Rapping

When Anthony Elonis’s wife divorced him and left with their kids, he began to write and produce songs to express how he felt about what he was going through. He wrote,“There’s one way to love you but a thousand ways to kill you…I’m not going to rest until your body is a mess soaked in blood and dying from all the little cuts.” Elonis was doing what many people do when they are going through a tough time, finding a safe outlet such as writing. However, prosecutors are now specifically…

The CNN of the ghetto is what Chuck D once defined hip hop as. Rappers pale their integrity on keeping it real and a lot of their supremacy lies in the legitimacy of their lyrics. However the art form similarly depends heavily on testosterone-driven braggadocio, embellishment and the formation of a fictional criminal persona. In “Decoded” – a stylishly formed mash-up of a diary and lyrical analysis, the former drug dealer turned millionaire rapper and mogul Jay-Z goes from “Bricks to…

BIG PUN: THE MOST INFLUENTIAL LATINO RAPPER Based on his achievements, I believe that Christopher Lee Rios, a.k.a. Big Pun, was the most influential Latino Rapper of all time. Rios deserves this title because he was the 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…

Originally, the first rap beats where samples from disco hits. These beats had an upbeat rhythm which then gave East Coast rappers their style of rapping. Also, East Coast rappers where famous for their intricate and syllabic rhymes. “Rap” quickly spread to the west coast where artists had a different approach to their music. West Coast rappers based their beats from g-funk samples. These g-funk samples…

Hip-hop as a genre has been used in the past as a means for oppressed peoples to stand up against “racial and socioeconomic injustices, which are deeply embedded within American culture”(Henry, West, & Jackson 238). Although, the hip hop and rap genres were used as a tool they have also been very harmful to the images of the black women. Hip hop culture has embraced misogyny as a norm and a practice that most relevant artists participate in. The lyrics in the songs promote this attitude, and…

Fuelled by youth and rebellion their formative years, both Hip Hop and Rock and Roll have risen to become the two of the most widely consumed genres of music in present day America. They can both be traced back to similar origins ans each emerged during notable periods in history. However, through active development of these genres over the years, the core/base demographics of Rock and Roll and Hip Hop have moved to opposite ends of the colour spectrum. This essay seeks to compare and contrast…

"Since I know what I 'm up against / We as rappers must decide what 's most important / And I can 't help the poor if I 'm one of them / So I got rich and gave back, to me that 's the win-win" – Jay Z (Carter, 2003) Shawn “Jay Z” Carter is among the most recognized identities in pop culture; one of the wealthiest recording artists alive (Lynch, 2014), as well as being widely considered in the hip-hop community to be a contender for the greatest rapper of all time. However, his rags to riches…

While reading Buck I found a lot of material that help Mk Asante get through a lot of situation no matter if they were good or bad that went on. One of things that interested me was he felt like part of the reason why he got through stuff was Hip Hop and beats that went along with it. He even wrote a book about it discussing about today’s society. Today Hip Hop does inspire some people and give them hope. Describing how hip hop has contains entertaining words and languages. Hip hop converses the…

Jamaican-born DJ Kool Herc was entertaining at his sisters back-to-school party in the Bronx, a New York borough. He decided to try something new on the turntables such as breaking or scratching the beat to allow people to dance longer and started rapping during the extended music. From there it spread throughout the borough and finally worldwide. The culture…

comic-book artist. However, his Uncle Ronnie Polkingham, Deborah’s half-brother, gave him the soundtrack from Breakin’ where he heard his first rap song, “Reckless” by Ice-T. At 14, Eminem and his friend, Mike Ruby, began writing their own verses and rapping together. They called each other “Manix” and “M & M”, which later became simply,…