“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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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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Hip Hop is a subcultural movement that was formed during the early 1970s by African-American‚ Caribbean‚ and Latino youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It became popular outside of the African-American community in the late 1980s and by the 2000s became the most listened-to musical genre in the world. The movement was created so that kids can come out‚ have fun‚ and bring out all their different cultures and turn them into music. The Bronx had a lot of mixed immigrants from all over
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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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Hip hop can be seen as a cultural movement emerging from the south Bronx‚ Hip hop was Hip-Hop fundamental as both a creative outlet for expressing the struggles of life amidst prevailing crime and violence as well as an enjoyable form of recreation. The music was used as a means to spread the word about oppression and struggles of the black community‚ because of its popularity hip hop music continued its spread through the 2000s‚ it was also increasingly seen in mainstream pop. In this essay I will
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The Language of Hip Hop Term paper for the PS "The English Language in America" SS 2006 handed in by Sebastian Ludyga Magdeburg‚ 25.09.2006 Table of contents 1. Introduction to hip hop 1 2. Hip Hop Nation Language 2 2.1 Features of the HHNL 3 2.2 The relationship of HHNL and AAL 5 3. Practical application 6 4. Conclusion
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Cited: Jazz Dance 7/28/2013 http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112398/jazz.htm Ballet dance 2013. Encyclopedia.com. 8 Jul. 2013 -ballet." The Columbia Encyclopedia‚ 6th Ed... Hip hop 6/28/2013‚ http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/hip-hop5.htm Tap cited from: 6/28/2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tap_dance
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1970’s among the African American and Latino communities‚ Hip-hop was born in South Bronx‚ New York City. Hip hop is a music genre that has a consistent backing beat‚ while the beat is playing the lyricist rhythmically speaks over the beat‚ which has become known as rapping. Throughout the 80s and 90s hip-hop gained popularity with major artists such as 2pac‚ Biggie Smalls‚ Dr Dre‚ and The Sugar Hill Gang. In the early days of hip hop‚ rappers primarily speak of their struggles in life. Several
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Hip Hop and Culture Socialization have always been a big influence on Black males. It has claimed to “describe the rage and anger that exists in the ghetto.” (Oliver‚ 2006‚ p. 925) It also have observed “the extreme means that a distinct segment of the Black male population are willing to use transcend poverty and hopelessness.” (Oliver‚ 2006‚ p. 925) However‚ Hip Hop and Rap music allow Black youths to “reflect the challenges‚ concerns‚ and aspirations whose lives were not centered on the street
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imagination‚ skill and expressive views. Rap and Hip-Hop were born out of the frustration that African Americans experienced during the Ronald Reagan presidency. Reagan’s policy of Reaganomics disadvantaged the poor but specifically the black people. In response‚ the oppressed used rap and hip-hop as a way to express themselves. Since then‚ rap has branched out to many different genres and messages. Dating since the birth of rap‚ musicians have used hip-hop as a platform to discuss a range of topics including
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