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The music industry is always growing and trying to solicit new music to get higher ratings. “The music industry’s role in promoting negative music has been a hot topic for many years. What is too often under reported is how young people, including incarcerated youth, are directly impacted by the music.” That quote came from an article called ‘Seb is Hip Hop’. All a person has to do is turn on their radio to a mainstream station and they to can get taste of the carnage. Rap and hip-hop are two of

Devil on the Cross was written by Ngugi while he was imprisoned. He was held without trail by a government that tried to silence him. The out come was a book that was "One of the century's greatest novels" by the Tribune. In the following passages I plan to explain the meaning of four characters that are affected by capital class. The speaker of the passage "She sat down on a box…" is the gorgeous protagonist; Jacinta Wariinga. Jacinta Wariinga is a young beautiful black woman who easily stops

Jacques Baynes ENG 101 October 2, 2015 Brad Baumgartner Straight Out Of Compton “Any publicity is good publicity. “Aspiring rapper Eric “Eazy-E” Wright states to the rest of his fellow N.W.A brothers as they sit to discuss the police and F.B.I threats that they have been receiving in the mall. The movie Straight Out of Compton is based on the true story about six troubled some young black men residing in Compton, California who rise unexpectedly to fame, using their viciously honest rhymes

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

Beah’s use of imagery is extremely important for portraying Ishmael’s life as a child soldier. The description Beah uses makes the reader ultimately feel like they are there with him. The imagery shown also describes in great detail how Ishmael’s life went from innocent to an unimaginable life. Ishmael Beah writes a novel, A Long Way Gone, to show the violent images in his journey through Sierra Leone. The author uses imagery to show his innocence and pureness of being a child before his world changed

The poem As Traffic is a different kind of poem from the rests. It has words and sentence that you wouldn’t expect in other poems. For example “Bitch, Fuck, without Rubber” (Hayes, ll 14-15). These are just a few of the words the author says but why does he say them? What does he mean by them? What is he doing? These are just a few question that will be answered in the next couple of paragraphs. To start off focusing on what the author is saying. To the perspective that the author is saying a

We all have our opinions on if teens should have tattoos and piercings, some parents do not care but there is some that do. But if you think about it is how society looks at us, we all care about how people look at us we see people with tattoos we want that, all we care about attention. I feel like teens want to be someone they are not Just like when they listen to rap music they want to live the lifestyle they living. They think trying to be someone is being "cool" is trying to be like someone

There is no true success without struggle and that’s what many, once impoverished, artists, actors, and athletes can all relate too. Shawn Carter, also known as Jay-z went from growing up in Brooklyn's poverty stricken and drug infested Marcy Projects to becoming a big name within the Hip-Hop world. Jay-z didn’t have an easy childhood, he was dealing crack cocaine and interacting in gun violence just to get by. Living at the Marcy Projects made it difficult for youngsters to find good role models

Back in April, Phil Rudd plead guilty to threatening to kill, and possession of cannabis and methamphetamine in a New Zealand court. The former AC/DC drummer faced seven years in prison, but he was just sentenced to eight months of home detention. Rudd admitted that he threatened to kill a former employee, but he stated he was under the influence of drugs when he called and threatened the victim. At one point, Rudd was also charged with murder-for-hire, but the charge was dropped due to lack of evidence

Senegal rappers adopted the United States method of hip hop and recreated it in order to fit their culture. Using our first samples and making it suitable to be mixed in utilizing their “local musical elements” (Appert 4) is what separates them from us. Descendants of previous griot’s Senegal rappers are the current “historians” and “social commentators” of the country (Appert 10) that use their music to tell their stories to the people of Senegal just as their predecessors did years ago except