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The Influence of Rap Music     “Rap's common designation as "CNN for black people" may result from the descendance of rappers from griots, respected African oral historians and praise-singers (Blanchard).” Since then it has evolved into something more violent and widely listened to among all races. Such vulgar actions and explicit lyrics are displayed in everyday modern rap. While critics believe that rap is a way of expression and doing so with excessive power, it can be done without violence. Due

I caused myself to miss out on a possible great experience with music. Since the start of 2016, a new rap era called “Mumble Rap” caused a spur of people to spew their dislike of rappers who predominately used adlibs in their songs along with extremely low rapping ability. Well known mumble rappers are: Lil Yachty, Lil Uzi Vert, 21 Savage, Famous Dex, Kodak Black, and Desiigner. I joined this wave of not liking mumble rap to make myself seem better and more knowledgeable to this who listen to mumble

Eminem, “My Name Is” Marshall Mathers, better known as Eminem, is recognized for his work as a rap artist who is able to connect with his audience through humor and rhythmically dicey lyrics. Eminem’s “My Name Is” music video is able signify whiteness and rearticulate race with the use intertextual editing techniques that parody common representations of whiteness. Eminem is using his “My Name Is” video as an approach to solidify his style of rapping and thus create new political and cultural

Women have consistently been perceived as second-class citizens. Even now, in times when a social conscience is present in most individuals, in an era where an atmosphere of gender equality 'supposedly' exists, it is blatantly apparent that the objectification and marginalization of women is still a major social issue. In reality, progression in terms of reducing female exploitation has been stagnant at best. Not only is the degradation of women a major problem that to date has not been eradicated

Poetic Justice What kind of music inspires you? When asked this question most people’s first response would not be Rap or Hip-Hop. Listening to today’s rap music you hear the same rhythmic beat sampled and re-sampled to words that promote a “look at what I have theme”. But in 2013 an artist scaled the charts with a style and twist to Hip-Hop that appears to transcend genres. The commercial success of the album The Heist by Ben Haggerty (Macklemore), produced by Ryan Lewis, has transformed society’s

Hip hop, to me, is the culture I grew up in by default. Starting at an early age, everything around me was hip hop, from the way my parents dressed (hightop fades and door knocker hoop earrings) to what they played on the radio. As I got older I didn’t return to hip hop until much later, and didn’t take it seriously as something I was interested in exploring until I was in high school. Now, hip hop is the genre I witness changing over and over, and I want to know where it is going. I think young

Dieuson Octave was born and raised in Pompano Beach in Broward County, Florida. Better known as his rapper name Kodak Black he has been in and out of jail. I consider him as a hero to his county because in big cities like where he is from not everyone makes it, it is either you make it by making music or playing sports. Kodak was making money by "trapping" this means selling drugs, you can't make it anywhere just by selling drugs so he started to write lyrics. He has made it in life by selling

The history of graffiti art movement.This art movement started in 1980 in the city of New York City.This movement gained enormous success in New York City.In recent years this art movement has evolved alongside hip-hop music,b-boy and other other elements of music.Also gang use their own form of graffiti to make their territory.This form of art range from simple written words to masterpiece wall paintings. One influential artist is Jean-Michel Basquiat.Basquiat was born to a Haitian father and Puerto

“Ab Soul, abstract, a**hole, give the people what they need” and that is exactly what he did.AB Soul released Control System in 2012 opening doors for a whole new perspective of the world. He explored the realms of crossing boundaries and exposing the public. He challenges social norms and forces his listeners to see the reality of the world we live. Soul has a very peculiar way of getting his ideas out to the public. The is a genius when it comes to being a lyricist. The man knows how to keep

1 What does it mean to say that when a rapper goes into the studio they have “two people in their head”? Him, in the terms of who he really is. And the thug that he feels he needs to portray himself as. 2 According to the filmmaker, what did most of the young, aspiring rap artists rap about at the BET festival? Violence, gangs, and how they portray themselves as an alpha. 3 How have masculinity and violence been connected throughout history? The American mindset has a man portrayed as violent to