Rapping

Music is everywhere. Music is a melodious tune one either makes his or herself or hears in one 's surrounding. A person can whistle a tune or hit against objects. We can hear it in nature: wolves howling, birds chirping, and the rivers rushing to meet the sea. In today 's day and age, music evolves and rap music is one of the genres. Rap music begins as an alternative to violence but many believe it has a negative effect on the behavior children. Rap music is an underground phenomenon of the…

Rap/Hip hop music is a music genre formed in the United States in the 1970s that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic, and rhyming speech that is chanted. Rap/Hip-Hop music as we know it today, actually began thousands of years ago in Africa with the “griots”. Griots were village story tellers who played a simple handmade instrument while they told stories of family, village, and hunting events. The griot still is a major form of communication in…

Ian Villarmarzo English 109, Mr. Kane Song analysis Final draft April 20, 2017 Stay Humble Kendrick Lamar is by far the greatest rapper of today’s generation. K-dot (which is a nick name for Kendrick) has been working hard to become the greatest rapper of today’s generation from Pimp a Butterfly Lamar has become huge and has been nominated at the Grammys the same amount of times as the great Michael Jackson. Once I heard Lamar’s new song “Humble” in my opinion I decided to make him my…

It is our culture from dreads to cornrows to the language and even to the dances and it should not be misused. Reflecting on the meaning hip-hop holds for my family and how people can so easily take and misconstrue it made me curious to the extents of cultural appreciation and appropriation, and how they are displayed differently. When does a person stop appreciating the culture and begin to appropriate it and how is that defined? These questions and interest in cultural appropriation are more…

How does rap influence us today? Rap has come along way from when it first started and now. It has a different meaning in it then when it first started. Now rap is more about like drugs, sex, and money. Back then it was more about problems or about you. So here are some reasons why rap influences us. Rap influences us by the way we talk, the way we act around others, and the way we look at the world. We is referring to teens people by the way. One of the obvious ways rap influences is by the…

Rolling Stone, Spin Magazine, Billboard, and many more. With their harcore and offensive music, N.W.A. was a group that did not hold their tongue and said what was on their mind, not caring how people felt about it. In reality the group was just rapping about things that was going on in their society. Their album Straight Outta Compton was their most popular album and really paved the way for the rest of their…

In Macklemore’s song, “Otherside,” he addresses Pimp C who died on December 4th, 2007 due to his overdose on Cough Syrup. At the same time, he apprises about the drug abuse epidemic going on in the Hip-Hop/Rap Scene. In discussions of hip hop and rap, one controversial issue has been drugs. On the one hand, Macklemore argues that drugs are having a negative impact on the music scene. On the other hand, some contend that sex and violence are having a bigger impact. Others defend their stance on…

8 Mile is a movie starring Eminem who plays a white rapper who lives on the streets of 8 Mile. It is loosely based on the lead actor’s life while we were growing up. The movie won an Oscar for best music, making Eminem the first rapper to ever win an Oscar. The movie starts with Eminem’s character, B Rabbit, throwing up in a bathroom before he was going to rap in a freestyle battle. Whenever he goes on stage he chokes and is not able to get any words out. The rest of the movie he is made fun of…

When Shawn “Jay Z” Carter and Kanye West proclaimed their membership to the new black elite, they were being modest in their declaration because the Hip Hop echelon had arrived long before 2011. Many of them had not only accumulated a vast amount of wealth a decade prior, but took part in the shift in qualities that determined ones elite status. This alteration from the previous black elite during the fourth wave first emerged when the Hip Hop generation was born. It ultimately came full circle…

music they created became known as “hip-hop” a new genre of music which consists of four main components; “DJing (disc jockeying), graffiti art, and B-boying (break dancing).” (Baker, P. 8). The fourth component was rapping (rhyming lyrics over a musical background). (Baker, P. 8) Rapping became the most popular component of “hip-hop”. It was not the rhythmic pattern or music of rap, but the lyrics that people thought were too violent and contained derogatory content which many listeners found…