New school hip hop

radical notion to some, and even sacrilegious to a few, West’s imprint on hip-hop music can be traced through his albums and reflected in the work of some of today’s biggest stars. One can look no further than West himself to…

Hip-Hop and Rap have been regarded to be genres that promote gun violence, gang affiliation, and drugs. This however is not true. Hip-Hop and Rap has moved people emotionally and mentally throughout the years. Impacting and connecting individuals in riots within communities, more specifically in the US. These are usually triggered by the musical structure of the piece performed, along with the message being foretold to the audience. Artists in other genres such as Bob Marley, have accomplished…

Back in junior high school, I fell so much in love with hip hop music, which was frequently played on our local radio that I got inspired and began to form my own melodies and rhymes. With my new found love in hip-hop, I used to have a notebook, where I wrote down lyrics of popular hip-hop songs I listened to. I involved myself into various talent shows where I performed original music. With my growing interest and the favorable response I received from performing the original melodies and…

first Latin-American Rapper to: (1) Become a hip hop star, (2) Achieve platinum status, and (3) Be nominated for a Grammy Award. Due to his contributions he implemented in the hip hop industry, he was able to make Latino rap mainstream. This is significant because it has been claimed that rap and hip hop was dominated by African-American artists. Big Pun was a big influence in getting more Latinos interested in this genre. Rios was born in the Bronx, New York City by his two Puerto Rican…

which gang activity and hip-hop music were at their peak, one hip-hop artist stood out amongst the crowd. Christopher Wallace, otherwise known as his stage names, Biggie Smalls & Notorious B.I.G., was one of hip-hop’s elite performers during the 1990s. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Christopher George Latore Wallace grew up surrounded by drugs, violence, and rap music. These influences helped inspire Smalls to record hit songs that would appeal to a vast majority of the hip-hop community. Biggie…

Stereotypes and Conforming Thomas Chatterton Williams, a scholar who received the record-breaking number of comments for writing the Washington Post (BookBrowse), detailed his young adult experiences in his memoir Losing my Cool. Through his high school life in New Jersey, college life of Georgetown University, and current time in France, he has search hard for his authenticity of racial cultural identity. Through experiencing setbacks and compliments, Williams gained spiritual growth and found…

September 11th 1977 in Champaign, Illinois but when he was only eight years old he moved to Chicago. His real name was Christopher Bridges and when he was twelve he joined a Chicago gang. Ludacris did go to school he went to Emerson middle school, oak park high school, river forest high school, Georgia state university. His parents’ names were Roberta Shields and Wayne Brian Bridges who died from diabetes. Ludacris had a interesting life and many accomplishment’s. Growing up he was the only…

introduced to rap in middle school so roughly in 2009-2010. Although Sam was first introduced to rap in 2009-2010 the word rap has been around for quite some time (Mize para. 2). Originally, rap meant to strike or to hit(Mize para. 2) However, in the 1960’s it began to pop up in the black community and was used as a slang word to mean that someone was talking or having a conversation (Mize para. 2). DJ Kool Herc is known as the first DJ and founding father of hip hop (Mize para. 5). On August…

Mercer-Taylor provided. If there was one song that I wish he could have discussed, it would be “Juicy” by Christopher Wallace a.k.a. Biggie Smalls. The reason was that during the rap unit, Taylor offered a variety of rap songs to us during the 1980s and the new millennium. However, I only recalled him playing only one rap song from the 1990s: Snoop Doggy Dog’s “Serial Killa”. I think it would have been nice if he offered another song during the same decade. To me, “Juicy” would have been a…

Specifically Rap music. Hip Hop and Rap music is the seventh most popular genre in the United States. This style of music became so popular in the 70's in New York where it originated when rhythmic beats and tracks were combine with rapping, a rhythmic style of talking. Since then hundreds of record labels have been committed to making just…