Rap And Hip Hop Music

The rest of the chapter talks about the similarity of minstrel images in 1990s hip-hop, as evidenced by the defining characteristics of greed, violence, hyper sexuality and pathos in “gangsta rap” (a sub-genre of hip-hop further defined in chapter two). Ogbar balances this landscape with challenges to what he calls “neo-minstrelsy” from both inside and outside the hip-hop community, including discussions of the Spike Lee movie, Bamboozled, underground conscious hip-hop groups such as The Roots and Little Brother, and the activist “Stop Coonin’ Movement”, to name a few. Throughout the book, Ogbar explains how rappers strive for authenticity by “keepin’ it real”. And that is defined by how they rap, walk, talk, and make their

Hip-hop is a cultured style that started in the 1970’s. Majority of different funk groups began playing disco music at that time it was popular. During this time funk music was technology driven more electronic sounds were being used on the drum machines. Funk was the new dance in the early 70’s. This particular style of singing in which was being used is called rapping, this begun in African American, Urban Areas, Jamaican American, Latino American and many others cities of the United States. The group of artist or singer say words with a rhythm that rhymes. Some hip-hop music lyrics are about violence and illegal drugs. Often time lyrics are about the life of urban people who stay in big cities. Other styles that hip-hop uses come from

Nelson George states that “Gangsta rap is direct by- product of crack explosion. Unless you grasp that connection nothing else that happened in the hip hop’s journey to national scapegoat will make sense. This is not a chicken-or-the-egg riddle —first came rocks, then gangsta rap” (136). To prove his point he examines the connection between drug culture of the inner city areas and the hip hop music. The money collected from illegal drug deals spent on recordings of gangsta rap music. George says “Suspicion of women, loyalty to the crew, adoption of a stone face in confronting the world, hatred of authority—all major themes of gangsta rap-owe their presence of lyrics and impact on audiences to the large number of African-American men incarcerated in the ‘90s” (138). I agree with his statement that gangsta rap is a directed by- product of crack explosion, because social and racial issues for instance drug dealing influencing the lyrics of music and this explosion of heroin and crack in communities gave birth to gangsta rap.

“I said the hip hop, Hippie to the hippie, the hip, hip hop, and you don’t stop, a rock it to the bang, bang boogie, say you jump the boogie, to the rhythm of the boogie, the beat.” “Rapper’s Delight” is a song recorded in 1979 by American hip hop trio The Sugarhill Gang. It was the original 12-inch single was 15 minutes of incontestable urban-playboy bragging. “Rapper’s Delight” was not the first single but, it is generally considered to be the song that made hip hop in the United States popular and around the world. “Love, love me do, you know I love you, I’ll always be true, so please, love me do, whoa, love me do” The Beatles. “Love Me Do” was recorded in 1962 by The Beatles. “Love Me Do” a favorite for the lovers of oldies music. The

Many contradicting views surround rap music’s controversial subjects and use of language. While some consider it highly offensive, there is some validity to the rhetoric applied in political rap. In the 1990’s racial inequality is rampant with uprisings and segregated neighborhoods that condemn minorities and lower socioeconomic classes to inhumane living conditions. Specifically, Tupac Shakur’s posthumous song “I Wonder if Heaven Got a Ghetto” combines an emancipatory lyric with a hopeful and upbeat instrumental to assess the racial inequality in society and the possibility of a better future.

It was twenty years ago that the rap group N.W.A with Ice Cube as its most vital lyricist released its album “Straight Outta Compton”. They called their music reality rap, everyone else called it gangsta and music history was made. Hip hop music came from the clubs and sidewalks of New York City as party music made with turntables and rhymes by performers who usually couldn’t afford music instruments. It was party music and then it came west and got a beat down by a swaggering collective that called itself N.W.A. They took the genre to the dangerous side of the street (Boucher,2008).

The emergence of this song was the first time that the racism and corrupt nature of the nation’s law enforcement had been publicly addressed in music. In Hip-Hop Rhetoric, it is especially important that we focus on the reasons why such emotionally charged statements were made in the first place, instead of focusing on the negative societal response to such culturally unique perspectives due to lack of cultural understanding. The recognition of the shared feelings of anger and resentment amongst the African American community is a major step in solving the issue of alienation. Kenneth Burke, author of A Rhetoric of Motives, uses the term “identification” to differentiate between his rhetorical view and the traditional perspective described by the term persuasion. Burke asserts that “identification is affirmed with earnestness precisely because there is division… If men were not apart from one another, there would be no need for the rhetorician to proclaim their unity” (Burke 22).

