Title: Hip Hop High School Theresa Anderson a.k.a. Tee-Ay‚ the main character‚ gets a taste of the hip hop culture as she enters her new high school. The school is full of beat boxers‚ rappers‚ and break dancers. The students have their own lingo‚ and everyone in the school has some kind of nickname. Students aren’t as interested in making good grades‚ as they are in partying‚ drinking‚ smoking‚ and gang banging. Tone The tone of the story varies a lot. It goes from funny‚ to sad‚ to intense
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Burns-Ardolino Research Methods April 22‚ 2007 Positive Women in Hip Hop: Feminism in a Patriarchal Society I. Summary Despite the negative images that we are over exposed to‚ can society identify positive women in hip hop? As hip hop promises to become main stream‚ it is gradually morphing into a component that will eventually be accepted as popular culture. However‚ the degradation of women continues to be a staple of the hip hop culture. In rap music women are commonly referred to as “bitches
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These last two years of college have been the most influential in my life in terms of being racially aware and contemplating/ attempting to understand social issues regarding racism and white supremacy. I’m currently enrolled in a class called Global Hip Hop and Social Justice that has challenged my understanding of race and racism extensively. I always said that I wasn’t racist‚ because I have no prejudice against people of different ethnicities and believe a persons worth has nothing to do with skin
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The article “Hood Politics”: Racial Transformation in Hip-Hop by Richard Spradlin it argues that hip hop music is a vehicle for gaining an understanding black individuals identities. However‚ it also claims that rap can deconstruct and rebuild the black identity‚ in regards to one’s self-perception or judgment of society “in a racialized
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One of the main genres in music is Hip-Hop/R&B‚ because it is pop culture and a huge part of the youth community today. This genre has a good beat to it and it is easy to listen to and the lyrics relate to the lives of its listeners. Artists in the Hip-Hop/R&B genre portray sex in many different styles. Some artists use a romantic style while others use a humorous style that is very vivid. Artists choose to write about sex in their lyrics because it is controversial and it draws the attention of
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Fox hip hop opera ‘Empire has a star studded cast Taraji P. Henson plays (Cookie Lyons) Terrance Howard (Lucious Lyons) and Gabourey Sidibe (Becky). The show real life scenarios‚ and imperfect Hollywood storyline. Viewers watching can imagine parts of their lives panning out to resemble “Empire” storyline. Last season “Empire” storyline focused on Cookie and Luscious Lyons relationship‚ and the struggles that occurred before there was wealth. As Cookie served time in prison Luscious Lyons started
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What is hip-hop? Many believe hip-hop is synonymous for rap music‚ but it goes beyond that. Hip-hop is a form of art and culture‚ style‚ and language‚ and for many‚ a way of life (Fernando‚ 1994). The graffiti you see on bridges‚ the dances you see in the clubs‚ the hardened attitude that the boy who sits behind you in film class has‚ the slang you here kids yell at the park‚ this is hip-hop. In the 1980s the subculture at that time was deejaying‚ emceeing‚ graffiti‚ and break dancing. All played
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Mass Comm. Research November 11‚ 2013 Mini-Research Assignment 4 For my content analysis and quantitative research I will analyze the popular television show Love and Hip Hop: New York. I chose this show because I feel that it encompasses all things contribute to the representation of women in the media. This show is reality TV docu-drama that follows the lives of five celebrity women on their journey through life‚ love and their respective careers. Along with the women there are a few men that
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“Going back to Cali‚ Cali‚ Cali; I’m going back to Cali. hmm‚ I don’t think so” are lyrics to a well-known Hip Hop song track that was originally written by LL Cool J in 1987 and then remixed in the late 90s by Notorious B.I.G (TrevzNewPop‚ 2016). According to New Pop archives‚ the remix actually became more infamous than the original song as many fans believe that certain stanzas in this caustic version may have been a prelude to a haughty yet violent end for this artist. With all things being
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Vertovec May 15‚ 2010 Cultural Analysis Essay Influences of Hip Hop on Today’s Generation: Rising Deviance Hip-hop is a popular form of music in today’s mainstream culture. In its first realm it appeared in forms of jazz as a verse style capturing the absence of melody‚ but has since evolved into a form of capitalizing egoism through criminal references. Therefore‚ deviance within youth in society is rising thanks to hip-hop music and the trends it provokes. Throughout Rap’s history
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