we beat the streets essay

Hip-Hop as we have learned through class has been seen as controversial through its evolutionary history. According to Hip Hop Evolution, Hip-Hop began somewhere in in the 1970’s. Although during this time, when thinking of music, individuals usually think of disco, Hip Hop Evolution brings up the point that adults where the ones thriving in disco while the kids and young adults of the Bronx were looking for more (Wheeler et. al). It is important to understand how important young adults and children

“If Beale Street Could Talk” “ You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity’’-Bobby Seale .“If Beale Street Could Talk’’ was written by James Baldwin and published in June 17, 1974. The book is about a young couple having an unexpected child and later the young lady tries to prove her fiance innocent of the crime he’s being convicted of while expecting their first child. One of the themes of the story is that the only way to fight injustices is with love and

The purpose of this essay is to know what’s the difference of hip-hop in the 1990’s to 2000’s by looking at songs of those time. By seeing the difference in lyrics, tempo, beat. I will also watch a movie of N.W.A. that’s called Straight Outta Compton. I will also look at the technology that was use. The worth of doing this essay is to find out that music have improve throughout the year. The tempo of the songs The songs that I would be using is California love by Tupac ft Dr. Dre , Coolio

values and became more and more materialistic such as wanting latest technologies, televisions and kitchen appliances. The interesting thing is that to break the idea of this conformity, the beat generation rose and, then there were the beatniks. Beatnik had become the word to define the stereotype of the beat generation. People thought it to be the form of laziness in music, worn and tired form of the music generation. People have viewed them as slang-using, anti-materialistic, shallow, goateed,

Hip Hop originated in the USA in the early 1920s. The beats and dancing styles used define this genre of music. However, there is more to this type of music than the beat and dancing; other features include the message passed in the music and lifestyles of hip hop artists. Hip Hop music has since spread to other parts of the world and moreover, with its culture. We can see this culture in the film Saigon Electric, which is a Vietnamese hip-hop film. However, there is also a difference between the

Break-dancing along with the art of ‘graffiti’ meant that these neighborhoods had a different means of competition rather than getting into fights, gun battles and other forms of violence to decide which neighborhood was better. As the rhythmic beats

and the notorious, Gangsta-Funk. Gangsta-Funk or G-Funk for short, is a subgenre of Hip Hop invented in the early 90s on the mean streets of Los Angeles, California. The central pioneers of G-Funk can be argued, but to keep it short, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dogg deserve more than half of the credit for helping to develop this fable style of music. A product of the streets of Long Beach, California, Snoop Dogg was taken under Dr.Dre's wing and with his guidance dropped

I chose the Michel Saloff-Coste abstract art for my piece. The artwork made me think of a busy market type street thronging with people of all different backgrounds. My piece is meant to convey a person getting up in the morning and walking down a bright street like this where there is lots of music from different places, all mixing together. I imagine it sort of like an open-air market in a big city, with everyone playing their own music. I opened with two different brass track solos. I felt that

Dudes , Altered contemporary spiritual and physical spatial experiences in social movements under the influence of network 2.0 "...We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." —Tyler Durdena, a character from the 1999 David

becoming more violent now because they are using more than just their body parts to beat up people. These gangs are killing and raping people. It used to be about colors and different language but now it is about something different. It used to be about just being in the wrong neighborhood and getting jumped in. For some time now, one has to kill someone or rape someone to get in and stay in a gang. Along time ago, each street had a known gang but all a person had to worry