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    Women in Hip Hop

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    “Woman in Hip-Hop” Although hip-hop generally contains male emcees‚ there has been a plethora of female emcees in the earlier hip-hop days that have made a positive impact on the hip-hop community and the culture itself. Hip-Hop started in 1970 by DJ Kool Herc‚ but it wasn’t until 1979 that the first female emcee emerged. Her name was Wendy Clark A.K.A “Lady B”. She began spinning hip-hop records on WHAT 1340 AM in Philadelphia. She expanded hip-hop outside of New York to Philadelphia.

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    Hip Hop Thesis

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    Rap was first known as “Hip Hop”. It was first created between 1960-1970 by African American and Latino youth living in the Bronx in New York. These youths were living in very poor conditions in the gang infested inner city. Originally it allowed these economically challenged youth to fantasize about getting out of poverty. It was a “rags to riches”. They were living in very violent areas and there was also a lot of gang activity. Hip Hop also exploited young African American girls and encouraged

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    Hip Hop Planet

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    how music in this generation  has changed our world.  Paragraph 1:  What does this   paragraph tell you   about how McBride   feels about hip hop?    He dislikes hip hop because  he feels as if it isnt music‚  that all rappers are bad  influences.    Paragraph 1:  What does McBride   realize in this   nightmare scenario?    What McBride realizes is  that he is going to live in a  hip hop planet where  everything is about music  because his daughter is  marrying a rapper.    Paragraph 1:  What do you predict  

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    Essay On Hip Hop

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    Hip hop is now a popular kind of music and is known and liked throughout the world. This kind of music goes back to the 1970s‚ at that time it was an underground urban development. It was born in south Bronx‚ New York. As the hip-hop movement began at society’s margins‚ its origins are shrouded in myth‚ enigma‚ and obfuscation. music that is mostly rap‚ a rhyming speech that is chanted along with some music. It consists of a stylized rhythmic. The usage of literary devices and a lot of lyrics along

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    Hip Hop Analysis

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    Hip-hop Many view the influence of hip hop music and culture as negative‚ degrading‚ promoting crime and generating‚ a generation of reckless young individuals. I was among the many‚ however after viewing the documentary of “The Art of Rap” my perception has slightly changed. The five elements of hip hop which is knowledge‚ writing‚ emceeing‚ rhyming‚ and style‚ does make hip hop an art indeed‚ which I think‚ many artists have not considered the impact. So much of the language is degrading to

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    Linguistics and Hip Hop

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    expression and as a result new found identities are beginning to emerge. An interesting occurrence that has resulted from globalization is how individuals from various nationalities‚ socio economic background and religions have connected to the hip-hop culture making it a linguistic phenomenon. (Alim‚ 2006) In the past many have considered this type of English as "just a reflection of US culture‚ or music‚ [and] cannot be included as part of ordinary language use". (Pennycook‚ 2003‚ p. 517)

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    Hip Hop morals

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    Hip-Hop Artists: Role Models in the Music Industry Introduction: -Ice Breaker: Name and what is your favorite music artist? (preferably hip hop artist) -When you hear the term hip hop‚ what comes to mind? What is hip-hop? A culture and form of ground breaking music and self expression with elements that consisted of the elements of graffiti art‚ DJing‚ MCing‚ and breaking. It began in the 1970s as an underground movement in the South Bronx area of New York City. Hip hop is used as an

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    Hip Hop Satire

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    Hip Hop is the great American paradox. A culture encompasses art‚ politics‚ and all things intertwined with urban life‚ and gives a platform for the populace of American poverty. Hip Hop is a blurred culture in the sense that it distinctly represents a social and ethnic class‚ and also indistinctly perceives a negative stereotype of these classes to a detached or unconcerned bystanders‚ that brandish Hip Hop as a dysphemism; an expression so substituted and contemptuous of themselves and to the greater

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    Hip Hop Influence

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    The Influence of Hip-Hop on Young adults Hip-hop is a new type of music that has been gradually increasing in popularity in the past three decades And like other music it can be very influential‚ and hip-hop has been anything but short on that. From sculpting the way modern day youth speak and introducing words that are used in everyday talk nowadays to how the youth may even dress or act. But are these influences on our youth positive or negative? There are critics that argue that people who listen

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    Hip Hop Satire

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    on the headlines are the bad and the ugly never the good. One picture that is often skewed by the media is that of hip hop. It is often heard that this genre is a negative influence on children‚ as the message put out by these rappers is not appropriate for today’s youth. The lifestyle is too violent and the lyrics are too harsh. All this is skewed in the wrong direction. As the hip hop genre is impactful and helpful for the youth of the world. The genre speaks to a variety of topics; from hard hitting

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