An Analysis Of Hip Hop Music

Hip hop, the creation of electronic sound and enticing language is a style born from the African American and Hispanic cultures. It formed in New York City from block parties and the participation of the youth culture. This style of music began as a minimal change in rhythm to a globally popular culture consisting of graffiti art, dancing, and music. Hip hop was not only a type of tasteful music, but it also became a benchmark in history. When this style of music was created, it served as an outlet for those who did not have a voice, particularly the minority groups. These groups were given rights that they deserved just like everyone else. In the 1970’s is when hip hop began to spread, creating not just

Are you looking for a change in music? How about you start listening to Hip hop, these songs will blow your mind, just enter the world of hip hop. These songs will bring you up beat, make you want to dance, and some of the lyrics are interesting, like the things they talk about.

In the past 2 years alone, more than 3 dozen criminal prosecutions have had rap lyrics be presented by the prosecutor as a vital piece of evidence in the case. [Manly] In many of these cases the prosecutor will use violent lyrics created by the defendant to prove that that person is inherently dangerous and in other cases, will use the lyrics as a direct confession to having committed the crime in question. If you read into these cases you will notice a common theme between them; the defense will claim that the lyrics are freedom of speech and should be considered artistic expression, while the prosecutors will claim that the song is either a criminal threat or has too many similarities to the actual crime that it should be considered a confession. The primary basis for this debate is that hip-hop music is a misunderstood cultural practice because of the racial divide between the defendant and the criminal justice system.

Hip Hop music been around for about thirty years in United Sates, but it would be heard at block parties and discos where DJs would circumnavigate breakbeats and MCs would adjoin live vocals. Finally, this paper will explain the history of hip hop, from the beginning to now. There will be an explanation about hip hop the lyrics used within and also the images. Moreover, it will also zero in on the unacceptance of hip hop and also a sample of lyrics that is used in hip hop music.

Molefi Asante is the author of It’s Bigger than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip-Hop Generation. In this article, Asante predicts that the post-hip-hop generation will embrace social justice issues including women’s rights, gay’s rights, and the anti-war movement. To challenge these stereotypes, Asante speaks to the personification of the African-American ghetto and the need to stop glorifying black suffering. For Asante, the post-hip-hop generation no longer expects hip-hop to mobilize disenfranchised youth. Asante states, “The post-hip-hop generation shouldn’t wait for mainstream musicians to say what needs to be said…No movement is about beats and rhythms…. it must be bigger than hip-hop.” Because hip-hop is controlled by corporations, Asante says hip-hop will never be the focus of political change. Asante argues that “old white men” have dictated hip-hop, and by extension the actions of black youth, since 1991. “Allowing white executives, not from the hip-hop culture, to control and dictate the culture is tragic because the music, and ultimately the culture, as we can see today, has not only lost its edge, but its sense of rebellion and black movement- the very principles upon which it was founded.” Asante calls for the rise of “artivism,” a new social movement that uses art to improve community police relations, failing schools and the criminal justice system. Asante encourages the post-hip-hop generation to unite with Latino/Immigration Rights and Black Civil Rights

In your responce to Hip hop, you wrote the letter called " Hip Hop Nation". You stated that hiphop sounds like a broken record, but the problem is that your daughter is getting married to a Hip Hop Rapper. Since you heard hip hop, and the one song talked and influenced violence, he is worried for his daughter and doesn’t like her spouse. To continue, you also said that hip hop is taking over and only children can hear it. My saying this, you added that children are going to pick up these

Rap music has experienced a radical increase in popularity in the last five years. In the year 2000, rap became the second-best-selling genre in music, capturing 12.9 percent of the year's $14.3 billion in total record sales ("Rap/Hip Hop" Sc 1). Though rap is no stranger to criticism, that criticism has increased in both quantity and vociferousness at about the same rate as the number of rap albums climbing the charts. And the growing evidence that, apparently, in order to achieve commercial success, each rap album must be more negative and offensive than the last does not help to address these criticisms.

Hip hop has gone a far way since the 1980s. in the year 2016, hip hop is considered popular and many people, no matter the color of your skin or where you come from are seen listening to Hip Hop. I personally believe that hip hop has become more acceptable in our society. Often time in these songs they discuss about politics, love, issues, many problems that people can relate to and have a connection with someone. However, there are those artists that are seen in the category similar to “Gangsta Rap” and those are still present in 2016. Therefore, our perception of hip hop has changed since the 1970s/80s.

