Hip-Hop Pioneers The pioneers of hip-hop started to surface around the mid 70’s. The different components to Hip-Hop were Dance‚ DJs‚ and MC’s. Some say it originated in the Bronx‚ NY‚ with DJ’s like GrandMaster Flash who invented different techniques on the mix board. He later joined up with a group of rappers call Furious Five and created hits like "The Roof is on Fire." Another Influential Hip-Hop Artist includes Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels‚ also known as Run and D.M.C. The combination
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Definition Rough Draft Essay Hip Hop Benefitting or Blacklisting Black Culture? Hip Hop as a musical genre has gone through much change not only in the content of the music‚ but the message conveyed and how many would say it has in some ways defined black culture in the last 20 years. A significant amount of hip hop music nowadays is geared towards painting this unrealistic image of hyper-materialism‚ sexism‚ and violence that ultimately assists in dragging black culture down‚ and the people
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Place Hip hop is a form of art that has been popular for the past twenty years. Although people in recent years often mistake rap music as vulgar and ill-mannered‚ the hip hop community continues to provide a great way to channel emotion and soul into their music. In his article‚ “The State of Rap: Time and Place” Jeffrey Louis Decker illustrates the black nationalism within the hip hop community by exploring how Black Nationalism can be accounted for within the hip hop music. Before hip hop was
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Race in Hip Hop It is a common belief that hip hop has served as the medium for healing racial tension in the 21st century. Although the hip hop industry has seen a subtle wave of successful white American rappers over the past couple of decades‚ this is not enough to suggest a racial merge in the predominately black American world of hip hop. White Americans are not typically welcomed into the hip hop community. The few white American rappers that have made it big in the hip hop industry
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Hip-hop music has been a part of my musical repertoire from early adolescence‚ and more recently‚ an art form I have been interested in exploring from a more critical and academic perspective. I’ve wanted to extend my knowledge beyond hip-hop as a pastime and into hip-hop as a social tool with the power to create‚ reproduce‚ and challenge dominant social life. This consideration facilitated my research question: “How is homosexuality represented in hip-hop music and communities?” Due to hip-hop’s
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Hip-Hop Goes Global It has been a quarter of a century since hip-hop first made its mark on the American music scene. Hip-hop has become a popular trend that is echoing around the world. By definition‚ hip-hop refers to a culture that embraces a particular music‚ language‚ attitude‚ and dress fashioned after disadvantaged urban youth. Born out of the ghettos of the South Bronx‚ New York‚ and created by black and Latino youth in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s‚ this music genre closely identified
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The Positives and Negatives of Hip-Hop In Geoffrey Bennett’s essay titled‚ “Hip-Hop: A Roadblock or Pathway to Black Empowerment‚” he speaks about the positive and negative effects that hip-hop has on the Black Community. Bennett goes all the way to the beginning of hip-hop‚ which he says took place in the early 1980s with rappers such as Run DMC‚ Public Enemy‚ Sugar Hill Gang and many others. The author then speaks about how hip-hop grew not only in the young black African American culture but
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Introduction: Hip Hop in History: Past‚ Present‚ and Future Author(s): Derrick P. Alridge and James B. Stewart Source: The Journal of African American History‚ Vol. 90‚ No. 3‚ The History of Hip Hop (Summer‚ 2005)‚ pp. 190-195 Published by: Association for the Study of African-American Life and History‚ Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20063997 Accessed: 27/10/2009 14:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at
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With the help of technology hip-hop has become a global movement. This newfound globalization has connected different people by one love of the hip-hop culture. Some ways in which people connect through hip-hop include international organizations and competitions. A prime example is Hip Hop International (HHI)‚ the creators of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew. HHI puts on a world competition each year for dance crews to compete for a world title in Las Vegas. While it is a competition‚ it is also
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Surname 5 Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Gang. Skeleton draft. The hip hop subculture is a way of life tethered to and popularized by the widespread practice of rap music. It originates from the African American community. It is expressed through flashy modes of dressing‚ graffiti art forms‚ break dancing‚ and slang. However‚ with the passage of time‚ the culture has traversed racial and cultural lines and has become one of the most practiced genres of music throughout the world‚ with an
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