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    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

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    The History Of Hip Hop

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    Hip-hop was part of my childhood in a small scale. I was never an aficionado of the genre, but have to admit an initial curiosity about the multiplicity of grooves and especially about the messages conveyed by its performers. The vibrantly paced “Straight Outta Compton” isn’t just a film about hip-hop but much more. It competently covers the episodes around the formation of the band N.W.A. in 1986 Compton, California, and all the subsequent happenings that led to its end and division of its members:

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    Hip Hop Diversity

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    In today's world of music there is indeed diversity. Rap and hip hop vary depending on who you ask, along with talent. I grew up in the area of Public Enemy, D.O.C, C.C. Peniston, Anita Baker, Raze, Rob Base & D.J. Easy Rock, Peabo Bryson, Melissa Morgan to name a few. I cannot forget to mention Luke. Each one of these artist shaped the way I view life in a manner of speaking. Music is life and it has the ability to transport, elevate and calm us down or when you are feeling nostalgic. It is indeed

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    Hip Hop Sampling

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    Hip Hop music has always been tied to the music and sounds of the past. Sampling might be one of the most apparent nods to past legacies. Andrew Bartlett explored the concept of sampling in his “Airshafts, Loudspeakers and the Hip Hop Sample” article (Forman, 393). In his project, he highlighted authors that referred to sampling as “holding music at gunpoint” and a “mixing of colors” (393). Sampling is all of the above and a keystone in hip-hop. As an avid listener of the genre, many cadences and

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    Lindy Hop Research Paper

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    I would prefer Lindy Hop because it is a dance which helps to express ourselves and requires high-vitality, quick swing that hits the dance floor. It is a partnered dance form, traditionally danced a male and a female. In this dance the man drives steps and the lady deciphers the signs and takes after. The essential stride used in this dance is called the swingout. Artists performs alone in the vacant position, then the couple meets up to dance in the swingout’s shut position. All in all, the swing

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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 Sociology

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    get a better understanding of rap music and its origins, it is necessary to investigate within a larger historical framework of hip-hop, which derives from African American cultural aesthetic traditions and movements. Specifically, to understand hip-hop culture, one needs to know about the social and economic situations in the 1970s New York. In the beginning, hip-hop culture was a Black, Hispanic and male-dominated youth movement during the 1970s and the South Bronx was the most indigent neighbourhood

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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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    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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