Essay about What Is R&B and Hip Hop Anymore?

had opposite rythyms and beats. The music that we listen to today is a wide variety. Our parent’s generations mostly had music from the 70s, 80s, or 90s. The comparisons between them are all different. The most favored modern music pertains to rap, hip-hop, and pop. Knowing that information will help to understand the comparisons between the decades. The 70s had a lot of disco, funk, smooth jazz, jazz-fusion, and soul. Rock music played an important part, with punk rock thriving throughout the mid

As an artist who played in both eras, Boyz II Men’s music provides us with a looking glass to see not only the change in the genre as a whole, but also the changing of his music as the eras shift. Today, Boyz II Men are one of the last harmonizing R&B groups still left in the genre today, which is unknown to many people, including me, who frequently listens to the genre. For most music lovers, Boyz II Men’s songs like “I’ll Make Love To You” and “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye” were well known songs

see a seed of talent grow & watch how the artists evolve with their music, seeing how long their progression takes, & see how they turn out throughout the four seasons. Philadelphia's own P.UR.E., Presence Unifies Rap Everywhere, has always been a hip hop artist/producer with raw talent, but after the release of his 4th project "Silence Is The Enemy" it seems that P.U.R.E. has evolved into James Weldon, a more confident MC who possessed the ability to be open & pour more emotion on his lyrics making

TLC was one of the biggest-selling female R&B groups of all time, with a blend of pop, hip-hop, and urban soul music during the 90s. The members of the group are Rozonda “Chilli’ Thomas, Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes. The group was formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1991. Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas was born on February 27, 1971 (“TLC”). She grew up in a fatherless home and was raised by her mother, Ava Linsey, 49, a retired keypunch operator and her grandmother. She didn't meet her

hide my true feelings about certain topics and ideas. I never truly got to express what I was really interested in, in fear of being outcast from everyone else. Even in the comfort of my own home, where the household culture was one that followed the ‘stereotypical’ African American culture that listened to hip hop and R&B and didn't like to associate themselves with anything that didn't fit into their box of what a black girl should and should not like. I sincerely felt alone. This lasted through

own, very few to none. They make it look easy to make your own tracks and get discovery. Their content can be uploaded within seconds and they automatically gain exposure around the world depending on who views it. An artist now has more freedom to what they want to do. In that respect, it can create much more competition according to Johnson. He says back in his day they had a hot record every two months, now it’s so many artists that it seems like every other day it’s something new. The market

drive to succeed strongly before their personal morals. The explicit language warnings on music covers are not enough. The foul language usage in music remains not the only concept that continues influencing the younger generation. Pop, country, R&B, and rap music continues having an immense impact on influencing the American youth. The biggest factor of these music

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There’s something about writing your raw emotions on a piece of paper that allows your spirit to run free and hold no boundaries of what you can think of and it's only the moments in life that can fuel the locked potential inside you. The epiphany of my life was actually closer to this present time than in the past, about last year my family moved from New haven to Branford. In New haven I was in a program which allowed me to go to Wallingford as a district school and I spent 6 years in this program

(Larson). Many of the genres created by Rock and Roll are still listened to this day and has also influenced other types of music and artists. The large amount of variety of music that is present today is due to the fragmentation of rock and roll and what the audience wanted to hear. This lead to the creation of a large variety of genres of rock to please every rock listener in the world.