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    1970’s. Hip Hop music is a form of expression, in which rappers talk about various topics including life struggles, and events that take place in society and etc. Other forms of artistic expression eventually evolved from Hip Hop like Rapping and Graffiti. Both Rapping and Graffiti are ways of expressing oneself and these mode of expressions have been misrepresented as being a form of violence and vandalism. Hip Hop was a cultural movement that originated in The South Bronx in New York City in the

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    RAPPING ABOUT RAP Essay

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         Rap music is on its way to becoming one of the most popular forms of music on the market today. Although rap has only been popular for the last 15 years, it can be traced back to the days of slavery and even further to the tribes of Africa. Rap is used now as it was used for the past few centuries, as a form of communication. This music has been a way for the young African-American's to speak out about their lives and the struggles they go through. Like rock-n-roll and

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    Freestyle rapping is still one of the most popular forms of rapping today. Whether it be for fun or in a competition environment knowing how to rap freestyle can be a very cool and entertaining skill to have. If you are realities article you are ready to learn this skill and are ready to dominate the next battle with your friends or win the next freestyle competition that you participate in. In this article I am going to give you a quick lesson on how to rap freestyle. I am going to keep things

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    Taylor Swift Rapping

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    Taylor Swift is finally seen rapping in a new Apple ad, and enjoying it to the extent that she falls down on the treadmill when the next line reads, "Distractingly good. All the music you want," and she still keeps rapping after falling flat on the floor in the funny commercial. The pop star wears her perfect make-up and hair for the ad, as she sings to Future's "Jumpman." Then as she gets rapping, she gets distracted and whooo dangerously falls on the moving treadmill which throws her off to the

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    In this essay, I am going to discuss the importance of the “Hydesville Rappings”. I will be talking about the Fox sister’s and the family and how they discovered communication with the spirit world. How they could communicate in simple understood code. How they discovered certain people were mediums. Also what findings were established as a result of the first Hydesville rappings. Hydesville rappings have allowed us to discover the truth and gaining the knowledge of life after death. This has

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    Rapping Tin Foil

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    To begin, did you know tin foil can float with pennies? Rapping tin foil like a boat and putting pennies in the boat. I can see how strong tin foil is and what brand is the best. Buoyancy the ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid. Buoyancy the ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid. I will tell you about an upward force of the fluid which resists the weight of immersed objects. The density of the atmosphere depends on the altitude. Can you

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    On the 31st March 1848 the first communication, connecting with spirit, involving the Fox sister’s known as the “Hydesville Rappings”. How a code was devised to communicate with spirit, a cynical neighbour curious joined in. This was an unlikely place for connecting the two worlds. At that point, there were many obstacles the Fox sister faced during their lifetime, however, allowing us to see the truth, furthermore gain the knowledge of life after death. Worldwide knowledge of this truth and

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    Rapping My History Class

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    My greatest challenge in semester 1 is the rap I had to do for my history class and it was hard because I had to make a rap about a certain topic in history. What made it a lot harder for me was that I told my whole group to meet at the library so we can finish the rap but none of them would show up on any of the days I told them to come, so I pretty much had to do the whole project by myself. But what got me mad the most of all was the fact that they still got their points when they pretty much

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    wonderful rappers made up this form of music called “rap” due to their struggles and expressing of their feeling and emotions through rapping and making it into music . “There were kids in japan that don’t understand a word in english, but can still recite a Jay-Z album from beginning to end”(Baker 95). The music they were making was going all around world, rapping about the pain and the cruel things they had to face in society and in the world. “In the early 1990’s a new form of hip-hop made its

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    Hip-hop Culture Then Vs. Now Hip-hop is an underground urban movement which emerged in the South Bronx, NY during the early 1970s. Hip-hop is composed of four basic elements; DJ-ing, emceeing (rapping), graffiti and style, and break dancing. These elements are how most people recognize hip-hop culture. Many other people think of hip-hop as just a music genre, but it is more than just a music genre. It is cultivating way of living, and several people fail to understand its true meaning

