What is Hip-Hop‚ and how has it become the biggest development in popular music ever in such a short period of time? Since its infancy‚ Hip-Hop has had a pervasive influence on every culture its touched‚ including fashion‚ dance‚ and especially social media‚ where music videos regularly receive hundreds of millions of views. But the unprecedented speed of Hip-Hop’s spread has left many scratching their heads on what all the fuss is about. In this paper‚ I will give a complete overview of Hip-Hop from
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Hip Hop is a musical and cultural genre that has become prominent over the last three decades. It was a way of allowing individuals to express themselves through music‚ dance‚ and dress to assist in finding their own identity. Hip Hop has more recently gathered a negative image on how women are portrayed in the industry. Hip Hop music videos in particular are said to objectify women‚ specifically black women in a hypersexual manner. This portrayal of the black women has arguably had an effect on
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7‚ 2007 Hip-Hop’s Effect on African-American Feminists Annotated Bibliography Davis‚ Eisa. “Sexism and the Art of Feminists Hip-Hop Maintenance.” To be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism. New York: Anchor Books‚ 1995. 131-139. Davis points out that not all feminists are taking the concept of sexism so casually and also _ believes that rap lyrics are not the only cause for the degradation of black women. Black _ _ men have given black women a place where
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Hip- Hop can give a postive vibes and give you a central message to go on throughout your day. At most times it can stop people from committing harmful crimes. For example Hip-Hop was born in the 1970’s with scratching disco and old vinyl records and boys and girls bustin’ down rhymes that talks about dreams and life purposes. Later presented to block parties by DJ Kool Herc aka (Clive Campbell) and Grandmaster Flash aka (Joseph Saddler) who all they wanted to do is mind their own and just have fun
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a best hip hop lays bare the empty moral cupboard that is our generation’s legacy and because in this paragraph it has given some message that the drums are pounding out a warning they are telling us something .our children can hear it. Question #13: Hip-hop reflects the truth‚ and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information‚ but it’s also an escape.”- Busta Rhymes (Hip Hop Quotes) Hip hop does
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| The Rhetorical Analysis of “He’s Not Black” by Marie Arana | Likita M.Taylor | ITT Tech | ENG: 1320: Composition I | 10/30/2012 | | Rhetorical Analysis of “He’s Not Black” by Marie Arana I selected “He’s Not Black” by Marie Arana. Arana discusses a topic that affects all of us today; especially “minorities” in America; how do we define ourselves racially. Like most of us‚ the author has many different heritages in her ancestry. I like how she described
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“Woman in Hip-Hop” Although hip-hop generally contains male emcees‚ there has been a plethora of female emcees in the earlier hip-hop days that have made a positive impact on the hip-hop community and the culture itself. Hip-Hop started in 1970 by DJ Kool Herc‚ but it wasn’t until 1979 that the first female emcee emerged. Her name was Wendy Clark A.K.A “Lady B”. She began spinning hip-hop records on WHAT 1340 AM in Philadelphia. She expanded hip-hop outside of New York to Philadelphia.
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Hip-hop can destroy other citizens. For instance‚ violence in some songs cause the youth to starts fights and also kill themselves. On the other hand‚ gangs and street thugs are a few examples. However‚ teenagers are starting to kills‚ steals‚ vandalize. Therefore‚ hip-hop culture and movement has an negative impact on contemporary African American identities based on how they represent themselves. This is due to the fact it promotes an unhealthy lifestyle towards attitudes and behaviors of American
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Black and Pink is a pro LGBT organization whose primary objective is to end the prison industrial complex. In sum‚ this group directs its focus to the damaging effects of mass incarceration on LGBTQ persons‚ presenting a “radical‚…anti capital[ist]‚…feminist‚…[and] anti racist” approach to queer liberation. Black and Pink was founded by Rev. Jason Lydon‚ and began in 2005 as a personal pen pal project in Boston‚ Massachusetts after he experienced the distinctive sexual abuse of an LGBT segregated
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RESILANCEY IN BLACK WOMAN The act of resistance and defiance is one of the most used human reactions that we as Americans often use this to express ourselves in society today. These reactions are also used when some one fee3ls that they are being treated unfairly or in an unjust manner. America is supposed to be a land of equal value and opportunity when it comes to being human. Obviously this is not the way that things are in society today but things were a lot worse off not so long ago. From
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