Hip Hop Is Not Going Anywhere

Since its conception, hip hop has been a very necessary and influential art form in the way that it gives a voice to people who would normally not have one. The fact that it was often the sole voice for a marginalized community meant that the genre has often shouldered the “burden of being a genuine political force.” Hip hop’s role in addressing the concerns of urban Black Americans has led people to refer to it as “CNN for Black people.” However, in recent times, the commercialization of the genre (and growing popularity with white audiences) has generated a lot of criticism from many who feel that the essence of hip hop is being destroyed and it does not have as much of a meaningful effect on dispossessed Black youth as it used to have.

Even though, hip-hop is viewed as primarily of promoting negative message, however, it has reveled the pain behind the lyrics. “Hip hop music, had for over three and half decades, delivered a resounding message of freedom of expression, unity, peace, and protest against social injustices”. (Anderson & Jackson) As hip-hop continues to grow it has continued to remain a strong influential social impact. Hip-hop created a way for many individuals to express themselves on controversial issues seen throughout society.

The misunderstood subculture of music that many have come to know as “hip-hop” is given a critical examination by James McBride in his essay Hip-Hop Planet. McBride provides the reader with direct insight into the influence that hip-hop music has played in his life, as well as the lives of the American society. From the capitalist freedom that hip-hop music embodies to the disjointed families that plague this country, McBride explains that hip-hop music has a place for everyone. The implications that he presents in this essay about hip-hop music suggest that this movement symbolizes and encapsulates the struggle of various individual on

In the global popularity scene, hip hop now rules, and is a dominant cultural form in many parts of the world. Rap gives voice to every culture that produces and circulates it, not just African-Americans. As a new force, rap levels the playing field, opening doors to new cultural players, and ripens for new corporate snakes to pounce on. Circulating ideas, images, sound, and style, it is becoming central to the new multimedia global culture and is an expression of a multicultural world with no borders and limits.

Hip Hop was birthed in the neighborhood, where young people gathered in parks, on playgrounds, and neighborhood street corners, to verbalize poetry over spontaneous sounds and adopted melodies. Hip Hop was not just the music; it was also a way for the young to show their skills in break dancing, gymnastic dance style that was valued, and athleticism over choreographed fluidity. Hip hop was also fashion such as: hats, jackets, gold chains, and name-brand sneakers. Hip Hop was a form of graffiti, to a new way of expression that engaged spray paint on the subway walls as the canvas. In addition, today’s hip hop have changed as where the DJ was once is now the producer as the key music maker, and the park is now a studio.

In this article, the speaker must be an expert in politics, ethnicity and the music industry. There is a linkage between the above fields hence the speaker must have had a superlative background on these issues. The audience targeted by this literature were seemingly music enthusiasts to be educated on understanding what Hip-Hop entails and hoped to achieve this as it was established. The subject was Hip-Hop as a music genre that was largely developed by African American men to express their plight on injustice and oppression. The principal issue was how Hip-Hop has been used as a form of resistance and need for deliverance of the African Americans.

In your essay, “Hip Hop Planet” you discuss the roots of hip hop and how it impacts our world. I recognize your personal experiences and the challenges you faced within the genre may have driven you to write this piece. It was stated that hip hop is a great influence in our world. In another instance, you explain the message hip hop is sending and how we must to appreciate it. The motivation for this essay seems to be to educate people who don’t understand or respect hip hop’s role in our society and how it is drawing awareness, like a moth to a flame, to poverty and racial issues that hip hop has helped eliminate.

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.

Hip-hop is often referred to as a musical art form, it was created by African-Americans and Latino-Americans in the 1970s. Its concept came from a younger generation of African-Americans in the Bronx, it is different from rap because it also includes elements of pop ,some say it was a beautiful, prideful expression of music, art, and dance from a backdrop of poverty. Since that ignition in a New York City borough, it has inspired people from all across the world to produce this genre of music. However in 2015 Hip-Hop Continues to modernize and change ,these days caucasian rappers have begun to climb the Hip-Hop charts ,and this has spiked controversy all over,some believe that the culture of rap should remain with the people who worked the hardest for it, African-Americans . None the less, rap belongs to everyone because it favors caucasian rappers such as Eminem, Iggy Azalea, and Macklemore, who have worked just as hard as African-Americans, hip hop is no longer a subculture owned by African-Americans and history should affect decision if the present.

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.

To most people when they hear the term Hip-hop they think of ghetto music that only thugs like. I’m hear to show you that is not the case. Ever since the 1970’s it has been molded in a unique way each decade by various artist. Hip-Hop is new compared to most genres of music and that’s also one of the reasons I think it is still resented by the older generation. In this essay I will be dividing Hip-hop or “Rap” into three categories, past, present, and the future. Hip-hop has a rich history, but what it still has to offer is the reason it will be around for decades to come.

Rap music, also known as hip-hop, is a popular art form. Having risen from humble origins on the streets of New York City during the mid-1970s, hip-hop has since become a multifaceted cultural force. Observers say, hip-hop is more than just music. The culture that has blossomed around rap music in recent decades has influenced fashion, dance, television, film and—perhaps what has become the most controversially—the attitudes of American youth. For many rappers and rap fans during it’s early time, hip-hop provided an accurate, honest depiction of city life that had been considered conspicuously absent from other media sources, such as television. With a continuous growing number of rap artists within this period, hip-hop is being used as a platform to call for social progress and impart

In order to better understand the necessity and the influence of hip hop, the history of how and where this music emerged is highly important. In the 1970s, Hip hop was born in the “immensely impoverished, crime-ridden, drug-infested streets of the Bronx”, which were often called “America’s worst slum” or “the epitome of urban failure” (Price 4). Emmett Price III, the writer of Hip Hop Culture, says that the “ostracized, marginalized, and oppressed” youth started hip hop as “a liberation movement”, and they aimed to combat against “issues of racial prejudice, cultural persecution, and social, economic, and political disparities” (Price 1). From the 1970s to the 1990s, hip hop had increased

Hip Hop is an artistic and cultural movement that emerged in the South Bronx’s African American and Caribbean communities in the 1970’s. The movement was embraced by various cultures in the United States and around the world. It served as an escape goat for the social, political, and economic turbulence in the South Bronx. With the outbreak of drugs, poverty, and gangs, Hip Hop became a tool for expressing complicated truths in the world. Thus, Hip Hop destabilized and reconfigured racial, gender, and ethical issues while influencing social and political movements in the world. This essay will examine why Hip Hop developed in the South Bronx, the process of creating the movement, and the changes that helped Hip Hop become the empowering culture it is today.

Since the early to mid 90’s, hip-hop has undergone changes that purists would consider degenerating to its culture. At the root of these changes is what has been called “commercial hip-hop". Commercial hip-hop has deteriorated what so many emcees in the 80’s tried to build- a culture of music, dance, creativity, and artistry that would give people not only something to bob their head to, but also an avenue to express themselves and deliver a positive message to their surroundings.