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    Hip Hop vs. Rock

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    are many different music genres. Rock and hip hop are two of the most popular music genres. These two music genres are both alike‚ but also have differences. Rock and hip hop have many similarities. One of the main similarities is the types of instruments they both use. Both rock and hip hop use a drum pattern or a beat that loops throughout the entire song. Both genres use a lead instrumental‚ Rock music usually consists of a guitar and a bass. Hip Hop uses many types of lead instruments but also

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    Hip Hop American Culture

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    When the public thinks about hip-hop‚ people more than likely come up with the rhyming‚ beats with profound base‚ and the scratching of a record into their mind. However‚ Hip-hop has become a part of American culture with its music‚ and lifestyle. The style of music has transformed from the rap music that we see these days. The ground-breaking establishment of artists helped institute the hip-hop movement in many types of music‚ and its performance. It has also branched into in many different styles

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    Hip Hop Song Steps

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    Many believe that hip hop is the birth of jazz. Professor Sanchez states that hip hop closely relates to jazz by following a three-step process of experience oriented poetry‚ “(1) Acknowledging the burden; (2) bearing witness; (3) Finding redemption” (Sanchez 5). A notorious hip-hop song from the 1980’s which incorporates the three-step process associated with jazz is “The Message” by Grandmaster Flash. The song “The Message” speaks of the burdens of living in a crime ridden urban America‚ the numerous

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    Why Is Hip Hop Popular?

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    Hip-hop has been emerged in the early 1970s and took over the world since. There are so many reasons why hip-hop is so popular‚ not only in the states‚ but all around the world. One of the reasons is that hip hop is used as a representative of people’s thoughts‚ minds‚ and voices. People express their hidden feelings‚ and silently and peacefully protest through songs. It is considered to be a non-violent way of fighting. What makes hip-hop special is that “hip hop isn’t just music-it’s also attitude

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    Hip Hop Wars Analysis

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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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    Effects of Hip-Hop | Malachi Norman English 101April 8‚ 2013Professor Stayton MWF 9:00 am | From the beats to the lyrics‚ the current generation of youth is engrossed in hip-hop culture‚ tending to idolize the artist behind the songs. Since the 1970s‚ hip-hop has influenced American culture tremendously. In the past‚ hip-hop held a central focus around inequality‚ empowerment and overcoming hardships. Today‚ hip-hop talks more about sex‚ money‚ a male dominant social standing‚ and drugs. Hip-hop‚

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    Hip Hop Vs. Rap

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    December 2016 Hip Hop vs Rap When I think of Hip Hop‚ I think of mainly guys beatboxing. Beatboxing is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines using your mouth and voice. Hip Hop artists such as Doug E. Fresh and Vanilla Ice used the beatboxing style of rhyming in a lot of music in the mid 80’s and early 90’s. Another thing that comes to mind is men walking around with boom boxes up close to their face rhyming to the music melodies being played. Hip Hop is described

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    Tasia Walker Masculinity in Rap and Hip Hop Today in Hip Hop every rapper has to portray themselves as being hard‚ having a lot of girls in their circle and having money. Since the beginning of the American society being considered a real man was to be able to protect their families. When television came around western films portrayed men as either strong or weak and defined their masculinity as being the stronger man because of their guns. For

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    Social Justice In Hip Hop

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    Like so many things that have achieved massive success in the United States and around the world‚ hip hop has had to endure its fair share of obstacles. Hip hop is an art form that is inherently postmodern‚ progressive‚ and urban‚ and one that includes modes like street graffiti‚ breakdancing‚ and rapping – all which have had some degree of difficulty finding respect in a country trying desperately to hold onto the past. When Jazz came to the American scene in the early twentieth century‚ it too

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    Global Hip Hop Culture

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    First of all‚ Yvonne Bynoe in her article‚ “Getting Real about Global Hip Hop‚” describes global hip hop as something that should not be looked at as related to the hip hop from America (Bynoe‚ 78). Bynoe describes global hip hop in this manner because she firmly believes that hip hop is not really hip hop if it does not relate back to the culture from which it came (Bynoe‚ 78). According to Bynoe‚ “Hip Hop culture is indeed based on improvisation and adaptation‚ but…are based in turn on a Black

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