Hip hop is more than just music‚ it’s considered a culture. A culture filled with many elements and talent. The culture of hip hop has a beginning‚ middle‚ and a long future ahead. Many people have views on what hip hop is and what it is supposed to be‚ much of it is negative and dim. What people with negative views don’t know is hip hop has helped many people throughout the years it has been around. The innovations of hip hop have affected many things other than music throughout the years and it
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Many people believe that rap is not a music genre and is merely a sub-genre of hip-hop. There is also the belief rapper KRS-ONE said‚ “rapping is something you do and hip-hop is something you live” (KRS-ONE). The differences between rap and hip-hop are distinguishable enough that the two have separated. Leading people to believe that rap has evolved into its own category. Unless rap or hip-hop music is one of your favorite genres of music‚ you probably just lump the two together. Although in many
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played a crucial role in Hip Hop culture: from the beginning with Cindy Campbell the sister of Kool Herc — who demonstrated her entrepreneurship of promoting his block parties; the idea of entrepreneurship is still deeply seeded in Hip Hop today—to Debra Lee‚ the president and CEO of BET. However‚ accounts of hip hop often downplay‚ or completely leave out‚ the contributions of women to hip hop as artist‚ entrepreneurs‚ producers‚ writers‚ etc. Women have influenced hip hop as much‚ if not more‚
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Michael Hinden English 101 Honors Hip-Hop: Dead or Alive Since the invention of the internet and P2P (peer 2 peer) downloading all genres of music have become victims of free music downloads and suffered in record sales. However‚ why has hip-hop music seemingly taken an extra hit? According to Billboard Magazine‚ “since 2000‚ rap sales dropped 44%‚and declined to 10% of all music sales‚ which‚ while still a commanding figure when compared to other genres‚ is a significant drop from the 13% of
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Introduction Hip hop has been around since the early 70s. Some may say it was originated in New York and others may disagree (History of Hip Hop style‚ 2012). However‚ we can all come to one conclusion that hip hop is influential. Hip hop ’s largest fan base is the teenager population. It has changed over time from Run-DMC to now Lil Wayne and Drake. Hip hop will always be hip hop but it has changed overtime. It is different because of the message it sends . Teenagers are heavily influenced
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Hip-hop has been emerged in the early 1970s and took over the world since. There are so many reasons why hip-hop is so popular‚ not only in the states‚ but all around the world. One of the reasons is that hip hop is used as a representative of people’s thoughts‚ minds‚ and voices. People express their hidden feelings‚ and silently and peacefully protest through songs. It is considered to be a non-violent way of fighting. What makes hip-hop special is that “hip hop isn’t just music-it’s also attitude
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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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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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certain way is because of the music they listen to these days. The music that these urban kids are listening to is primarily Hip Hop which is if you don’t know is a genre of music that is characterized by a performer speaking rhythmically‚ or rapping‚ over a backing track that often but not always consists of loops or samples of other music woven together (www.globalpost.com). Hip Hop gets a very bad reputation because of the explicit lyrics that talk about gang violence‚ sex‚ drug and alcohol use‚ and
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December 2016 Hip Hop vs Rap When I think of Hip Hop‚ I think of mainly guys beatboxing. Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines using your mouth and voice. Hip Hop artists such as Doug E. Fresh and Vanilla Ice used the beatboxing style of rhyming in a lot of music in the mid 80’s and early 90’s. Another thing that comes to mind is men walking around with boom boxes up close to their face rhyming to the music melodies being played. Hip Hop is described
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