hip hop subculture essay

The Rise of Hip Hop Culture Hip hop, the creation of electronic sound and enticing language is a style born from the African American and Hispanic cultures. It formed in New York City from block parties and the participation of the youth culture. This style of music began as a minimal change in rhythm to a globally popular culture consisting of graffiti art, dancing, and music. Hip hop was not only a type of tasteful music, but it also became a benchmark in history. When this style of music was

Popular Albums of 2015 & People often go through relationship issues, breakups, sadness, depression, struggles, and other emotional events. Listening to songs gives people’s emotion a voice to which they can relate to. Being able to connect to people at such a deep and personal level allows songs to become popular and allows the Artist’s album to rise to the top and be successful. In the year 2015, there were many successful albums that were released, but in my opinion Drake’s album If You’re Reading

people know, this is established the start of a worldwide phenomenon and lifestyle. Hip hop is a misunderstood culture that has been driven out from its roots by media and the new generation. Society knows little behind the birth of hip hop, but as for the dance portion of hip hop, b-boying is the true art form. Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell, an African American DJ known to hip hop pioneers as the father of hip hop, gave the name "b-boy" to

choreographer. A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the few works to be performed as a play, a movie, and a dance production. The choreographer of this production, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, was discussed as being an accomplished artist whose love of jazz and hip hop influenced her creative decisions. The lecturer also touched upon how Williams’ life affected the play. The character Stanley was said to be modelled on his own father. The story of Streetcar is also very much affected by the time in which it is

'Love and Hip Hop Atlanta': Backstabbers [Photos] [Video] Tonight (August 10, 2015) on 'Love and Hip Hop Atlanta' Kirk surprised Rasheeda with her very own store in the biggest mall in Atlanta. Scrappy meets Jasmine at the barbershop and lets him know, Momma Dee and Ernest is getting married soon. Scrappy is shocked since its too soon. Joseline sits down with Gayborhood, gay promoters about performing for the LGBT community and bring awareness to the bullying and suicide. Marci, the CEO wanted

In 2001, Alien Ant Farm’s second album, ANThology, became a sensation on the strength of its first single, a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal.” It is, by all means, a great cover, managing to pay homage to the King of Pop while at the same time injecting a dose of punkish rock and humor to a song about a murder. It was a huge hit, but it somewhat stereotyped the band as a one-hit wonder, even though the next two singles from the album, “Movies” and “Attitude,” were well received and ANThology

Note: I had the pleasure to sit down with Nikolai and discuss his new mixtape TiedDown. Quotes from the interview are spread throughout this review. It's been almost eight months since Texas and California rapper, Nikolai Rya, dropped his first mixtape The System. A fairly lengthy project at over 17 tracks, it was a more introspective and positive project. Rya's new mixtape here though, TiedDown, which dropped a week ago, is the reason we are all here today. TiedDown is much more concise and to-the-point

Summary of Newspaper Article (use your own words): Jennifer Lopez, an iconic singer, is being stigmatized for dating younger men. The stigmatization formed when Lopez had a relationship with Casper Smart, an actor and dancer. They were 18 years apart at that time. Now the public wants to know if there's anything between her and the rapper, Drake. They’re 17 years apart with Lopez being 47 years old whereas Drake is 30. Lopez is poked and probed by Ellen Degeneres about her relationship with Drake

his perspective forward and we all have the right to do so. But, I would say that I neither agree nor disagree with him, but still that he is being too harsh on the subject at hand. Since I have never shown any interest in punk rock, I’m more of a hip

Yvonne Daniels, also known as the first lady of radio, is an influential women who paved the way for more women to become disc jockeys. In her 30 plus year career in radio she worked at WYNR, WCFL, WSDM, WLS-AM, WVON, WGCI-AM/FM , and WNUA. Daniels was an African American “broadcast pioneer”. She was born in 1937 in Jacksonville, Florida, to Billy Daniels a jazz musician. Growing up she was always surrounded by music. She has said that her dad influenced her taste in music from an early age. He would