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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The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto. 1st ed. New Jersey: Pearson Education‚ 2008. 134-135. Print. Public Enemy. “Fear of a Black Planet.” Motown Records‚ 1989. CD. Odd Future. “We Got Bitches.” The O.T.F Tape Vol. 2. Odd Future‚ 2012.CD. Tupac Shakur. “Keep Ya Head Up.” Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. Interscope Records‚ 1993. CD. Yin Yang Twins. “Wait (The Whisper Song).” United State of Atlanta. TVT Records‚ 2005. CD. 2Live Crew. As Nasty As They Wanna Be. Global Satellite‚ 1989. CD. "Kimora
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Music and Society have always been intimately related. Throughout the years‚ music has had the power to influence the behavior of individuals and societies. Music has been thought of as a very powerful medium within social groups because it can facilitate communication beyond strictly words. Music has multiple meanings which can promote the development of individual‚ cultural and national identities. Today‚ music has been criticized for corrupting youth. For example‚ Rap music has been blamed for
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There are many celebrities that influence the counter-culture. For example‚ Tupac Shakur. He is a rapper‚ record producer‚ actor‚ and poet. He has sold over 75 million records all over the world. Shakur stood up and talked for those people who could not be heard. He rapped about how messed up the government and society in general was. He rapped about how police were harassing people‚ how
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including influential artists and songwriters‚ and the influence of this genre on the development of Afro-American Music. You are to write an essay based on your research‚ with particular reference to the two designated works by Marvin Gaye and Tupac. Soul music is a mixture of gospel with rhythm and blues. Although soul developed much earlier than 1950‚ it first gained popularity within the late 1950s and came to be called soul jazz which self-consciously used melodic figures or riffs derived
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favorite lines in a rap song is “Im cooler to a polar bears toe nails.”(Andre 300‚ ATLiens) In This song The raper compares his persona’s coolness and to that of the arctic chill felt by a polar bears toe nails. Tupac Shakur a famous raper wrote a song called “Me & My Girlfriend”‚ Tupac Compares his gun to his
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The term illuminati – first given in May 1776 – has reached a new height of popularity for all the wrong reasons. Its origins came when Adam Weishaupt founded the group known as the Bavarian illuminati‚ an Enlightment-era secret society whose main aims were to oppose superstition‚ obscurantism‚ religious influence over public life and abuses of state power. The illuminati along with the Freemasonries and other secret societies’were outlawed by the Bavarian leader‚ Charles Theodore‚ through Edict
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First of all‚ several sources say Marion “Suge” Knight had Biggie killed to throw the LAPD off his scent for the Tupac murder case‚ which he had been a prime suspect in (Wittmer). Furthermore‚ there was an investigator on Biggie’s case‚ Russell Poole‚ who accused other LAPD members of being connected to Suge Knight and his label‚ Death Row Records (Winton). Poole had
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Also Maya Angelou and Tupac Shakur from the modern writers. From the Harlem Renaissance‚ for example in the poem “Sympathy” (Dunbar) he explains how he knows how the caged bird feels because he himself feels like a caged bird trying to get out of this cage of social injustice for him and his fellow Black Americans. Another example of this is in the poem “I‚ too” (Hughes) he
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……………………………………………………….……… 13 “Taint” by Grace Nichols……………………………………………………………………………………..……………… 14 “First Fire” by Camille T. Dungy…………………………………………………………………………………………… 15 “God Give to Men” by Arna Bontemps…………………………………………………………………………….…… 16 “Ghetto Gospel” by Tupac Shakur‚ Elton John‚ and Bernie Taupin…………………………………..…… 17-19 Epilogue ……..………………………………………………………………………………………………..……………… 20 Bibliography ……..………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 21 2|Page P R O L O G U E In the last few decades‚ the African-American
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