Frequently, the gansta rap has been the center of attention on national debates regarding the amount of violence in the media and its effects on America’s youth. In some occasions, there have been cases in where political experts and television analysts have accused individual rap starts for real life tragic events. However, it is imperative to understand that if hip hop music is violent, it is because the songs express the reality that African American live on a daily basis. In order to be objective on this matter, it is essential to look past the controversy and acknowledge that it is unrealistic for one particular

People around the world have different ways of expressing their emotions. Many people use music as a way to release the emotions they feel inside. When listeners analyze a song sometimes they can understand what an artist might feel or better understand their perspective. Many African American artists sing about how African American communities are dragged into a never ending cycle of poverty and criminal activity. Some artists many have a different perceptive on the future of these communities where they grew up in. Gang Starr’s “Code of the Streets” and 2Pac “Changes” exposes the experience of living, being raised in a poor community expressing different emotions in the song.

I would study the ways rap music affects African American as a whole. My hypothesis would be H1: African American portray themselves in hip-hop by misogyny, violence, and the negotiation of a white own space.H2: Black women are categorized as a sexual being or radical rather than a human being. I would study the lyrics of the music see how sex and the utter disrecpect for black woman are used in rappers music. I would also do a survey as to how African Americans view rappers and their music as well as their view towards the way woman are potrayed in the music. I would also categorized the songs I picked and place them in the category that Patrica Hill Collins has set forth. She catorgized black woman into several different categories and

In her article, “From Compton to Cape Town: Black(faceless)ness and the Appropriation of Gangsta Rap in Die Antwoord's “Fok Julle Naaiers,” Kitchiner Lanisa brings up a quote from “The Art of Rap” where Ice Cube adds that “[Gangsta rap] is street knowledge…[Its] letting the streets know what the politicians is trying to do to them. And then, letting the politicians know what the streets think of them, if they listening” (77). This quote implies that their lyrics told everything that the minorities wanted to tell the authorities and lyrics also informed the colored people about the injustice. By admitting the fact that Ice Cube presented, it is undeniable to say that the lyrics had a great impact on making colored people mindful about their rights. In conclusion, the lyrics of gangsta rap produced an anti-authority movement because of the fact that the authority was using illegal power against colored

Hip Hop is more than just music, it is a culture. Over the past three nearly four decades, Hip Hop has influenced and uplifted Black America, speaking out for generations of families whilst providing a voice to a group of people trying to deliver a message both politically and therapeutically and some may say at times also very controversially. It was viewed as “street language” or “ghetto” due to its harsh language, associations with explicit sex, alcohol, gambling, street gang violence, drugs, and even prostitution. During the uprising of Hip Hop there was a marked rapid increase in street violence and drug use known as the “Crack era” during the late 80’s and early 90’s as some say it was the directly influenced by Hip Hop music . Marked at times as retaliation toward law enforcement, most Hip Hop songs and that time was focused on the unfairness and inequality of Black Americans amongst American society. Heavily criticized in the 1980 's, Hip-Hop still managed to enter mainstream in the 1990 's and by the early 2000 's, it was the mainstream music genre replacing the likes of more contemporary music. By constantly

This paper will open by first and foremost, explaining the different sociological meanings of the term power, so as the reader has an understanding of the arguments being made. This will allow anybody reading this paper to follow the arguments being made. Music can provide a means of resistance for challenging the power relations of racism, class and gender in a number of ways. The first way that this paper will approach this is the racial aspect and as a means of doing this, the main focus point will be Eminem and his break-through in to the Rap/ Hip-hop genre. This is relevant because he was the first white person to ever successfully break into this specific genre of predominantly Black artists. This will lead neatly onto the next element to answering the question of music providing a means of resistance for challenging power relations, It will move on to look at the class element of resisting and challenging power. This section will start off by continuing with regard to Eminem and how he used his “underclass” background as a means of connecting with his black counterparts, But still gaining acceptance from his peers and even forming a working relationship with an already massively established artist that aided him in his entrance to the hip-hop music industry and his credibility their after. Whilst still staying with subject matter of class, this

Rap and hip-hop music have evolved politically over the last decade; these genres have become major forces and influential political factors for North American youth and young adults. For example, Nas, a popular rap star of politically motivated songs sold 1 million copies of his first album Illmatic by Dec. 2001, and by 2004 Nas released his 7th platinum album Street Disciple. The album Street Disciple contained a powerful political song titled “American Way”. In addition, Lakeyta M Bonnet’s book Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black Politics, expresses the way hip hop music acts as a catalyst for the involvement of urban minorities in politics. While “Paint the White House Black” an academic journal by Richmond, Sanford K. displays the present day relationship the current president in America has with hip hop music. The song “American Way”, along with the book Pulse of the People, and the Academic Journal “Paint the White House Black” elaborate on how hip hop music and politics were born with conflict, but are evolving toward better recognition of hip-hop culture in democracy.

K-pop and Western music are two unique and completely opposite music genres. Originating on opposite sides of the planet, and both extremely popular throughout the world. On YouTube if the reader searches “ Her By Block B” and “Heathens By Twenty One Pilots”, both have an enormous amount of views on YouTube (YouTube). Although Heathens was featured in a popular movie, Suicide Squad, which gave them leverage to their popularity. Block B did a fantastic job in popularity due to their inability of being featured in a movie. This Research paper will explore and explain the differences between the genres, including their styles and instrumental aspects of their songs.