English 1301.06 November 14‚ 2014 How Women Are Portrayed In Hip Hop Videos For Years‚ video girls have been a major part of hip hop music and videos‚ but what is the cost? Are girls losing themselves in the glitz and glam of being a video girl? This video covers just that: what image women are giving out by being in these Hip Hop videos. These viewpoints come from a few different people who all have different roles in the Hip Hop world. The video also talks about the negative roles such as “walking
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see that most of the current genres of music were rooted in older genres such as jazz. This essay in particular will discuss hip hop which has roots stemming from jazz‚ blues‚ and also gospel music. In Understanding Black American Aspects in Hip Hop Cinema by Tani Sanchez‚ we see an excerpt where music scholar Craig Werner establishes a three step process in which hip hop music is associated with the gospel. These steps include “(1) acknowledging the burden; (2) bearing witness; (3) Finding redemption”
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How does Hip Hop Cause Violence? “They say I’m all about murder murder and kill kill‚ But what about Grindhouse and Kill Bill? What about Cheney and Halliburton? The back door deals on oil fields? How is Nas the most violent person?” – Nas The first chapter of Tricia’s Rose The Hip Hop Wars debates about the issues of violence in the urban America and its association with hip hop. Rose explain that there are five central elements that are the underlying factors of the destruction of minority communities
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Hip-Hop versus R&B Rhythm and blues was considered strictly black music. The black culture is a phenomenal subject representing the life style‚ imagination and accomplishments of people. One of the most outstanding and unique characteristic that makes this culture one of a kind is the music I has produced. Music has a common characteristic that is unique to all cultures throughout the world. Today‚ I want to focus on the comparing of two music styles Hip-Hop versus R&B and the
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Tupac Shakur: A Hip-Hop Inspiration Music is a cultural journal that expresses the realities and emotions of life in a poetic way. For the African American culture‚ music has always been a statement for many controversial topics such as racism‚ religion‚ politics‚ education‚ crime‚ and violence. In the 1990’s‚ Hip-Hop became the newest cultural and artistic voice for the African American population. Genres such as jazz‚ blues‚ rock-n-roll‚ and gospel that once dominated the musical culture
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that I think had a great effect on many sub-cultures all over the world‚ and was one of the first hip hop songs to have a really universal meaning is: “Where is the Love‚” by The Black-Eyed Peas. In this song‚ they question everyone’s ideologies regarding prejudice‚ and outlet their feelings towards racism‚ war‚ intolerance‚ greed‚ United States politics‚ terrorism‚ media‚ and love. Their hip hop sub-culture is seen in their clothing‚ and lyrics. However‚ they agreed to mainstream or sacrifice
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Essay The Influence of Hip Hop on Today’s Youth “After silence‚ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” This profound statement from English writer‚ Aldous Huxley‚ demonstrates the importance that music obtains in today’s society. Simply‚ music is a form of expression‚ not limited to any specific genre. Although this expression is not limited to one genre‚ there is one that seemingly obtains the title of most controversial. The Rap/Hip-Hop genre has been harshly
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Hip-Hop was brought into the U.S by a gathering of Jamaican settlers in the 70’s. One of the Jamaicans‚ Clive Campbell‚ A.K.A Kool Herc started‚ making instrumentals out of two turntables. While another man from the Bronx‚ Theodore Livingstone‚ A.K.A Grand Wizard‚ incidentally found the scratching sound of the turntable. Rap was made as a between social marvel of New York’s poorer segments (Harlem‚ Soho‚ Greenwich Village‚ Bronx‚ Queens‚ and Brooklyn). Rap turned into a developed type of Jamaican
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Rap and hip-hop first started to come together in the 1970 ’s‚ but didn ’t really materialize and become popular until the 1990 ’s. With a huge surge in popularity and growth in the 1990 ’s‚ it seemed that rap and hip-hop had started a cultural phenomenon that still has noticeable effects easily seen today in music and also in pop culture. A cultural phenomenon is an idea‚ trend‚ or movement that shapes and defines that time period. During the 1990 ’s‚ rap and hip-hop spread like wild fire across
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“Black Women VS Hip-Hop” Crystal Smith once wrote that “Images of black women in hip-hop culture make it more likely for them to be viewed as targets to be defaced and abused.” This statement is confirmed true there are many African American women in the hip-hop culture that are disrespected or abused in some type of way during the making of a video or even the lyrics of a song. There are many ways African American women of the hip-hop culture are being abused and disrespected. Some video women
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