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    Today, I witnessed a 14-year old boy walk onto a Cleveland public bus with a bottle of alcohol in his hand, clearly drunk and out of control. It wasn’t long until he caught the attention of the transit authority police. [3] I was on the bus along with a few Black Lives Movement activists when the police began questioning the frightened boy. We all gathered around to figure out what was going on before the cops took him into custody. It was hard on all of us to see a boy who instead of enjoying

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    Danita Mottie Final Exam Rock and roll is an ongoing process. Some might say it’s dead in it’s tracks but as i mention in later answers, rock and roll is a statement rather than a genre. The most effective process has been through would be it’s transformation. Between the mid-1960s and 1995 i believe rock and roll changed in more of a dramatic way. The Beatles were a big game changer in the 1960s as everyone likes to use the term revolutionary to describe what happened with music. The beatles were

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    R&B Vs Hip-Hop As we know Hip-Hop and R&B contain many similarities they also share many differences. I am an individual who sees the beauty and greatness in all music, but happen to be passionate about two genres, Hip-Hop and R&B when I listen two these genres I tend to notice the differences and the same that they have. The two music genres, Hip-Hop and R&B Shares many similarities and differences especially involving the lyric and the tone and/or melodies. R&B was created by African Americans

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    “Fuck Tha Police” by N.W.A. is a song that protesting about police brutality, racial profiling, and expressing violence against the police as it was done to them. The song begins with it opening up with the members of the group as Dr. Dre acts as the judge of the court, while the other members are attorneys for the prosecution, who are taking the stand to testify under Dr. Dre about the police actions that were committed against them, with showing examples about it in the song, plus talking about

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    Rap Music And Violence

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    A second reason how rap music is the source of violence is that is leads youth to join in gangs and when you’re in a gangs your causing violence by killing innocent people for money and creating shootings in communities. Rap music is the one type of music that talks about life being in a gang and when young people listen to the lyrics from their favorite rapper they might think it well be cool if they do the same thing or maybe how it would feel to being a gang earning money by themselves, getting

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    tried to resist arrest, it was going to go bad for you. During the early nineties, there was a rap group coming from Compton, California, N.W.A., that wrote about how hard their life was dealing with all the gang violence and the whole police thing. Some white people did not care for that type of music and when performing, cops tried to arrest the members of N.W.A. because they weren’t allowed to say the things they were rapping about. "So many people who didn't grow up black and poor couldn't understand

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    Thesis paper on rap music.

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    Rap music has become one of the most distinctive and controversial music genres of the past few decades. A major part of hip hop culture, rap, discusses the experiences and standards of living of people in different situations ranging from racial stereotyping to struggle for survival in poor, violent conditions. Rap music is a vocal protest for the people oppressed by these things. Most people know that rap is not only music to dance and party to, but a significant form of expression. It is a source

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    The popularity of this movie was built on the fact that the NWA is a well know hip hop group from 1980s and 1990s in the US. In addition, it presents the reality of musicians who are from poor neighborhoods and thrived in life. Therefore, many young people in similar condition would naturally be interested to know the journey of the group. Its popularity among young Americans who aspire to be successful in the future is caused by the message of encouragement that is present in it. The movie and

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    people and how change should be an option. In the world we live in today we have social issues that people have to face such as: police brutality, racial profiling, discrimination etc. Through Kendrick Lamar, Public Enemy, The Game, Bebe Winans, and N.W.A they will use their voice as a weapon for change among all people. Music with a message thrives in a live setting, for obvious reasons, and many politically conscious musicians aim to channel the heightened emotions Kendrick Lamar’s song “Alright”

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    Initially the discrimination towards slave was based on certain excerpts of the Bible and their interpretation, and the slave’s argument against discrimination too was based on the Bible. Once slave conversion was adopted by the Church of England in 1701, which emphasized on Ephesians 6:5: “slaves be obedient to your master” (Raboteau). After being exposed to this pathway, the master forced slavery on the black Americans, on the basis of the law and religion. On the other hand after being taught

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