society. Hip Hop is a genre of music that has significantly grown the last couple of decades. It’s increased popularity has brought it to the forefront of globalization. Technological advances has made it easy for Hip Hop to spread out globally. This occurrence of globalization is a key example that as our cultural borders are broken down by technology‚ our own cultural and social practices become fluid. Although there are many positive and negative comments about the globalization of Hip Hop‚ it is
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Back then‚ when I hear “Hip Hop”‚ I associated it with egoistic rappers and gang violence. It was my least favorite music genre because rap artists only rap about their shopping list and other meaningless topics. It came to the point where I asked‚ “What is Hip Hop?” I was so curious that I decided to use it as an English research topic. From that point on‚ my opinion on Hip Hop changed completely due to the fact that there’s more to it. As I researched on what Hip Hop is‚ I found out that it isn’t
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Hip hop music‚ also called hip-hop‚[1][2] rap music‚[2][3][4] or hip-hop music‚[2][5] is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping‚ a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted.[2] It developed as part of hip hop culture‚ a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping‚ DJing/scratching‚ break dancing‚ and graffiti writing.[6][7][8] Other elements include sampling (or synthesis)‚ and beatboxing. While often used to refer to rapping
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Hip-hop is the latest expressive manifestation of the past and current experience as well as the collective consciousness of African-American and Latino-American youth. But more than any music of the past‚ it also expresses mainstream American ideas that have now been internalized and embedded into the psyches of American people of color over time. A part of the learned mainstream American culture is sexism and misogyny. Hip-hop culture is frequently condemned for its misogynistic exploitation
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on a situation that many people consider not being relevant. “Celie’s Revenge: Hip Hop’s Betrayal of Black Women” written by Jennifer McLune relates to the feelings of many women in today’s society. Being referred to as bitches and hoes in the music that we hear every day‚ on the radio‚ TV‚ etc.‚ is a disgrace to all whether they feel so or not. This article is a response to Kevin Powell’s article “Notes of a Hip Hop Head”. In his article‚ Kevin states “just as it was unfair to demonize men of color
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to express their emotions and tell stories. There are so many types of music like rap‚ pop‚ classical‚ country‚ rock‚ hip-hop‚ etc. But among all of them‚ Hip hop music has been emerged as the most popular music among youngsters. But today‚ hip hop music is a topic of controversies and disagreements. Social media is playing an important
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In the essay ”Hip-Hop wars”‚ Tricia Rose focuses on the debate in hip-hop about sexism and discrimination. Sexism in hip-hop can be divided into two groups. People in the first group use hip-hop’s sexism as a way to strengthen the image that black people are strange and subordinate‚ and facilitate anti-feminist situations. People in the other group are liberals who like hip-hop‚ they concern about sexism because hip-hop heavily relies on it. The images that degradation of black women is strongly
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In James McBride article “Hip Hop Planet”‚ he introduces the reader to many issues that are affecting society‚ including violence‚ social class‚ and racism. McBride ensures that he includes hip-hop’s history‚ in order to explain that the musical genre began as an attempt to avoid or prevent teen gang involvement. Additionally‚ social class is present in hip hop culture because many of the artist’s success determined by the resources that they have when beginning their career as a DJ. Lastly‚ race
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“Hip Hop has always been bragging’ and boasting and i’m better at this than you and i’m better at that than you”(Eminem). Hip Hop will forever be a competitive activity. Hip Hop is the streets. Hip Hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days… that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your likelihood and its not compromised. Its blunt. Its raw‚ straight off the street from the beat to the voice to the words. Although hip hop may seem to encourage adolescents
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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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