Hip hop music

When hip-hop first emerged in the streets of New York in the 1970s, nobody predicted that this new type of sound would become as admired and widespread as it has become. This new genre of music has encouraged and motivated numerous artists from not just the United States, but elsewhere to integrate their own originality and create a new sound that several audiences can enjoy throughout. I started to pay attention to Puerto-Rican rap group Calle 13 when I first heard their song "Atreve-Te-Te".

“Gangsta rap” has been around since the late 1980s, and has been categorized as a specific type of hip hop. Reflecting the violent lifestyles of many black American youths living within the inner cities of the West and East coast, gangsta rap became a voice. The genre reflected on and spoke about the harsh realities of what life for a black person during the 1980s. One of the most prominent rap names during this era that became the voice for many people throughout the nation was the N.W.A (Niggaz

Top five lists are usually made among fans of hip-hop music, including myself rank rappers by making a top five or top ten list of the best rappers out now and the best rappers of all time. For many real hip-hop heads that can be very difficult, especially for the ones who don’t have a huge bias toward a certain era of hip-hop. Even MTV gets the list wrong every year. Another way that can be hard is because a lot rappers put on the list, for drastically different reasons. Some will be put on for

culture that puts these artists image at a advantage when they make music about breaking the law or even go as far to holding jail time themselves? The history of Rap/Hip Hop Music is one that dates back to the late 70’s where a group of neighborhood kids from the predominantly urban and economically depressed projects of the South Bronx, who used rhyming over a beat as a sort of entertainment. Rap which is also known as hip-hop is a complex of culture comprising the mixture of four elements: deejaying

Hip Hop music also uses profanity and vulgar language that the young people hear, use and apply. These lyrics are extremely provocative and give off a major misconception that the youth listen and practice. The lyrics also do damage on the black youth through the young black females as they dismantle the characteristics and belittle them in the eyes of men so that they only look at themselves as objects and subjective figures. According to Ronald Roach’s article, he includes how a nationally syndicated

die for this music but they do not know the past of their so beloved genre. Knowing the background is very important because you want to relate to the music you are listening to. This helps you grasp the meaning of the lyrics more and understand the style they are using. Rap music has developed from DJ Kool Herc and his new ideas, the first song reaching the top 100 charts, and other types of genres such as jazz, R&B, poetry, and black gospel music. Hip Hop Rap, a very popular music genre, acquired

Rhetorical Analysis of Hip-Hop Music Sharon Rhetorical Analysis of hip-hop music among Black Americans in ‘From the margins to the mainstream: the political power of hip-hop’ by Katina R. Stapleton Thesis: the paper’s focus on hip-hop as a music genre that has changed the lives of the black Americans Introduction In this article, the speaker must be an expert in politics, ethnicity and the music industry. There is a linkage between the above fields hence the speaker must have had a superlative

of the most influential and popular music genres for many years to come: hip-hop. Hip-hop, or “rap” music, is a form of R&B, with rhythmic lyrics over stronger, faster, and bass booming beats. Like rock and roll, hip-hop music was born and established throughout the African-American culture. While white fans and supporters were not completely out of sight, hip-hop music aimed to attract the black culture early on. It wasn’t until the Beastie Boys that rap music was being delivered by a white group

confronted racism. In “Zimbabwe” and “Africa Unite” he protests colonialism. Music therefore, does influence a person’s feelings, how they think, and what they perceive as social norms. Rap glorifies drugs, guns and violence thus teens may end up imitating what they see in videos. There have been some instances where rap has directly influenced criminal behavior. A state trooper was shot dead in Texas in 1992 by a car thief who had been listening to gangsta rap at the time of the incident.

she be passive, soft, and sensitive. The part of media that abused these stereotypes the most were music videos. From Rock N’ Roll to Hip-Hop to Country, most of the artist within these genres abused the gender identity of a woman and a man. In the culture of Hip-Hop music videos, the men are rich and all thug like while all the women are dancing around the men with no clothes on. Lupe Fiasco’s music video,”Bitch Bad” identifies how media shows what a “bad bitch” means to a boy and a girl. The video