Bolivian youth have used hip-hop music for expression with political issues as well as the social issues the young people of Bolivia face. In Latin America, hip-hop helps tell the stories of the struggles. It is described in the article to be a “Hip-hop revolution” because of the criticism and examination of the social political, economic structure, and the inequalities. In El Alto, Bolivia is where youth are using hip-hop as a way to “spread education as a cultural action of freedom”. It is about making sense of their economic, social and political situations.

It all started with the birth of a nation. The shameful crimes that build this country rest on the backs of an enslaved people, yesterday in chains and with laws and today behind bars and within socialization. The tale is as old as our time.

This is what shines in this piece of Hip Hop culture. Where everything on the radio screams out the same words and has the same feel, here enters Ghost One and Dr. G with their calculated and well-thoughtout blueprints that are masterfully airbrushed onto the canvas with visuals of struggle. Yet, they still have this sense of strength that they cling to within the narrative that eminates wisdom and knowledge that comes from the past and the reading of the vast surroundings that is the cosmos.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, language is "the system of words or signs that people use to express thoughts and feelings to each other". Therefore, language can be considered as a form of human communication. As cultures and societies grow and evolve, language evolves with them too. Annually, four thousand words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary . Many factors contribute to the evolution of the English Language such as: technological advances, interaction and exposure to other languages, and the always evolving contemporary American culture. The hip hop culture greatly contributes to the semantic change of the English language.

When you think of hip-hop music what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Is it violence, explicit lyrics, sex, extravagant fashion and drugs? If so there is a reason why hip-hop music is the way it is. There are also some details that explain that hip-hop targets the youth. Breaking down facts and opinion discussing problems from movies to music videos, fashion, poverty and the violence that all has affected the youth in the community. From shooting at the cops to shooting up movies theatres and who is the first to blame it on hip-hop political and media groups. In some way shape of form hip-hop isn’t all about what you think it’s out to be because hip-hop reflects on what goes on in the world in a positive way through the struggles that blacks have overcome to get where they are today.

The Hip Hop is basically a cultural movement that originated in the Suburbs of cities. It was began to evolve in 1970 and in particular by the Americans who of African descent (American Africans) . Rap is a type of singing. It combines the performance of different rap utter words without committing to a particular tune, and rhythm. Rap began in Kingston, Jamaica City at the end of the sixties as a kind new musical was derived from dancehall. It has spread in the United States at the beginning of the seventies in the Bronx. Since the hip-hop appeared in New York in the early seventies. This phenomenon has grown to include all ways of life and living, that for a number of compact and well-established factors such as: Ethnic minority, technology, art, the street 's life and slums. Often these trading music and singing folk poets and street youth who suffer from oppression, troubled physical and social conditions such as poverty, unemployment, addiction, or who the rigors of life led them to engage in the world of gangs and the drug trade. That does not put hip-hop within narrow limits of poverty, drugs and crime and delinquency framework. Perhaps one of the most important reasons which made the music of hip-hop spread at the Arab streets is a domination of American culture through cinema and the media. There is a permanent tendency among Arab youth to mimic any kind of American cultures especially because it promoted with the utmost intelligence, skill and craft in addition

This paper seeks to examine the different dimensions of hip hop, and what the hip hop culture means to different people. After reading Fernando Orejuela’s Rap and Hip Hop Culture, one would get a better understanding of the various dimensions of the hip hop culture. For instance, there is a cultural dimension that has played a tremendous role in the hip hop culture. Many of the modern styles of dancing and music have come from traditions that were passed down. According to Orejuela, this is in part because of slavery (Orejuela, 5). “Hip hop culture has its roots in the spread of African and Latino peoples from their original homes to the Americas”, states Orejuela (Orejuela, 5). Orejuela goes on to later discuss exactly how their customs have influenced this hip hop culture. An example of this is when Orejuela states, “Many influences, from Africa and Europe, have been combined to form a number of popular dance forms that themselves can be seen as ancestors of b-boying and breakdancing” (Orejuela, 26). From this, it is clear that culture is of importance in hip hop. Although this is true, there are also other dimensions that have influenced this culture as well.