Birth Of Hip Hop Analysis

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

Hip-Hop as well as many other artistic cultural forms we practice today can be related back to African culture and various traditions. Author of The Roots and Stylistic Foundations of the Rap Music and Tradition, Cheryl Keyes, discuss’ the spirit, style, tradition, emotions, culture and the delivery of music. Keyes says that many of these practices can be traced back to the West Afrikan Bardic Tradition in particular. When asking many old-school, and culturally involved hip-hop artists about the roots and origins of rap/hip-hop music many of them will refer to Africa.

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From the early 1980’s into the early 1990’s, hip-hop was an integral tool in the dissemination of young people’s voices against mainstream politics. These times were tense and rather controversial. It began with Reagan’s call for the reemergence of state rights; this call was a form of political messaging which utilized coded language targeting different groups with dual messages also known as dog whistling. It allowed individual states total power and control in instituting their own policies including segregation. On top of the aforementioned and in light of the increased state regulation, intense and increased police brutality became an unfortunate reflection of the times. As a result, many people, especially those of color, lost trust in

In this essay, I will be informing you, as the reader on the evolution of Hip-Hop/Rap. The key points will be where it is today, how this genre of music is not only used as music; but is used as communication to connect with the listeners, how it affects people; physically, mentally and psychologically. In other words, I will be addressing where it was created and how it is used to speak and communicate with the listeners.

Something that affects every genre of music, and is almost always agreed upon, is the fact that music is evolving Hip-hop is no exception. Unfortunately, it is not always a whole consensus that the music comes out better. In J-Zone’s article of “5 Things That Killed Hip-Hop,” he writes with poor academic tone, atrocious grammar, and non-cohesive paragraphs structure. He tells the readers his opinions of the change in hip-hop. His argument that hip-hop is dying is legitimate, and is backed up by his statements about social media, clans in the music industry, and copyrighting.

In this article Robert Tinajero analyzes rap/hip-hop through its Christian religious ethos and the deception of how the media attempts to use rap/hip-hop for the reason why religion ethos in lyrics can change the views of young urban adults to be non-affiliated with a religion (Tinajero, 2013). Rappers use a form of religion in lyrics that have characteristics of the common suffering of Jesus and the mistrust of society with the goods and evils in urban communities.

The hip-hop culture began in the streets of New York City during the 1970’s and has gone through tremendous changes up until now. Hip-Hop consists of four elements: rap, graffiti, break-dancing, and the disc jockey. In this paper, I intend to fully explain the evolution of rap music, from its infancy to the giant industry it is today.

1.) In this class we have examined the sociological forces that created the social conditions from which Hip-Hop emerged in the Bronx. Drawing upon Chang, as well as videos (Bronx is Burning, Flying Cut Sleeves etc.), discuss the sociological roots of rap. Specifically, what social forces (for example: state policies, global economic trends, technological advancements, community characteristics as well as race, class, gender politics) were present and facilitated the development of Hip-Hop?

Hip-hop is one of the most popular genres of music in the world today. However, the hip-hop of today’s world is very different from the hip-hop that started it all. Hip-hop has simply evolved to a different type of music than the hip-hop that started it all. Hip-hop started in Brooklyn in 1973 at a block party with DJ Kool Herc, known as the father of hip-hop, mixing the beats. However, hip-hop has changed. There are the advances in technology to help make different sounds for songs. There is the fighting between artists and rappers because of their geographical backgrounds, meaning the areas that they are from. There are many artists making breakthroughs with new styles and different types of lyrics, many of whom set the bar for

In the 1990’s we saw many artists sampling the work of other artists in order to make their own songs. Sampling is described “as the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one song recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece” (Wikipedia, 2016). Although sampling has been around for a long time, Hip Hop music was one of the most popular music genres to embrace this method and create their own style from it.

Today’s hip hop videos are very predictable with fancy locations (a mansion perhaps!), expensive jewelry, cars and of course, lots of beautiful scantily clad women who are used as eye candy to sexualize the content which is usually offensive and demeaning lyrics about women. T.I sexually explicit lyrics “no mediocre” addresses women as hoes and bitches and raps about his extremely high standards of what kind of “ women/bitch” he considers worthy to be with him and a music video that does just that, uses women as sex objects and nothing more. According to T.I in the video “Hip hop Vs America” he admits that nobody will watch a music video if he does not include half naked women and in order to be a successful hip hop artist sexualized images

What is hip hop? Is hip hop some gangster rap thing? No, hip hop is a type of music people love. Yes, people take it the wrong way and say stuff that they don’t mean in hip hop songs but, it’s just music. This paper is about the origins of hip hop movement and how it has affected everybody. We will also discuss its purpose and the major players involved.

Rap is about forty-five years old, and yet the density of its history is staggering. Starting with roots starting in West Africa bards, rap evolved from DJs and spoken word poetry related to the Black arts. With the background of DJ dance music and the rhyming scheme of poetry, rap started to evolve into its own genre which we know today. Even today you can find references to rap’s forefathers in such albums as Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly or Kanye West’s College Dropout. Their jazzy instrumentals or gospel influences are nods to what gave birth to rap. To be even more specific Fahashima Pratricia Brown noted that similarities between rap and its forefathers are “toasts and boasts … , shouts, jubilees, gospel songs, field hollers, work

Hip Hop in the most popular genre of music between all African American communities, not just in America, but worldwide. Hip Hop has expanded itself into music, fashion, advertisement, movies, and it’s given many rappers, and those associated with the genre, the chance to influence their communities, societies and their culture in general, but commercial Hip Hop in the U.S. has branded Hip Hop in a negative way. (The Young and The Hip-Hop, Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem, 2012, Web, Oct. 27, 2014) This is all due to the negative imagery and negative lyrics like the term nigga, negative implications of Hip Hop include exploiting black adolescent girls, promoting unhealthy lifestyles, and implying that the open use of the word nigga is not harmful. Hip Hop has become a global phenomenon where it has evolved from a genre of music to a lifestyle for the African American community.