Personal Narrative Essay: Summer Of 1994

With an excited crowd he acknowledges his Nashville audience and asks them to sit down and we immediately enter the realm of Cedric's jokes with his charisma and his down to earth personality. Cedric begins his routine with speaking of how he's the last "brother" to lose weight in Hollywood and the fashion choices of the young folk in today's generation.

It was a fine Sunday Morning. I was about to experience a fun day of baseball. It was a beautiful afternoon for a trip to the ballpark. I could hardly wait to get there to experience all of the fun things. I was with my brother and his girlfriend and my two nephews and me.I got there by car with my brother's girlfriend and me and my nephew. When we got there we went to the park there and played on the playground. Then we headed up to our seats which were all the way at the top ,one of the best seats in the house. I went down to the concession stand and my brother gave me $20 to buy three pops and a small pop for my nephews and me. The guys who comes to you and give you the ice cream and stuff. we got slushies

Miles White, who is a former staff writer for USA Today and author of a critical social-historical study of hip hop culture. “In 2007, I attended a concert by 50 Cent in the Czech Republic capital of Prague that had been heavily advertised for several weeks with a darkened, grimacing image of the Queens, New York, rapper on large posters throughout the city. I was admittedly more curious to see who buys enough tickets to a

When I first started thinking about college schools I never thought about going to MSU or Ole Miss. I wanted to go to the bigger universities, but I knew I wouldn’t do well if I went there my first year. My high school did not prepare me enough for University, and I hadn’t decided on a major either. I choose East Central Community College (ECCC) as the school I would go to for many reasons, and when I got here I knew I made the right choice.

"Man but for real tho lemme tell you how Tuesday made a nigga feel like he was floating. I'm talking bout head game so good bruh. For real bruh lemme hook you up." His best friend went on as he thought to himself. Man I already smashed that hoe and her head game aint all that. Hell her ass was

After that session we all decided to go to the monkeys concert later that night. We weren’t going to watch and or listen to the monkeys! We were going to go mess with the people actually going to the concert! Later that night we made the drive from Long Island down to Queens. We made it outside the monkeys concert just laughing and pointing at the monkey fans. We meant some people doing the same thing. So we met up with a couple guys named Eric and Dan. Both high school students from the outskirts of Queens. Eric told us that there is a Rolling Stones concert down at Shea Stadium right now. They said they would of went but it was sold out. The concert started at 8:00, at the moment it was 5:00. Archie and Jimmy really wanted to go the concert so didn’t all of us but there was no way we were going to get in the venue without a

“So I told that bitch that if she had a problem with me, she could either say it to my face or get hit. It doesn’t matter anyway because she’ll be kissing my ass when I’m the lead of the musical this year. Faline. Faline, are you listening?”

I recently wrote an essay about the development of the star persona of Ice Cube, the rapper/actor who has made the unusual transition from hardcore gangsta rapper to leading man in such “family-friendly” films as Are We There Yet? The essay, entitled “With an Attitude: The Development of Ice Cube’s Star Persona,” will soon be published in the online film journal 16:9; I’ll link to it as soon as it’s up. The thesis of the essay is that, for all the apparent and unexpected alterations to his “street” persona, Cube’s film characters are nevertheless almost always coded as gangstas – an association that he has not been able (or has not wanted) to shake.

“Yes Radar.” I responded flatly, the faint singing of a summoning ritual being cast finally rooting in my mind.

However, the Grateful Dead had been playing for nearly an hour and a half before the amps overloaded. But it was great. Riley was at a loss for words, and he and the boy next to him couldn’t stop talking about it. In fact, they had talked throughout Creedence Clearwater Revival’s entire set, but they immediately stopped their chatter when it came time to Janis Joplin. Riley focused all of his attention onto the “Queen of Psychedelic Soul”. To him, she was a queen – a very beautiful one at that. His camera was nearly out of film because of her – the boy next to him probably went insane from the click, click, clicking. Someone told him it was about 3 AM now. Riley and his new acquaintance had agreed on sleeping through the next set to save their energy for The Who, because coming from experience, Riley knew he had to be awake for

The first thing we notice is that he is the only white person there. As we have mentioned before, rap music was pioneered by African-Americans. Not only that, one of the recurring themes within early rap culture was the discussion of ‘whiteness’ and ‘white privilege’ as a contrast to the ‘black experience’ in America. As one of the few active white rappers at the time, Eminem himself spoke about his ‘whiteness’ and ‘white privilege’ in order to break the ice and be accepted into the rap culture. He often used his own life-experiences to talk about how the ‘system’ was unjust towards not just African-Americans, but all people who were members of the working classes. Besides this, Eminem pioneered the usage of self-deprecating humour with regards to his racial identity and his ‘unique position’ in the world of rap

Ice-T interviews many influential and important MC’s in the rap game, both old school and new school, enabling the viewer to really gain knowledge on the role of the MC. Three MC’s interviewed that really explain the role of the MC is Grandmaster Caz, Ice-T, and Big Daddy Kane. During Grandmaster Caz’s interview, he explains how he started out as an MC, taking his parents old funk and soul records and rapping over the beats. He believes the most important part of rap is the lyrics, explaining his technique of trying to go beyond what the next MC is going to do. Throughout the film, Ice-T adds in his own commentary about the MC and being one himself has important points about the role of the MC. Ice-T stresses the MC has a gift of communication and states the MC, “Gets everybody 's attention with displays of verbal acrobatics,” which I believe is a great way to explain the art of MC’ing. He then explains how the MC tells stories of their lives and daily struggles, showing this rap game is about more than just

“I know that group and their sound stinks, but their lyrics are unbelievable. If I didn’t know better Juice, I would swear that your little brother here was moonlighting. As your brother just said, there’s nothing special about the group except the lead singer. She’s the only thing worth salvaging. The rest of them should be scrapped or turned into a bad Las Vegas lounge act. I’ve never seen them in person, but I heard them on the radio”

With the rise of the drill music scene, the allure of Chiraq as a powerful allegory evoking considerable media interest and a new film [of the same name] by director Spike Lee, the term has taken on a life of its own generating wealth and attention that has created turbulence for both rappers. Their newfound popularity has forced them to move to Los Angles due to them becoming targets for robbery as well as internal conflicts within their crews as economic and social divisions take shape. Additionally, Chief Keef, who has experienced consistent encounters with the police suggests that he will remain a target because of the belief that his music insights violence among black youth in Chicago (Vice). Also, Lil Durk indirectly reveals that past indiscretions and the ease of accessibility of his schedule through social media tracking and tour announcements has made him vulnerable to possible violence. In the Vice documentary Chiraq, Lil Durk is asked, “Do you see a future where Chicago is safe enough for you to live with your kids there?” To which he replies, “…there is animosity there and I don’t want to risk it. People, they’ll act like they forgive but they don’t forget. What happened in the past…some people don’t care about life. They aint got nothing to live for so I aint risk

This time, Fallon actually told the truth: "A CD case of Bon Jovi's 2005 album Have A Nice Day but inside is Greenday's Dookie CD."