Hops

You may know Kendrick Lamar as a rapper in today’s hip-hop. His rise to top was one of the best as he worked with some of the best from the “old school” generation such as The Game, Busta Rhymes, Snoop Dogg, and even Dr.Dre. He began rapping and dropped his first project at the age of 16. Now I’m going to tell you more about his early childhood and family. Kendrick Lamar was born in Compton, California. His parents were from Chicago. His father was involved in gangs and his families had ties to

Artist Nas once described hip-hop as. “That feel of music with urgency, music that speaks to you. It’s blunt, it's raw, straight off the street from the beat, to the voice, to the words.” The use of language in hip-hop opposed to other musical genres is the essence of the material itself. Language is more important THAN any instrument or any sound effect, it sets the tone using many devices such as rhyming or metaphors in order to share a message. That being said, the way language is used in hip-hip

passion becoming mainstream and sucked dry of its money, resources, and talent. Hip-Hop music is a prime example of an art form going global and changing the lives of billions. With those promising attributes corporations find it to be an easy cash grab because of its influence on society. Theirs many reasons for Hip-Hop being at the top of its game monetarily but what about the art form's moral standing? Hip-Hop has been around for over 20 years now and was looked down upon in its earlier days for

Roll, R&B, and Hip-hop all owe their sound to cultural sharing. Although great music has been created, the identity of the music has caused racial problems. The most recent of these is Hip Hop. The origins of Hip Hop can be traced back to the early 1970s in the South Bronx. “Hip-hop, as it was then known, was a product of pure streetwise ingenuity; extracting rhythms and melodies from existing records and mixing them up with searing poetry chronicling life in the 'hood, hip-hop spilled out of the

documentary film “Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” addresses some of the biggest issues of hip-hop to date. It explores why rappers feel the need to portray a thug persona on camera, why rappers choose to treat woman like sex objects, and how is this affecting our society as a whole. This results in the discussion of who is the one pulling the strings of hip-hop, who is the one giving out those big money deals? In order to understand these issues one must know the history of hip-hop and how it started

Demonizing women - Sexual advertisement v. Hip Hop culture Two articles address a great social issue of showing sex and violence to demonize women. Both use similar strategies to convey their message. The first article is titled "Two ways a woman can get hurt": Advertising and violence, by Jean Kilbourne, displays the potent effect of negative advertisements, showing women as a sex object. This article shows using vulgar and sexual advertisement men as dominant and irresistible whereas women as

birth of hip-hop possible. Culture was simply the reason we found ourselves looking for a way to make money as the Harlemites did during the Renaissance period. Immigrants and businessman strived and hustled to get everything out of nothing. White folks downtown started the entertainment industry and black folks needed to make money due to no work and tough living conditions in Harlem. Black folks could always make quick money in the entertainment business. The whole system producing hip-hop was how mechanisms

the author of It’s Bigger than Hip-Hop: The Rise of the Post Hip-Hop Generation. In this article, Asante predicts that the post-hip-hop generation will embrace social justice issues including women’s rights, gay’s rights, and the anti-war movement. To challenge these stereotypes, Asante speaks to the personification of the African-American ghetto and the need to stop glorifying black suffering. For Asante, the post-hip-hop generation no longer expects hip-hop to mobilize disenfranchised youth. Asante

Hip-Hop has changed over the decades some of these decades include the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. Hip-Hop came from New York, few people knew about Hip-Hop when it was first being created in the late 1970s. Hip-hop did not really emerge until the 1980s when more Hip-Hop artist recorded and released more music. The 1990s came along Hip-Hop turned more vulgar which is also my favorite Hip-Hop era. The early 2000s is the most memorable. Hip-Hop has evolved into many forms some rock bands have even done

” Hip-hop started in New York, like in the Mississippi Delta and the blues, its just like that or New Orleans and jazz, that physical environment just informs the way that people apply the sound and whatever. But as it started to migrate, the sound started to change according to the places that it was traveling to. Geography shapes how these mediums sound because the people and the places are different (Lena 494). Today, the terms "rap" and "rapping" are so closely associated with hip-hop music