Rakim

Rakim Mayers was born October 3rd, 1988 in the city of Harlem, New York. Growing up without his father in most of his life Rakim moved from shelter to shelter with his mother and sisters. And on the ways he began selling marijuana and soon crack to help provide for his family after the lost of his brother. After losing his brother A.S.A.P Rocky began seeking inspiration for his rapping, which would soon be what helped him rise from the streets of Harlem. Having learned to rap from his older brother

My name is Rakim Washington. I was born in Georgetown Memorial Hospital but lived in Hemingway, South Carolina. I am currently a second semester sophomore, studying Social Science and a concentration in Human Service at Allen University. Background I lived the majority of my life in a small town called Hemingway known as “Donnelly Community.” Hemingway is a town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. My family is a group of church going individuals that stays in the church. I enrolled in Hemingway

equally for my second reason I picked Mr. Ervin, is because of the matters Mr. Ervin has attained over period of time. Being capable of working with some of the today's and past hip-hop hitters; such as Taylor the Creator, Kanye West, Q-Tip, Eric B. & Rakim, etc. is a huge asset to my research on trap culture.

In the past 2 years alone, more than 3 dozen criminal prosecutions have had rap lyrics be presented by the prosecutor as a vital piece of evidence in the case. [Manly] In many of these cases the prosecutor will use violent lyrics created by the defendant to prove that that person is inherently dangerous and in other cases, will use the lyrics as a direct confession to having committed the crime in question. If you read into these cases you will notice a common theme between them; the defense will

Rap: the Flow of a Disputed Artform Often in history, and especially in the timeline of musical trends, the introduction of new ideas is almost always met with steep judgement and general distaste. "It is not music at all. It 's merely an irritation of the nerves of hearing, a sensual teasing of the strings of physical passion." Coarse opinions, such as Princeton University Professor Henry van Dyke’s, were common when jazz music initially received a reputation as being immoral with many members of

Over the past few years, hip-hop culture and rap music has stirred up controversy throughout America and it’s media. Whether it is Dr. Dre’s 1992 hit single “A Nigga Witta Gun” or Bobby Shmurda’s 2014 hit single “Hot Nigga” that boasts about shooting other African-Americans, it seems that the media has denounced the hip-hop culture and criticized them for the continuous increase on inner-city youth violence. If people would just listen closer to hip-hop’s message instead of assuming it has negative

In our days many people tend to listen to music almost anywhere they go. But unfortunately teenagers are the ones that get influenced by music the most, as they are less developed than the adults. In today’s days many singers and rappers that sing and rap about the drugs and violence. And for some reason that’s what teenagers prefer. The example of this singers would be O.T Genasis, Wiz Khalifa and Chief Keef. All these singers and rappers promote the violence and drug abuse in our society. In result

Throughout history, music has been used to express the feelings of people or groups whom may have no other outlet to express themselves. The best example of this occurrence would be the lower class of America’s use of rap music. Rap music started out as a fun variation of disco with the purpose to make people dance and enjoy themselves, but it later transformed into one of the best outlets to express the struggles of poverty in the United States. The genre gained popularity when the song “Rapper

Male vs. Female rapper through their music Rap music is really popular to us, young people, and sometimes adults, too. In my opinion, I think that rap is a way to allow all of the rappers to express themselves, their voices, their experience, and their feeling from their life. And in some other people opinion, they also describe rap music as the story or the voice of the streets. According to a music articles “The birth of Rap: A Look Back” from NPR.org website, rap music was born and began to develop

The exile of Iggy Azalea: Hip Hop's Dirty Artist In the first chapter of her book Hip Hop and Religion, Monica Miller compares hip hop to "dirt" to underscore societal opposition to this cultural art form (Miller 26). She claims that since those in power believe hip hop is disorderly, hip hop is often perceived as a cause of social unrest instead of a criticism of societal faults (Miller 27). Throughout this discussion of hip hop as a "matter out of place", Miller describes that the distinction