Iggy Azala

The term ‘hip-hop’ refers to a complex culture compromising of four elements: deejaying, rapping, rhyming, graffiti painting, and b-boying. These elements incorporate hip-hop dance, style, and attitude. “Hip-hop originated in the primarily African American economically depressed South Bronx section of New York City in the late 1970s” (Tate, pg.1). Hip-hop is a culture of fashion, language, music, movement, visual art and expression. The genre of hip-hop comes with a very significant history and evolution with its own heroes, legends, triumphs and downfalls. “Real” hip-hop is often stressed in the 21st century due to what is being passed off as hip hop, and it is often made clear that just because one takes a hip hop class, or listens to hip-hop music, does not mean they conform to the true immersion of hip-hop culture. Therefore, “real” hip-hop encapsulates the true essence of hip-hop culture, untarnished by impurities such as rapacious record labels, and vapid, materialistic subject matter. Due to the background of how and where hip-hop first emerged, the African American culture often feel responsible to protect what is for them, and to protect the culture of hip-hop entirely. Boyd states that even though hip-hop as a culture was created as a social movement, the “commercializaiton” of hip-hop demonstrated in film and media construes it to another form of urbanization and popularity”(Boyd, 79). However, in the two movies being examined in this essay (Save the Last Dance

One of the more prominent criticisms of hip that Rose points out is that there is a large amount of misplaced blame in the world of hip hop. She writes, “increasingly, too many of hip hop’s supporters point to structural racism to explain the origins of the problem but refuse to link these structural forces to individual action and to the power of media seduction” (p. 73). In this section of the second chapter, Rose is explaining that those who defend commercial hip hop are taking a more-or-less one-dimensional approach to their arguments by solely blaming structural racism and overlooking the

In seventh grade, I stumbled my way upon the Detroit based rapper Eminem. I was at 150 listens on his track The Real Slim Shady before I knew it. I then found my way into Kanye West, which exploded my interest into the genre. I have listened to all of

In his recent essay “When the People Cheer: How Hip-Hop Failed Black America,” Questlove, famed drummer of The Roots, declares that “hip-hop has taken over black music.” But hip-hop has taken over not only black music; it has also fundamentally taken over mainstream American music. This may sound like a grand

Whilst Johns’ sickness impacted her life forever to Perkins it’s not her defining feature. “People who don’t know her either think she has lived this life of glamour or the complete

Jay Z, just like his wife, he has joined the train of celebrity endorsement himself. He is a part of Samsung, 2k13, Sport Teams, alcohol, making a to of $500 million. These celebrity’s knows the importance of being a part of a major business deal because the majority of the celebrity that are involve are making most of their income off endorsement alone.

Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was a famous tejano singer, fashion designer, and dancer. She lived from 1971-1995. Many fans still carry on her memory. She was a Mexican American and sang both Mexican music and American music. Her life story is interesting and many should know about how she

Introduction 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.

Rap Direct, listened to a miniscule five albums in the time frame between fall of 2015 and fall of 2016, two of those were by the same artist. Wait, it somehow gets worse. Sans the fact that the head of a fucking music blog barely even listens to music, the albums he listened to practically define everything that I consider represents a safe-haven in modern mainstream music. What I mean by safe-haven is that these projects, those of which include Drake’s underwhelming Views and Kanye West’s overhyped The Life of Pablo, are merely nothing more than what already play on the radio constantly, making each hit song on the project practically

Aretha Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and pianist commonly referred to as "The Queen of Soul". Although renowned for her soul recordings, Franklin is also adept at jazz, rock, blues, pop, R&B and gospel. She is widely acclaimed for her passionate

Hip-Hop and Hyper-commercialism Simple beat, simple rhyme scheme, strong message. "Vans don't cost G's, real niggaz wear these – Vans," says a member of The Pack in the music video aptly titled "Vans." You may be asking yourself, "So, what's the big deal?" The big, highly lucrative deal is

Recently on social media, twitter turned into a roast fest as Andre said in an interview that he believed Big Boi was a better “rapper” than him. To anyone that actually listens to Outkast, you probably read that interview without thinking anything of it. For the “International Players Anthem” crowd on the other hand, they took that interview as complete blasphemy. I don’t have an issue with whether you agree or disagree with Andre, but to pretend like his statement is something foolish is completely idiotic. Andre is a great rapper, but I always thought it was known that Andre was looked at as the artist, while Big Boi was the rappers rapper. Andre always seemed to be the one that pushed

Hip Hop culture has come from a inner city expression of life to a multi-billion dollar business. At the beginning of the new millennium it was the top selling genre in the pop charts. It had influences not only on music, but on fashion, film, television, and print. In 2004 Hip Hop celebrated its 30th year anniversary. It wasn’t big for the fact that it was still kicking. It was big because the once Black/Brown inner city culture had grown into a multi-billion dollar global phenomenon (Reeves). Hip Hop culture has provided a platform for all walks of life to speak their mind. Over the past 36 years it has provided us with both entertainment and controversy alike and had a huge impact on our nation’s history. `

Iggy Azalea seems to be taking her frustrations of a failing career out on anybody she can find. The rapper who recently had her tour cancelled and then allegedly had her album pushed back is now attacking Britney Spears for a failed song. According to InTouch Weekly on Tuesday, Iggy Azalea blamed the failure of the single “Pretty Girls” on Britney Spears’ lack of promotion.

Celebrities are a perfect example of people who can comfortably spends thousands on fashion. It can be seen all over T.V. or social media: celebrities at events such as award shows in multi-thousand dollar outfits. Some people believe it is all for image, but some may disagree and say that they spend it because they have the money to. Money spent on expensive designer brands is very commonly depicted in music by famous rappers. Rapper Lil Uzi Vert says in his song: “Early 20 Rager”, “Four-hundred dollars for a brand-new Gucci beanie” (“Lil Uzi Vert 25”). This lyric signifies a form of materialism through an influential artist asserting that he spends large amounts of money on designer brands, in this case, Gucci. Another rap artist, Jeremih, featured in G Herbo’s: “This N’ That” says “I mix my Balmain with Goyard” (“G Herbo 22”). Yet