ATTICA STATE PRISON UPRISING SEPTEMBER 13‚ 1971 George Jackson the most famous political prisoner in the 70’s and leader of the Black Panther Party was incarcerated at San Quentin Prison in California. He was killed by the State on August 21‚ 1971. Because of this Attica inmates organized a hunger strike and wore black arm bands. George Jackson’s revolutionary writings in his book he had written “Soledad Brother” was passed from inmate to inmate inside Attica
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RAP MUSIC IS A BAD INFLUENCE ON YOU PEOPLE. History Hip hop began in the 1970s. The art form‚ which originated in New York‚ provided Black and Latino youth with an outlet to express themselves‚ often speaking out about the poor conditions that exist within their communities. The development of the hip-hop culture created a movement that influenced the way we dress‚ speak and socialize. The emergence of "gangsta rap" in the 1980s marked the beginning of some disintegration of the positive images
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Folk music and rap music sound very different from one another. It would be difficult to compare the music of folk-legend Pete Seeger to the music of The Notorious B.I.G. from just listening to them. Despite this‚ folk music and rap music are very similar. This is because both genres aim to make the public aware of the many problems going on at the respective times. The social contexts and political messages are similar between folk music and rap music as both genres create social awareness through
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“Growing up” is a pop/rap song sang by artist Benjamin Hammond Haggerty‚ known as “Macklemore” as his stage name and written by his coworker Ryan Lewis‚ featuring Ed sheeran who sings the chorus (hook) released in 2016. This song was included in their fourth album “This Unruly Mess I’ve Made”. In “Growing Up”‚ Macklemore gives a more personal view of his life to his audience‚ which he doesn’t do very often. In this song‚ Macklemore gives his daughter advice about growing up while Haggerty figures
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2013 GP Paper 1st Draft Ever wondered why young people find trouble so often? Or why every other sentence that comes out of their mouth’s contain a form of profane language? It’s because of the negative effects of the “hardcore” or “gangsta” rap music that they bang through their ears at some point in time everyday. From Tupac Shakur’s “Makaveli” album to Chief Keef’s “Finally Rich” album‚ the teenaged/ young adult mind is filled with drug use‚ violence‚ physical and verbal abuse‚ and in some
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Q-Methodological Study of Attitudes towards Rap Music Abstract The aim of this research is to investigate attitudes towards rap music using Q-Methodology. Previous research shows varied findings‚ some suggesting that rap music can cause deviant behaviour and some suggesting that rap music can be beneficial. The method to investigate attitudes in this research involved asking participants to mark their level of agreement on different statements about rap music on a scale from -4 to 4. The data was
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Rap music is a music genre that has been around since the late 1970s and early 1980s in New York City and was pioneered by a Jamaican immigrant by the name of DJ Kool Herc‚ who started transporting simple rap songs at his parties‚ which was also by the Jamaican tradition of toasting. Rap has been popular since the 1990s as artists like Biggie Smalls‚ Tupac‚ and N.W.A were all popular artists in rap in the 1990s and P. Diddy and Dr. Dre were well known producers at the time and they still are as of
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Influence of Hip Hop & Rap Hip hop and rap as a musical genre is a very controversial subject for nearly everyone. Its influences are powerful‚ both positive and negative. There are many positive influences of hip hop‚ and a few examples are the breaking down of cultural barriers‚ the economic impact‚ and political awareness of pressing and urgent issues. Though there are many positive influences‚ there are many negative influences as well. Some of the more heated debates of the negative influences
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Rap vs. R&B The definition of music is defined differently between each individual. Some people define music as the blend of silence and sound. The definition musicians have for music usually depends on what style or genre of music they make. Some people feel that for rap songs‚ only the beat for the song counts as music while the lyrics are only spoken poetry. Listeners to R&B feel that both the vocals and the instrumental noise are music. Artists of these genres often collaborate with other artists
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to one central idea. J cole has changed the way I think about world . When I was young kid‚ about four or five years old I was exposed to rap music. My family would listen to old rap music and the current rap music at that time‚ which would be 50 cent and Nelly. Ever since I have been listening to rap music. Since I was young‚ I didn’t notice the messages that rap music sent and I didn’t know any of the words. We didn’t listen to any poetic rappers like Nas or Common at that time. A few years later
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