Victor Oladipo Kehinde Babatunde Victor Oladipo is a professional basketball player affiliated with the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA)‚ as well as a vocalist. He participated in collegiate basketball for the Indiana Hoosiers. Among his many honours from the 2012–2013 season were selection as a first-team All–American by the USBWA and Sporting News‚ as well as the titles of Men’s College Basketball Player of the Year and Co-NABC Defensive Player of the Year. In that
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When you look across the league‚ you still see cornrows‚ tattoos‚ arm sleeves‚ headbands and hip-hop culture and then you will realize there is someone missing. The king of all that‚ the player who revolutionized the league his way‚ whether you liked it or not‚ the dude who broke ankles for 13 straight years and played every game as if it was his last is not there. He is no where to be found and his story is quite tragic; in a way‚ he is the forgotten one‚ the league is missing the one and only
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She made her big screen debut in Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever (1991)‚ which was an interracial romance drama. (Allen‚ 45) The following year‚ she appeared in the crime thriller Juice with Tupac Shakur. From 1993 to 1998 she landed a leading role in the comedic sitcom Living Single. If that was enough‚ In 1996 she co started with Jada Pinkett Smith and Vivica Fox in Set It Off‚ and later with Denzel Washington and Angelina Jolie in The Bone Collector
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Hip-Hop versus R&B Rhythm and blues was considered strictly black music. The black culture is a phenomenal subject representing the life style‚ imagination and accomplishments of people. One of the most outstanding and unique characteristic that makes this culture one of a kind is the music I has produced. Music has a common characteristic that is unique to all cultures throughout the world. Today‚ I want to focus on the comparing of two music styles Hip-Hop versus R&B and the
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(Gay 8). Africans express the psychological effects of slavery on their culture sometimes through poetry. In a modern form‚ Tupac Shakur poetry is used to paint a picture of the evolution of a mind traumatized by slavery‚ for his life was a wretched symbol of the unconscious thought that existed during slavery that of which still impedes African American thought today. Shakur
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With the help of technology hip-hop has become a global movement. This newfound globalization has connected different people by one love of the hip-hop culture. Some ways in which people connect through hip-hop include international organizations and competitions. A prime example is Hip Hop International (HHI)‚ the creators of MTV’s America’s Best Dance Crew. HHI puts on a world competition each year for dance crews to compete for a world title in Las Vegas. While it is a competition‚ it is also
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Event essay (2350 words) Throughout the years the event industry has gained a major place in everyday life. From the first events of the 19th century‚ such as the Great Exhibition‚ to a 2012 music festival. The event industry has developed a huge help to our country’s economy. To the extent of which the “government is supporting and promoting events as part of their strategies for economic development” (Bowdin and Allen‚ 2006). There are several types of events. Nowadays‚ there is almost an event
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We would usually think that the reason for this is because they were never really shown any love from family or friends. Willie was always picked on during school and in the streets. Tupac Shakur raps about this in his Thugz Mansion lyrics. Tupac raps‚ “…no one knows my struggle‚ they only see the trouble. Not knowin it’s hard to carry on when no one loves you.” Butch was only shown love by mainly his grandmother‚ but even then it was rare. Willie on the other
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Rap’s Controversy The most popular new music to emerge from the 80’s was rap music. It first developed in the mid 70’s in New York City‚ and soon in other urban areas‚ primarily amongst African-American teen-agers. It became very popular with the urban public that it soon began to spread throughout the United States and much of the world. It replaced rock music as the creative force in music of the 80’s and 90’s. However‚ as popular as it was then and it is now‚ the lyrics of many rap songs
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I feel that one of the biggest problems that the United States is faced with in the present day is juvenile crime. Juvenile crime does not only affect the individuals who commit the crime‚ it also affects the victim of the crime. This also affects the juvenile in their adult lives as the crime can be on their record as long as they live. Experts still have not found the main reason why juveniles commit crimes. However‚ they have come up with a number of reasons of why juvenile’s commit crimes‚ which
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