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shedding a poetic side for justice and peace among the black community that suffers from police brutality like Smiths Twilight interviews, whereas fellow N.W.A member “Ice Cube” states in one of his songs “Fuck The Police”, “Fuck the police coming straight from the underground a young nigga got it bad cause I 'm brown”(Line 1-2).…

It is indeed a form of poetry. I conducted a poll on the social media site Twitter and posed the following question – "Are rap and hip hop lyrics unintelligable in your opinon?" Over a span of six hours 31 percent of my 780 followers chose "Yes" while 69 percent of my followers said "no" or "depends on the song". Now, not all my followers voted, and the range of age is drastic ranging from 14 all the way up to some people in their seventies…

A movie that has really stood out to me for this week’s film review is a rather new movie called, Straight Outta Compton. They go into so much depth with the racial corruption that partook in the mid 1980’s. It revolves around a hip-hop music group known as N.W.A. The members include Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, DJ Yella and MC Ren. It takes place in the streets of Compton, California, as well as many other cities that they traveled during their initial N.W.A. Tour. All of these men share similar…

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the infectious tunes soon became a source of “good vibes” and freedom of expression through a form of lyrical nourishment as shown in AfrikkaBambataa’s “Planet Rock” and Sugar Hill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight” ; correspondingly, albums like NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” shifted Hip Hop to a more aggressive tone .Rappers in hip hop have created a false representation of masculinity by promoting a flawed understanding on power,strength,and virility. “Gangsta”rappers in Hip Hop create a false…

In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, a group called N.W.A. (N**gaz Wit Attitude) was on the rise in the rap industry. Men like N.W.A. generally wore baggy jeans and long white or black oversized t-shirts, some times with ball caps. You can usually tell what gang someone is associated with by the color of shirt and pants they are wearing. Drug trafficking was spreading out of the streets of Los Angeles which was making gangs become richer, better organized and more strapped. Money was everything…

W.A get started but its roots trace back to two members, one who had the idea, and one who had the money for it. These two would be Eric Wright and Andre Young and this article says that “Eric has money--street money, dope money--and wants to go straight. Dre, meanwhile, bugs Yano, who knows every low-level somebody in the record business in all of Los Angeles, to start a record label. Dre wants a place to put out his own music” (McDermott, 2002, p 13). Eazy-E wanted to get out of the dope…

The movie I decided to watch was “Straight Outta Compton” directed by F. Gary Gray. It is a fictional film which is based upon the true stories of the music group N.W.A. The N.W.A. is an African American rap group who faced racism, censorship, and violence in the United States during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The movie focuses on the growth and evolution of N.W.A. members Ice Cube, Easy-E, and Dr. Dre. A major theme in the movie is the Los Angeles gang culture which was prevalent during…

O’shea Jackson better known by his stage name as Ice Cube, is one of the most influential rappers of the 80’s. He has paved the way for multiple artist that we know today. He has also made history selling out the box office with his smash hits like Friday and Ride Along. So in his honor I have made a biography of the famous rapper. From the beginning of his life to the end. O’shea Jackson was born on june 15, 1969 in South Central Los Angeles. Living in South Central wasn't easy for cube…

Introduction You Should Be Here is the second mixtape released by singer Kehlani on April of 2015. The mixtape is made up of 15 songs in which Kehlani channels a mixture of longing and uncertainty about both, romantic and familial, relationships in her life. The mixtape’s cover sparked my intreset as it was a painted portrait of Kehlani on top of a building. For the purpose of this paper, I will attempt to answer this research question: How does Kehlani’s mixtape cover further embolden and…