KRS-One

After many mixtapes and nearing the edge of household name status, Maryland rapper Logic drops his first album. In this album is a song titled Gang Related. This song tells the story of what environment and household he grew up in. His brother is in a gang and sells cocaine to his father in front of him. Logic's mother is in an out of mental institutions, all the while logic is growing up and trying not to get shot when he walks outside. With drugs and gangs all around him, it is quite amazing that

something you live” (Nicholson, 1). One may ask how can a person live by Hip Hop? The answer lies within how an individual adopts the culture of Hip Hop and how they mold it into his or her’s personal identity: and no one did that as strong as Lawrence Parker himself. Lawrence Parker better known as KRS-One was and actually is a very prominent figure in the world of Hip Hop. Born and raised in Bronx, NY KRS-One was immediately drawn into the world of Hip Hop. KRS-One started his career as a part of a

KRS One once said, "Rap is something you do, Hip-Hop is something you live." The difference between how Hip-Hop is portrayed (rap) and what the Hip-Hop movement is, is that Hip-Hop is a lifestyle but the Hip-Hop we see on television is a media creation. We have to look at hip-hop as a whole culture and rap as something that comes out of it. Although Hip-Hop was originated by a mostly Negro constituency, it has evolved since its creation into a "worldwide forum through which family, community, social

Similarly, KRS-One also reflected afrocentric nationalism in his music. He was a rapper who was part of the hip hop group Boogie Down Productions based in New York who continued the group as a solo project after one of its members was killed. In the song, “You Must Learn,” he repeats Nas’s calls for an afrocentric education by rapping, “It seems to me in a school that’s ebony/African history should be pumped up steadily, but it’s not” (lines 9-10) It is illogical to him that in an all-Black school

This paper will explore and discuss the effects of rap/hip-hop music on the behavior of adolescents in the Unites States. The issue revolves around the possible negative impact of rap music on young minds, due to the use of profanity, reference to killing, sexually graphic verses, and inappropriate videos that are common in such music. The problem is seen to be pervasive, and quite controversial, receiving attention from researchers, academics, and parents who worry about how such music can influence

Rap, or hip hop as some call it, ranks in the top ten of most popular music genres in the world. Since it burst on the scene in the late 1970s, rap music changed the landscape of the music industry, especially for African-American artists. The genre accredited some of the biggest names in the music industry. Popular artists like LL Cool J, Tupac, Notorious B. I. G., Jay-Z, Kanye West, and many others produce, or have produced, millions of hip-hop records. The secret to the success of hip hop centers

need to express themselves better then the regular norms and “leave our mark” on the world. As they say the young ones has more to teach then there is to learn. If this is so then why is that no one listens to us, but instead they condemn us saying we are nothing but trouble. The challenges that we are given to don’t meet our satisfaction, and this is why we are stubborn because no one listens to words instead society tries to fix our vision by drowning our thoughts. Society is often perceived as

In the hallways of the school, students will continuously be blasting rap music while walking from class to class. While driving to destinations, beats from my rap music are always booming through my sound system in the car. Most teenagers find it normal to listen to a booming beat while in the car or through the headphones connected to the phone, but most parents do not like the offensiveness often related to the lyrics or the loudness of the beats. Rap music has been a commonly known genre of

constantly confronted with violent acts such as rape, assault, murder, school shootings and other violence's, society is eager and anxious to find and remove all causes of these cultural ills. All the blame can not be put on one particular thing but a heavier degree of blame can be put on one thing. Some of the violent acts listed above are expressed through music. Gangster rap, which followed

Since its origin in the late 1970’s in the South of Bronx in New York City, hip-hop has emerged as a national predominant form of music in America. Also known as rap music, it is consistent with fast rhythmic vocals that gained popularity for speaking the raw truth of matters many people were scared to deal with. Artists originally used this creative platform in order to give a voice to the urban poverty in America. However, the main issue in urban areas changed. The matter became more about the