I get in the car, because i'm on my way to school I load up youtube and start my offline playlist. I hit the song Gucci Gang, by Lil Pump. It starts playing with a upbeat track, I turn up the volume until the car is shaking. Later, as the song reaches the chorus I starting singing “Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang.” My Mom starts talking about what kind of garbage is this. I reply by telling her it's Gucci gang by Lil Pump. She starts blabbing about what kind of name is that, she also complained about his hair and the message it is portaring. As she talks her words fly past my ear and continue singing. Surprisingly my mom starts to join along and sing as well. Isn’t this song Gucci, I tell her. What she responds? Nevermind… We
Have you ever wondered what famous person you would want to meet? What you would want to do with them, or talk about, or where would you be? Let me tell you about how my encounter would be.
My ambition is to become an artist with a sharp business mind that is capable of branding myself to an icon of the Chinese youth culture of the new generation. David Burd, AKA ‘Lil Dicky’, a Jewish rapper who graduated from University of Richmond with a 3.93 GPA majoring in Business Administration holding a ‘RIAA’ Platinum track in his debut album, inspires me to become a similar figure, or even an upgraded version of him with a deeper understanding of the ‘Music’ and ‘Business’ bond through my education.
Music can rock your world, enlighten your mind and change your perspective. When you think of rap music who comes first to mind? Without hesitation, it must be the self acclaimed best rapper alive, Lil Wayne. He alone can make such statements as “My picture should be in the dictionary next to the definition of definition” (Wayne, “Shoot Me Down”). Lil Wayne is a prominent force in the rap world. His debut Album in 1999, Tha Block is Hot went double platinum upon its release and even his lowest selling album is still certified as gold according to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Rollingstone Magazine declares “Lil Wayne is one of the most popular — and prolific — recording artists in the world” (Kreps). Top this with
With fame comes exposure. And J. Cole is famous now. He occupies a unique space in hip hop, somewhere between the backpacker and the club banger-creator. It makes for an easy listening experience, but he also incorporates clever, intricate rhyming into his music. Anyway. Back to the list.
Dwayne Michael Carter Jr. (born September 27, 1982) also known by his stage name Lil Wayne he is an American hip hop icon from New Orleans, Louisiana. Lil Wayne started his rap career at the age of nine signed to cash money records. Sense then has won a total of 63 awards and created one of the most known and very successful record labels in hip hop that he titled young money records. He has also started the career of some of the greatest artist today; like nicki minaj and drake which he quoted “was his best discovery “. Giving his label more than 11 U.S. No. 1 albums and making Lil Wayne a music mogul. The first artist he signs was drake who came out on top in hip hop entertainment giving young money 7 successful project and many features.
Billy Brown had not got his hands on any award till now but with the amount of work he does he is bound to get awards in future. He got nominated once in Screen Actors Guild Awards for the award of Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
A new up and coming artist by the name of “Lil Pump” became an overnight sensation and went viral over all social media platforms with a hit song “Gucci Gang”. In the entertainment business, the more popularity you gain the greater asset (profit potential) you are to a record label. Warner Bros. Records saw exactly that with the artist Lil Pump and pursued. Lil Pump’s hit song peaked at number three on the Billboard hot 100 song chart with 280 million streams, while reaching top five on the Billboard chart, he was also given a $350,000 advance. Warner Bros, Records were sure that they had their next “meal ticket”, until they received a letter to void Lil Pump’s contract. A contract can be voided under the grounds: the signer is underage. In
While many rappers, musicians, athletes, and other popular stars have partied their wealth away or spent their time on the social media circuit, the famed producer and rapper Swizz Beatz used his extra time and talent to dabble in the world of art.
Rap music is defined as popular music advanced by disc jockeys and urban blacks in the late 1970s. This kind of music consists of a repeated beat pattern that provides the background for rapid, urban language, accompanied by a vocalist. Hip-Hop music is a genre that originated in the United States by inner-city African Americans in the 1970s which consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. The Difference between rap and hip-hop music defined by EBONY is that hip-hop is a culture while rapping is one of four elements contained therein—the others being breakdancing, DJing and graffiti. The perception of rap music/hip-hop music by academic scholars is often accurate, in the portrayal that types of rap/hip-hop musicians often exhibit violent, misogynistic, antisocial, and materialistic content and behavior. Writer’s Johnetta B. Cole, Tia Tyree, Michelle Jones, Matthew Oware, and have all discussed the topic of rap music, and the ways in which it exhibits violent, misogynistic, antisocial, and materialistic content and behavior.
For many years, the youth have been known for singing along to their favorite song and taking that song as whole and using it as their motto for life. It may seem that sometimes these kids do not know what is being said in the music but this shows that they do know what the lyrics are saying. According to Franklin B. Krohn and Frances L. Suazo in their article “Contemporary Urban Music: Controversial Messages in Hip-Hop and Rap Lyrics,” many teenagers and minority groups view rappers as their spokesmen because of their ability to speak in street language and bluntly express their frustration (Krohn, 1995). Unfortunately, hip hop lyrics usually tend to talk about drugs, sex and violence leading kids to think that everything they hear is okay and that is how they have to live their life. Yet, there are artists out there who take their lyricist skills to give positive lyrics and messages in their music, but these songs are not often played in the mainstream.
The day later, my mom brings two bottles of white wines to return by herself. I saw two missing calls from my mom during my break time. I called her and ask where she at and I meet her at the place I work. I walk out the store where I work and saw my mom still carry the bag of wines. I ask her “why you call me two times, and do you return the wines yet?” She said discontinuously “I…I just went already” breathing, she continues saying “The person won’t let me return the wines, only exchange that’s the reason I want to
I was too late. The “officer” had already reached the car and began to haul Sarah out of the car. I immediately tried to get out of the car, but the car door was jammed. Struggling to get to the other side of the car, I reached out to see if I could save Sarah, but the kidnapper had already gotten out of my reach. He was dragging Sarah unwillingly to a van that had pulled up on the opposite side of the traffic. A few men ran out to help get Sarah and her attacker into the van. I saw one of the men inject Sarah with a liquid.
J. Cole today is a very different rapper from the J. Cole we first heard on Jay-Z's aptly titled track from The Blueprint 3, "A Star is Born" and that's a good thing. J. Cole's first appearance was nothing short of fire, with that very same verse being the foundation for a long roller-coaster of a journey; from a kid with big dreams in New York, to one of the most well-known and popular rappers in the world.
I walk up the stairs and down the hall into her room. It smells like alcohol and here and there are beer bottles all over the floor. I walk into the bathroom that 's connected to the room to find my mom kneeling over a toilet bowl, hurling. She still has a hold of a beer bottle.
Upon seeing me with makeup, my mom asked why I had lipstick on. She has this belief that applying lipstick will remove my lip’s original color and hates when I put any color on my lips. She especially hates dark lipsticks, since according to her it does not go with my personality. She also mentioned that my face looked different, and I told her it was because I was wearing makeup. She said it was not necessary and that my skin would be ruined all because I want to look prettier. As for my hair, she would watch me fixing my hair and would comment that burning my hair is pointless. My dad told me that I looked less tired, but