West Coast hip hop

In the article it states that he “presented the second lecture in MIT’s Hip Hop speaker Series, Race Relations in the US.” He also explored other topics like music, misogyny, community activism, and cultural appropriation, social media and police brutality. His fourth studio album titled Pl3dge which is the third in the I pledge…

everyone’s second favorite Jewish rapper. Receiving great critical reception from XXL, the Los Angeles Times, Billboard, etc. along with multiple accolades as it ranked on nearly every major Top 50 Album of the Year list as well as every major Top 10 Hip Hop Album list. Two years following his successful major label debut, Earl returned more mature than ever. His sophomore LP entitled “I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside: An Album by Earl Sweatshirt” was announced six days prior to its…

The sixth song is called “Back in Black” this song starts with the dumber taping the symbols as the melody starts and one of the most famous guitar riffs comes blazing, as this fast pace song gives you a rush of adrenaline. Lyrically is hard to fallow as it sounds like rap and some of the lyrics are hard to understand but what I understand it is about getting back in the rock and roll party life. The seventh song is called “You Shook Me All Night Long” song starts with a guitar melody as it…

the North Coast Music Festival.LIVE from Chicago's Union Park, EVNTLIVE is giving fans the opportunity to catch the performance from anywhere in the world, by simply logging on and streaming the concert, for free! Headlining Saturday Night, Nas joins other musical performers including The Wu-Tang Clan, Mac Miller, and…

In the past decade, EDM has sprouted many different genres of music, but not all becoming successful. Really starting to become it’s own genre in the past 5 years, Tropical house has made its way to the top of these subgenres with it’s calm but exciting dance music. Tropical house has stemmed from deep house, which is a subgenre of house music, which again came from the genre of EDM, or Electronic Dance Music. Electronic dance music is known for its intensity, with anticipation on a beat drop…

you create music to inspire people, to motivate them. Do you believe you have achieved that to an extent that would satisfy you as an artist? Go listen to all my music. It is the codes of self esteem; the codes of who you are. If you are a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me but you are a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I am just the expresser; I am just the shot in the morning to get you going. I am not sure if I have achieved that or not but I still have time to do so. Q:…

Americans today tend to believe that Hip Hop has made a dramatic influence on society today. From many articles that I’ve read such as Brent Staples ¨How Hip Hop Music Lost Its Way and Betrayed Its Fans¨ he stated that ¨The most poisonous one defines middle-class normalcy and achievement as "white," while embracing violence, illiteracy and drug dealing as "authentically" black. This fiction rears its head from time to time in films and literature. But it finds its most virulent expression in rap…

Ideas for Hip Hop and Basketball Artwork: The Evolution of the corporate side of the NBA in their acknowledgement and acceptance of hip hop. The basketball and hip hop culture merger was established in 1984 and from 1984 to 2009, a new era was founded, known as “The Dunkadelic Era.” June is the official national basketball and hip hop cultural month for multiple reasons. During the month of June, there is the NBA finals, the start of the WNBA season, and the beginning of summer fun for…

beginning, was presented to be positive. But with the development of gangster rap, people have come to believe that rap music is no longer positive, but instead has become a bad influence on children and society as a whole. Gangster rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that began to emerge in the late 1980’s and early 90’s which lyrics emphasized the so call “thug life”. Much criticism and controversy now surrounds this style of music. Critics have accused gangster rap of promoting violence,…

In Hip Hop a name is everything, it is your identity and your mark on the world. In Jeff Chang’s book, “Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A history of the Hip-Hop Generation” DJ Kool Herc mentioned that tagging a name was, “like locating the edge of civil society and planting a flag there”. It did not make them celebrities to the outside world but it made them celebrities to their peers (74). Creating a memorable name was important for Hip Hop artists since this the name would represent who the artist was…