The Truth of Music Many individuals are confused about the message that hip hop and rap send to their audiences. Some say rap and hip hop are a bad influence on society. Others believe rap and hip hop are a representation of themselves and their lives on a personal level. Felipe Andres Coronel‚ also known as Immortal Technique‚ is a Peruvian born American rapper as well as an urban activist. His music is hardcore‚ violent‚ graphic‚ and also very credible. One of his more political songs explain
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A game-changing artist and an impervious celebrity‚ Lil Wayne began as his career as a near-novelty — a preteen delivering hardcore hip-hop — but through years of maturation and reinventing the mixtape game‚ he developed into a million-selling rapper with a massive body of work‚ one so inventive and cunning that it makes his famous claim of being the “best rapper alive” worth considering. Born Dwayne Michael Carter‚ Jr. and raised in the infamous New Orleans neighborhood of Hollygrove‚ he was a straight-A
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society. There are many music genres‚ let’s talk about rap. Rap music is defined as "a form of rhythmic speaking in rhyme‚ usually from its culture. Rap is a combination of rhyming and poetry to a musical beat. Rap is a kind of music in the hip-hop culture. Hip-hop and rap differ in three main features; musical attributes‚ culture and community message. Rap is a mix of poetry or poetic lyric‚ beats and their rhyming. The subject of rap can vary from relationships to mainstream media. Rappers like to
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I chose to read Joan Morgan’s From Fly-Girls to Bitches and Hoes for my next reading journal article. She begins with background information of current hip hop and rap lyrics‚ and the language they choose to use. Much of the diction used in their songs are insensitive towards women of all kinds. However‚ Morgan points out that the rappers are not to be entirely blamed. For centuries‚ women have used their sexuality as an advantage in order to progress through social and work situations. “Sex has
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Straight Outta Compton or Death Certificate . . . it does come off as the kind of powerful mid-career album those acts should’ve been able to make as hip-hop’s elder spokesmen".[7] Christopher Weingarten of Spin gave the album 9 out of 10 and wrote "A child of the ’80s and a student of the Internet‚ Killer Mike is as exciting and wildly unclassifiable as hip-hop gets: New York noise and country shit‚ nods to when rap was punk and crunk was pop‚ Ice Cube before he needed hooks‚ David Banner before he needed
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Hip-Hop music has always been equated with fashion in our society and Kanye West has platforms for artists before and following him to be more creative with their work in both sectors. Being a rapper and producer was not a common occurrence in the hip-hop industry and Kanye was initially refused at the doors of labels because nobody at the time believed that could work. Labels were further uncompliant when West presented songs with religious references‚ such as "Jesus Walks" because such lyrics were
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end social and/or political injustice for said oppressed. Because of the injustices of the past (inflicted upon POC by non-POC) along with the current injustices and oppression that POC have to deal with every day‚ people need to look deeper into hip hop than just another music genre that everyone has access
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The world of hip hop would have you believe that rap is a very poetic way of expressing yourself through music. This can of course be true‚ but does what you hear from rap music sound very poetic to you? The influence that rap currently has on our children all around the world is unfortunately a very strong one. If you have not noticed many of the major leaders in the rap community try to get involved with good causes and political campaigns in order to make it appear that rap is a good thing. But
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believe that we would all agree that Kanye West is one of the most talked about artists in modern pop culture. However‚ throughout his many outbursts‚ media mishaps and questionable views of his image the media cannot deny his contributions to the Hip-Hop and music cultures. Kanye West successfully brought self-conscious‚ thought-provoking music to a genre that had pride in glorifying‚ violence‚ drug use‚ sex and negativity among African Americans. He was a successful contender to Gangster Rap when
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Sean “P. Diddy” Combs NAME DATE CLASS PROFESSOR’S NAME [pic] Sean “P Diddy” Combs Sean Combs also known as Puff Daddy is one of the most influential music composers/ producers in hip hop today. He has overcome poverty after growing up on the hard streets of Harlem New York to become one of the biggest names of today’s celebrities. Of course he didn’t attain this goal without a lot of hard work in producing number 1 hits with artists such as Mary J. Blige and the Notorious BIG
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