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    The Music Of The Hip Hop

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    The Hip Hop is basically a cultural movement that originated in the Suburbs of cities. It was began to evolve in 1970 and in particular by the Americans who of African descent (American Africans) . Rap is a type of singing. It combines the performance of different rap utter words without committing to a particular tune, and rhythm. Rap began in Kingston, Jamaica City at the end of the sixties as a kind new musical was derived from dancehall. It has spread in the United States at the beginning of

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    Rap Hop And Hip Hop

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    Rap/Hip-Hop is a huge part of today’s music industry, with a more loyal fan base than any other genre of music. Even though they have such a large following, there are still many that disapprove of how the Rap game is conducted, and have no respect for the people who claim to be rappers. Many people look at Hip-Hop artists and think that they are all hard, gang-banging, drug-slanging thugs from the hood. But in all reality most of the rappers in modern Hip-Hop had never stepped foot in the hood

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    Hip-hop is a cultural rap music. Writer like it so much he write about it and also think about how to make a some changes in it. Rap music has has a graffiti writing, break dance and deejaying. Graffiti writing is one piece of art on canvas. We can do hip-hop in park, graffiti in the backdrop and rap on the center of the stage. Hip-hop is form in so many variety of music. To learn hip-hop you have to understand their elements. Hip-hop influence black women. In U.S they have song for slave they find

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    Hip Hop And Hip Rap Music

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    study of hip hop music has been cited well throughout its growth over time. The purpose of this paper is intended to discuss hip hop culture and address cultural stereotypes associated with rap and hip-hop music, but also how its original lyrical intentions were forms of expression and art. It will begin by guiding the reader through how it originated, its influence with the African-Americans with its subculture and popularity in urban areas, its styles of evolving, the introduction of hip hop and rap

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    The Music Of Hip Hop

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    Hip hop is a very broad subculture due to the fact that it is comprised of so many other subcultures. The four main factions of Hip hop are MCing(master of ceremonies) better identified today as rapping, DJing (disk jockey), breakdancing and Graffiti. Break dancing is known as “ the physical manifestation of the hip hop style”(Rose 47). The Hip hop subculture has a long lineage and the four main factions where all foraged together in the same place at the same time. Even though the culture at the

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    Eminem's Hip-Hop

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    Hip-Hop belongs to the greatest artist alive: Eminem, and many artists, and fans can back that up for you. Jay-Z spoke about Eminem's album sales, saying it is a travesty that he is the highest-selling rapper of all-time. Statistically, Eminem is the most successful rapper ever, building his foundations with his first record The Slim Shady EP, and its follow up, The Marshall Mathers LP. In fact, it was Eminem's second-place finish finish at the 1997 Rap Olympics that helped land him on Interscope

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    Hip-Hop is the most dominant genre in the U.S. surpassing Rock, Country Music and R&B. Hip-Hop took music to a whole different dynamic, with its catchy beats and rhythmic music accompanied by rhyming. Unfortunately despite all the excellent elements that Hip-Hop has brought to the table, the Hip-Hop industry is known to promote a great deal of gun violence. This day in age rappers take pride in using their guns, bragging about the many guns they have, and have no problem telling the world that their

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    Walker’s descriptions of the hip hop culture when she was younger. I did enjoy the author’s style, she explains how she discovered what hip-hop “was”, and how it didn’t only change her but, and how it has changed the way people think about hip-hop too. Walker states, “That desire to come together irrespective of superficial differences and sometimes in celebration of them, was what gave hip-hop authenticity that was what kept it honest.” (From the story Before Hip-Hop Was Hip-Hop). If you asked someone

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    Hip Hop Stereotypes

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    Hip-hop culture has been rapidly growing as a popular trend amongst youths in Western culture. Social media platforms like Instagram are flooded with photos of white teens posing in black rap artist t-shirts, wearing their hair in corn-rows, and captioning their pictures with famous black rap artist quotes. When quoting these lyrics, or listening to these hip-hop songs, they most likely are not thinking of the meaning behind the artists’ words. When reciting Tupac or N.W.A., do they relate to or

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    Hip-Hop Essay

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    February 15, 2012 The Positives and Negatives of Hip-Hop In Geoffrey Bennett’s essay titled, “Hip-Hop: A Roadblock or Pathway to Black Empowerment,” he speaks about the positive and negative effects that hip-hop has on the Black Community. Bennett goes all the way to the beginning of hip-hop, which he says took place in the early 1980s with rappers such as Run DMC, Public Enemy, Sugar Hill Gang and many others. The author then speaks about how hip-hop grew not only in the young black African American

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