West Coast hip hop

This sparked the beef between east and west coast rappers that still lasts to this day. In August of 1994 he married Faith Evans. A month later in September he released his debut album, Ready to Die (UXL). This is the album that changed his life and left an everlasting impact on the world. With 2pac`s death occurring in the end of 1996 the beef between east and west coast rappers was at an all time high and Biggie was promoting his second album. He played

different places and different nationality. Hip hop is a cultural movement that emerged in the 1970s in the United States among Latin Americans, Jamaicans and African American that aimed to protest the social conflicts and violence suffered by the lower classes of urban society. Hip Hop is a genre of music that has significantly grown the last couple of decades. Since the music hip pop stems from the historical conditions by different nations, hip hop became a symbol for both characteristics and

Knights label released some of the most known and greatest records ever, during which there was a feud between the west coast and the east coast hip hop artists. After Tupac's album “All Eyez On Me”,was released by Death Row Records it was rumored that Tupac was leaving the label. But another theory placed the blame on Suge Knight as one responsible for Tupac's murder. Also Tupac describes

Hip hop has taken American’s pop culture by storm. At the forefront of the music industry, rap, a genre of hip-hop culture, has accumulated worldwide recognition for its lyrical ingenuity intertwined with its melodical backgrounds and creative beats. Its context is frequently lost between the profits generated and the negative lifestyles it glorifies; therefore many people look past its true significance within the African-American community. Given the historical significance of music in the African

In todays hip hop culture, artists often times portray through the lyrical content of their music different fallacies about themselves in order to develop their image or construct a brand for themselves. Although we as listeners under most circumstances are well aware that the songs are just made for the enjoyment of fans, perhaps the artists are becoming remotely too consumed with their lyrics and are beginning to believe that they are the realist in hip hop when they have barely scratched the surface

Arnob Basit Dissertation Has Hip-hop changed the youth in todays society? Throughout the past 30 years, there has been much speculation about how negative hip-hop music truly is, and how it actually affects the youth. The hip-hop music of recent years has been the foundation of many controversial issues and has been illustrated negatively by the media countless times. Issues such as gun and knife crime which has escalated heavily within younger age groups in the last 15 years, especially in the

described hip-hop as. “That feel of music with urgency, music that speaks to you. It’s blunt, it's raw, straight off the street from the beat, to the voice, to the words.” The use of language in hip-hop opposed to other musical genres is the essence of the material itself. Language is more important THAN any instrument or any sound effect, it sets the tone using many devices such as rhyming or metaphors in order to share a message. That being said, the way language is used in hip-hip isn't always

Go back to the era of the Founding Fathers with Lin-Manuel Miranda’s inventive Tony-winning hip-hop musical, Hamilton: An American Musical. Hamilton is a new take on the early history of our nation, the cast is diverse and the style itself full of hip-hop and rap themes. The musical illustrates how even during that time people weren't perfect; they made mistakes, stooped to schoolyard taunts, and settled disputes like children. It is amazing and quite well done, providing a new view of our founding

should be considered artistic expression, while the prosecutors will claim that the song is either a criminal threat or has too many similarities to the actual crime that it should be considered a confession. The primary basis for this debate is that hip-hop music is a misunderstood cultural practice because of the racial divide between the defendant and the criminal justice system. The precedent for using rap lyrics as evidence can be traced as far back as 1994 in California, when they were used to

MUSIC’S INFLUENCE ON VIOLENT BEHAVIOR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES: A REVIEW Kaland Farrow Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University  RAP MUSIC’S INFLUENCE ON VIOLENT BEHAVIOR IN AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES: A REVIEW Rap music is derived from Hip Hop culture which is deeply rooted in the African American community. The word, rap, has a Middle English origin. Originally, rap means to beat or strike. Beginning in the 1960s, African Americans gave the word another definition. In the black community