Ridge‚ Ellie. ""Fight the Power": Two Rappers’ Insight into Politics | The Daily Californian." The Daily Californian. N.p.‚ 26 Feb. 2016. Web. 22 Apr. 2016. Ridge’s article focuses on the importance of rap music and the strong political influence that is possesses. In general‚ music has an incredible power to engrain thoughts and speak ideas freely to a widespread audience. When young African Americans of the 1970s were born into staggering poverty‚ they expressed their anger and dissatisfaction
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The art of sampling‚ Crime or creativity‚ up until 1991 Grand Upright Music‚ Ltd v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.‚ 780 F. Supp. 182 (S.D.N.Y. 1991) US Rapper Biz Markie taken to court for the complicity of “sampling” Gilbert O’Sullivan’s music without prior consent which perpetually changed the face of sampled music culture forever. Contrast to that there had been a carte blanche‚ a musical freedom and expression of art within music that gave artists opportunity to come up with ground breaking innovative
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Naturally‚ there’s only one way Australian pop-punk band 5 Seconds of Summer could follow up the release of their latest single "She’s Kinda Hot" and that is with a music video. Luke‚ Calum‚ Michael‚ and Ashton just dropped the official video for their new angsty track‚ and I was pleasantly surprised by its content. The only word to describe 5 Seconds of Summer’s "She’s Kinda Hot" music video is kooky. The video begins with a series of scenes involving kids who would typically be considered "outcasts:"
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Music has been an art form used for communicating artist’s feelings and expressions through words and rhythm for centuries. Music allows artists to express thoughts and feelings using dialect while accompanying the words with a rhythm and beat. Although music is enticing to the audience‚ music listeners rarely completely comprehend the words and focus mainly on the chorus and dance along with the beat. This is why a blog post is a more effective way of communicating an idea than a song. A blog post
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RuPaul Charles RuPaul Andre Charles rose to become one of the most famous American actor‚ author‚ recording artist‚ and model in the 1990s‚ and was best known as mononymously as RuPaul. As a person who appeared regularly in different variety of television programs‚ musical albums‚ and films‚ being famous could just be described as the reward for hardworking. Born in San Diego‚ California on November 17‚ 1960‚ RuPaul was named by his mother‚ who was a native of Louisiana. The prefix “Ru” was adopted
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Over the past few years‚ Omaha native Nate Maloley (a.k.a. Skate) has become a force to be reckoned with. With a huge following on social media‚ Skate is one of the most prominent up-and-coming rappers/hip-hop artists in the music industry. Recently‚ at the 2015 Teen Choice Awards‚ he received a nomination for "Choice Music: Next Big Thing‚" and earlier this week‚ he released his first full-length album titled Maloski. Without a doubt‚ I have to admit that I am quite impressed. While I sometimes
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If you watched season one of HBO’s True Detective last year‚ then you are probably also curious about what season two will bring. One thing the new season will feature is a brand new theme song‚ written and performed by Leonard Cohen. The sparse‚ gravelly crooning of Cohen’s voice will color the television series’ opening credits a haunting shade of grizzly. The choice has been praised as apt and “badass” by Vulture Magazine. The song is called “Nevermind‚” and it first appeared on Cohen’s most
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Hip Hop: The Movement and the Social Challenge Hip hop is a musical culture that has undergone rapid development and transformation since its origins during the 1970s in New York City. (I would consider rewording first sentence. The last part of the sentence should maybe be shortened and put at the beginning) What started off first as a relatively underground culture‚ has rapidly led to a major entertainment industry that has become largely commercialized within mainstream popular culture. (A little
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The language in our popular music has the ability to shape one’s reality. For instance rap artists in their first couple albums that are released their lyrics tell the story of their lives and how hard it was for them before the fame and glory they live today. I think some people can thrive on that and in turn will motivate them to do something for the greater good because they can relate to the experiences and the hard times rap artists have gone through. A good example of this is Tupac Shakur in
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WIZKID “DEFYING GRAVITY” He is like a virus and his influence has an unconscious effect believe me I didn’t know when I started humming his controversial hit song “holla at your boy” unconsciously. He is a big force to be reckoned with and he could be tagged the heavyweight champion of the new hip-hop generation. He’s a young talent with vocals out of this world. He made his way into the limelight with his hook on M.I’s Fast Money Fast Cars off his(M.I’s) Talk about it album. Ever since he has
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