As a fan of hip-hop‚ everyone knows the biggest unwritten rule as a rapper is to be the lone person writing the lyrics to your song. As hip-hop has grown since its creation‚ the lines have been blurred as the popularity of rap music is at an all-time high. Rap has officially become the most popular genre of music as rappers have dominated in both album sales‚ and the success of singles. More than ever we’re seeing songs like “Black Beatles”‚ “Bad and Boujee”‚ “Bodak Yellow”‚ and “Rockstar” atop of
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The Effects of Hip Hop Music on Today’s Youth If a person was born anywhere between the 1980’s to the 1990’s‚ he or she is considered a part of the "Hip Hop Generation". Music is a gift that has been given to us‚ but the question is‚ "where is hip hop music going?" Hip-hop is now one of the biggest and fastest growing businesses in the world. It’s creativity in sound‚ and its lyrics have impressed and empowered many of today’s youth. But is hip-hop music taking today’s youths where they need to
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Who is the founder of Hip Hop and how has it originated? Hip hop is one of the most listen to and influenced music to the world. Many people feel like music helps them make it through their daily lives. Hip hop has changed drastically in the past two decades and many rappers appreciate how the youngins have created their own style of hip hop. The new generation is changing the movement and some people have some disagreements and some agreements of the way hip hop changed.
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When the public thinks about hip-hop‚ people more than likely come up with the rhyming‚ beats with profound base‚ and the scratching of a record into their mind. However‚ Hip-hop has become a part of American culture with its music‚ and lifestyle. The style of music has transformed from the rap music that we see these days. The ground-breaking establishment of artists helped institute the hip-hop movement in many types of music‚ and its performance. It has also branched into in many different styles
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masterfully transport us back in time one break-beat at a time. One such musical savant is DJ Nabs of Boom 97.5/102.9. Although as you’ll soon learn‚ he doesn’t consider the music he plays as old school. Nabs along with Yo MTV Raps icon‚ Ed Lover‚ UK’s Brit-Hop pioneer‚
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are the history/cultural importance of Hip Hop? Source #1: Hill‚ Collins Patricia. From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism‚ Nationalism‚ and Feminism. Philadelphia: Temple Up‚ 2006. Print. Patricia Hill’s l idea of writing this book was to gather different essays for each chapter that were written by African Americans that talks about how they dealt without having the right to stand up for themselves. The importance of this book is to talk about how Hip Hop paved a way for blacks to stay out of trouble
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devastating effects for black and Latino Americans. As crack cocaine was becoming a grim and rising epidemic‚ hip hop was evolving alongside it. It was in the 1980s that crack cocaine and hip hop became the two leading fundamentals of urban street culture. It is not suggested that hip hop caused the crack epidemic‚ or vice versa. But‚ it can be argued that both fed off each other‚ particularly hip hop off the crack culture itself. Crack cocaine quickly gained popularity among users in the 1980s due to
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“Hip Hop has always been bragging’ and boasting and i’m better at this than you and i’m better at that than you”(Eminem). Hip Hop will forever be a competitive activity. Hip Hop is the streets. Hip Hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your likelihood and its not compromised. Its blunt. Its raw‚ straight off the street from the beat to the voice to the words. Although hip hop may seem to encourage adolescents
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In James McBride article “Hip Hop Planet”‚ he introduces the reader to many issues that are affecting society‚ including violence‚ social class‚ and racism. McBride ensures that he includes hip-hop’s history‚ in order to explain that the musical genre began as an attempt to avoid or prevent teen gang involvement. Additionally‚ social class is present in hip hop culture because many of the artist’s success determined by the resources that they have when beginning their career as a DJ. Lastly‚ race
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By Ronald Roach As a cultural movement‚ hip-hop manages to get billed as both a positive and negative influence on young people‚ especially on Black and Latino youth. On one hand‚ there are African American activists‚ artists and entrepreneurs‚ such as Russell Simmons‚ who seek to build a progressive political movement among young hip-hop fans and who have had modest success with voter registration efforts. On the other hand‚ there’s no shortage of critics who denounce the negative portrayals
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