F*ck the police” , the decision of making and performing a song about racial based police was a huge controversial event. The performance of this song aided the formation of many protests against racial based police brutality, the…

Rap Music's Effect on Youth Since the 1990s, Rap and Hip-Hop music has been an influential category of today’s music industry. Rap music has changed the culture of the teenage youth, influencing fashion, the way teens speak and the activities teenagers partake in. Rap and Hip-Hop have had a negative connotation since the 1990s continuing that trend through today. Due to the negative influence on the teenage society with glorifying drug use, degrading sexual content and violent lyrical…

music, the first words they think of is sex, drugs, guns, women, and the “street life.” This isn’t far from the truth, but isn’t all that there is. Rap can be very political, like NWA’s “Fuck tha Police,” which focused on police brutality and racism (N.W.A),…

Picture this. You are a teenager growing up in Los Angeles. Your mother is driving you to school, and you turn on the radio, “Yo thanks for tuning into the hottest radio station in the streets of LA. Up next we got N.W.A. with their new single Appetite for Destruction!” Gangster rap seized radio stations, causing such trunk-rattling, synthesizing, and minimalistic sounds to become inescapable for young individuals who lived in Los Angeles or those who desired to live there. One was bound to…

Hip Hop grew it started to become known as Rap. Rap music described many troubles that led to its growth and expansion. These problems involved police brutality, violence, teen pregnancy, and drug addiction (Michael Eric Dyson, 402). For example, N.W.A. (a popular Hip Hop group from Compton) music reflected the brutalities that most poor black youth in Los Angeles lived. These declarations reflected real life situations of many colored young people stuck in the drug game and in gangs.…

The book I have chose to write my essay on is the book, "The Rap Yearbook" written by Shea Serrano. The reason I chose this book for this essay is because I have to write about quotes from a story, this book is filled with quotes from rap songs over the years. The book came out in 2015 and has the description of "The Most Important Rap Song from Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed." The first quote from the book, "The Rap Yearbook" is from the song "Rapper's…

Social classes and race are some of the main factors of how people treat each other. People in the upper class look at the lower class as poor and violent criminals. People also associate some races as being poor and criminals. John McTiernan 's "Die Hard" is a marvelous example of how Social Class can alter the way one treats another. The main character, John McClane, is a very skilled Policeman who receives an average income. His wife is a wealthy business woman who is in the upper class.…

Overall, the male songs sent vulgar messages about women. In the song "Bandz a Make Her Dance" by Juicy J, the artist professes that prostitution, drugs and money define his daily life. As the name suggests, "The Thong Song" by Sisqo is about a man wanting a woman to show him her thong and gyrate her behind. "Mercy" by Kanye West" talks about adultery, drug use, and prostitution. The song that had the most exaggerated sexual theme was "Magic Stick" by 50 Cent and Lil' Kim. I can remember being…