French hip hop

Melanie Georgiades, more commonly referred to as Diam’s, played a major role in the French hip-hop history due to her highly controversial music and challenging feminism brought out in a world of machismo. Born in Cyprus in 1980, Diam’s was an only child raised by a single mother in France, in the suburbs of Orsay. Growing up Diam’s was heavily inspired by French mainstream music: specifically rap and pop. Most notably among the musicians that inspired Diam’s are Supreme NTM and Public Enemy; similarities

Over the last four decades, hip hop culture has influenced the lives and identities of many youth throughout the world. Depending on their geographical location and socioeconomic backgrounds, youth have experienced this worldwide culture differently. One similarity amongst these selective groups of adolescents is the political freedom that has come with engaging in the hip hop scene. Hip hop allows Black youth in the United States, immigrant youth in France, and Afro-Cuban youth in Cuba to express

greatly progressed. Music still tells a story, we know just have many genres to satisfy the cultural and social tastes of our modern society. Hip Hop is a genre of music that has significantly grown the last couple of decades. It's increased popularity has brought it to the forefront of globalization. Technological advances has made it easy for Hip Hop to spread out globally. This occurrence of globalization is a key example that as our cultural borders are broken down by technology, our own

The hip-hop group that started a lot of this culture in Germany is Die Fantatichen Vier (The Fantastic Four), the most common urban centers where the hip-hop culture was most important were; Berlin, Hamburg, and Stuttgart. As stated above hip-hop culture includes other expressions other than the music, and in Germany graffiti and breakdancing were very popular in the early 1980's. From when hip-hop started, 1980's, to now there, like any other trend or culture, has a difference in opinion through

The Mafia’s influence on Hip-Hop In Rap, there is a unique culture, history, social impact and influence on society. Hip-Hop/Rap is one of the most popular genre of music. It has helped shape the pop culture into what it is today. What is popular culture? The ideas, activities or products, which are popular among the general mass. In today’s pop culture, one subject that is at the top of the list is hip-hop/rap. Hip-Hop music highlights verses consisting of slang and catchy phrases, which some

Many people believe that Hip Hop is detrimental to society. I do believe that a lot of hip-hop culture revolves around negative things, whether it be objectification of women, violence, drugs, pimping, the care free lifestyle, now worrying about anyone but yourself, and being materialistic. All of that does not lead society in a good direction. And if you as a black person consider that to be you culture, that hip-hop is your culture, and the hip-hop you listen too predominantly promotes things such

Look into the Life of Hip-Hop The misunderstood subculture of music that many have come to know as “hip-hop” is given a critical examination by James McBride in his essay Hip-Hop Planet. McBride provides the reader with direct insight into the influence that hip-hop music has played in his life, as well as the lives of the American society. From the capitalist freedom that hip-hop music embodies to the disjointed families that plague this country, McBride explains that hip-hop music has a place for

Ariana French Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Fieldwork Youth Cultures (EDUC 817- 001) Dr. Andorful In order to prove that the Hip-Hop culture’s beliefs and goals have changed, I am mostly going to rely heavily on the culture’s music. Hip-Hop music has been the voice of the Hip-Hop culture since the beginning. It has been an outlet for those in the Hip-Hop culture to vent. To understand the changes in beliefs for the culture of Hip-Hop I must first distinguish what the original beliefs were

Swiss Hip Hop and Rap According to Michael Dyson and Wikipedia, Hip hop music and Hip Hop culture formed during the 1970s when block parties became increasingly popular in New York City. The genre became home to and was developed by African American youth residing in the Bronx. Block parties involved DJs playing very percussive breaks of popular songs Then Rapping developed as the primary vocal style of the genre. Hip hop 's early evolution occurred as sampling technology and drum-machines became

at different areas around the globe, they produce their music using American hip-hop beats. The Haitian people blend it with customary Kreyol language while the artist in Montreal rap in French and mix in “their own language codes” (Vertus 2016). Both groups rapping about the socioeconomic challenges faced every day like poverty, ghetto life, and the drug culture. Haiti’s more lenient when it comes to accepting hip-hop into their culture and has grown considerably and undergone many changes over