Hops

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

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 today

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

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

Hip Hop and the Media Hip Hop is probably the fastest growing forms of music that has taken the world and the media by storm. What started in the Bronx as a hobby for some young African Americans and Latinos quickly became a distinct culture that broke barriers. Hip Hop created a culture that is so controversial and diverse, that many people in politics tried to bring it down. At the same time, many fought to keep it going and intent on proving that there are many positives that have come out of

Since its early days Hip Hop has been in the midst of political and racial violence here in America; sometimes not good, but always real. Nocella II et al. (2017) article stated that: Hip Hop was founded as a response to faulty urban policy, poverty, and social rejection. The culture is founded upon the principles of community and resistance to the status quo. The theme of anti-colonial and anti-racist practices connects Hip Hop culture/activism to the work of food justice and environmental justice

genres. However the artists that I feel has changed the culture of hip-hop genre are still in control of it still today. The artists are Jay-Z, Nas, and Kanye West, some of the greatest of all time. To me they remind of Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan, and Paul Pierce because they’re some of the greatest that are still relevant in today’s hip-hop game. All of them have their own unique style while still adapting to the current style of hip-hop. The question is what makes them some of the greatest of all time

confinements of my room while my eyes shut out the outside world. The array of G Minor and F Sharp piano scales fused with the voice of Justin Timberlake and produced a song about how fame fools, and humility rules. To many I may come off as a hip-hop junkie, but Hip-hop was not always a large part of my life. While I always enjoyed listening to various artists like Michael Jackson or the Beatles in the backseat of my dad’s

Hip-hop began in the streets of New York City 44 years ago to be exact. Hip-hop has gone though a lot of changes up until now. From what I have learned from watching a documentary on Netflix is that hip-hop consists of: rap, graffiti, break-dancing, and disc jockey. In this paper I will do my best to fully explain how rap became what it is today. The way it emerged in 1970’s. There are honestly only two ways I can start off by telling you about what I have learned about where hip-hop came from

Authenticity of Hip-Hop Authenticity has been connected to hip-hop since the genre’s inception in the late 1970s. Claims to authenticity are widespread to an unparalleled degree throughout all types of hip-hop music, from “gangsta”, lyrical, and party. Why is hip-hop preoccupied to such a large extent with the notion of authenticity? What qualities creates authentic hip-hop? Despite the previous absence of scholarly attention given to hip-hop, there has been a recent growth in hip-hop academia as the