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    Essay about Hip-Hop

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    Music, Dancing, Rapping? Well, it's all of that and more hip-hop is a culture. According to Webster's dictionary, culture is defined as "the concepts, habits, skills, arts, instruments, institutions, etc. of a given people in a given period; civilization." One artist defined hip-hop as "a set of expressions in vocalization, instrumentation, dancing and the visual arts." More specifically, hip hop is a combination of graffiti, breakdancing, djing and mcing (also known as rapping), that creates a

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    High School, where he graduated and made the tough decision to not continue on to college. Pitbull persued his rapping dreams until he was noticed by a famous rapper and from there his career really began. Pitbull is most prominent for his rapping, but he has also played parts in many movies and has developed his own school. Rapping was a key component as Pitbull

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    The History Of Hip Hop

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    The history of Hip Hop as music and as a culture formed during the 1970s in the Bronx, NY, and it gain so much positive feedback that local DJs began using the music for block parties among the African-American youth in the Bronx. Mixing music styles of funk, jazz, rhythm & blues. Jamaican immigrants bought this foreign music style to New York and soon after became a phenomenon. Dj Kool Herc, who is generally considered the father of hip hop, was recognized for being one of the very first Hip Hop

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    Introduction Hip-Hop culture is constructed by different elements including Mcing (Rapping), Djing, Breakdancing, Beatboxing and Graffiti. (George, 2006) Hip-hop culture does not only reflect the spirit of African American youth and working class but also severed as a cultural form to express their views on politics and the society. It is believed that Hip-hop is an evolving spirit that connects the past and the presents to the urban youth. It is not only a genre of music, but also a combination

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    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 A.S.A.P thought it only fair to continue that dream even after losing his brother. A.S.A.P adopted the french braids hairdo from his older brother, and after moving to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania he began his rapping at age 8. Years later Rocky joined

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    was the only person outside of his small group of try hard rappers that thought he was good and had potential. This impacts the audience because it shows how some people can see potential in anyone because marshal was so poor that no one took his rapping seriously. Another example of when the writer tried to reach to the audience through his life story is when marshal says to his little sister, lily, to go inside their house and lock the door as a black SUV gets closer lily obeys marshal and heads

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    This was very similar to today’s emceeing techniques of getting the crowd involved. Not only did the singing become a way to cope with the hardships but they also used a type of “rapping” to communicate to each other while their owner or master was present. The slaves had to learn to speak in a broken very fast paced way of speaking and they taught themselves how to play on words and communicate to each other making sure they were

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    describe him, I would say that he's the best big brother ever. He shows me to never give up, by he started rapping as a hobby, now he performs in front of many people. He performs with two friends they all would have never guessed that they would ever meet Eminem's Dj At a Performance. He works hard writing lyrics, because that allows him to perform, to get a paycheck. Kid Blue started rapping as a fun hobby. He first started making beats and lyrics on the computer then he recorded them.

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    Hip Hop music is more than just a couple of words that rhyme together; it's a culture, its spiritual movement that has helped people in various ways. Where it originated from is particularly among the African-American youth in Bronx, New York. DJ's in Bronx would isolate percussive breaks in popular songs and those genres of music were typically funk, disco, and soul records. Since those genres were relatively short, DJ's would use turn tables to extend and mix the beats which eventually formed

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    Hip Hop History

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    exclusively to hip hop music (also called "rap"),[6] Hip Hop is characterized by nine distinct elements or expressive realms, of which Hip Hop music is only four elements (rapping, djaying, beatboxing and breaking). Afrika Bambaataa of the Hip Hop collective Zulu Nation outlined the pillars of Hip Hip culture, coining the terms: "rapping" (also called MCing or emceeing), a rhythmic vocal rhyming style (orality); DJing (and turntablism), which is making music with record players and DJ mixers (aural/sound

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