Changes in rap music over the years

Hip Hop music is one of the most listened to genres of today. It’s been around for many years, slowly evolving over time. When most hear the words Hip Hop, they automatically assume plain rap music. Just like any other genre of music, Hip Hop can be split up into many different sub genre for example, Trap music, Gangsta rap and lastly Old School Hip Hop. Starting from the oldest sub genre, Old School Hip Hop is the rap sound you hear before the 2000 era. Music groups like A Tribe Called Quest, SugarHill Gang or Run DMC all were the key creators of the unique sounds of Old School Hip Hop. Old School Hip Hop is seen as the “roots” of Hip Hop music. It was more simpler rapping styles but ended around 1984 as the rapping techniques began to change.…

Rap and hip hop have surfaced everywhere in the United States since the early 1980’s and have not stopped since then. Rap was known as griots a thousand years ago when village story tellers in Africa played instruments while they told stories of their families and other events that happened. The griot tradition was brought over to America when Africans were captured against their will and forced into slavery. A way to cope with heartbreak and pain, Africans sang while working in the fields to…

suffer from all different types of problems and their coping mechanisms all differ. One thing people fail to realize is the effect that the arts can have on people. The “arts”, whether they’re music, literature or painting, all serve as escapes for individuals going through life’s constant problems. Few know exactly what the phenomenon is but, the arts have an odd way of not only linking people together in their pain or suffering, but also helping them become in tune with their surroundings. The…

of gangsta rap has proven to be extremely negative on the youth that have come in contact with it. The second point of view on this styling of music is that of a portrayal of inner city life (Blanchard). Throughout the years of the commercial music industry there have been multiple kinds of music that served to express the point of view of a demographic. Of all the different genres of music gangsta rap is one of the most violent and misogynist form produced. The cruel and homophobic nature of…

that's in the future from me is wondering how the rap music have been demolished, and why yall cant listen to it no more. Or how it just changed. I want to tell yall why………… Rap music has been existing beyond even my time. Most of rap music either hip hop, classical, but mostly what yall heard of DRILL. Drill music have been a big treat to our society government. Just like the video game GTA is a influential game to our children to where our children become destructive, dangerous, and a menace…

leave me, won’t forsake me. If you don’t help me, I won’t make it.” Could you name any of these song lyrics? Think about the ones you could and could not. These are lyrics of traditional and modern day R&B and gospel songs. The comparison between these lyrics show the way rap music has changed throughout time. Rap music is defined as hard rhymes with messages of life and the streets. Corresponding, gospel music is classified as uplifting and enriching music. Even though some people believe rap…

the past 30 years or so, hip hop has tried politics and it has tried gansterism. But in the end it settled for capitalism, which energized it and brought it to a position of global dominance (Steve Yates Rap lyrics encourage positive capitalist views). The topic of Rap and its effects has a deep history to consider, and there will always be both supporters and critics who continue to debate this topic. There is data that proves both sides right and wrong. Some people think it promotes sexism or…

areas, and rap music has been severely criticized for various reasons. These elements were never analyzed in an oppositional manner until recently, however. Hip-hop culture represented the claiming of urban communities by the residents. Writers decorated the empty walls of their communities in an attempt to personalize their surroundings. They also painted trains, which traveled to other communities, and in this sense they developed a living and moving art form. Break dancing claimed space…

feet, their offspring,cascading through his living living room,cascading through his life,drowning him with the sound of his hypocrisy. 2)About the hip hop Mcbride said music seemingly without melody, sensibility,instruments,verse,or harmony,music with no beginning,end, or ,middle,music that doesn’t even seem to be music. 3)James McBride tells us his views on Hip Hop Rap and shows us how difficult it was for him to come to terms with this new music. James grew up in the Bronx, which…

reflects culture as well as express social, political and economic situations in many peoples lives, especially the youth. Music started off with drumming. Through drumming, communities were able to communicate, and the use of drums was also utilized in ceremonies and rituals in African American lives. Drumming was the base of African music in the Diaspora. After drumming, many other music styles started developing throughout Africa and then expanding around the world. Hip Hop is a music style…