with them," or "All teenagers are the same?" Now teenagers are being stereotyped of being the same. Not good but bad. Add tattoos and hip hop into the picture, the situation becomes worse. Adults feel that there is no hope for this generation, my generation. It does not fail that tattoos and hip hop receive eye cringing responses. Little do they know that hip hop and tattoos aren't bad? They have meaning. Tattoos are marks on the skin made by permanent ink. Tattoos can be made to any design…
Hip Hop or also called Rap music, is a music genre formed in the United States in the 1970s that consists of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping; a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. Hip hop has changed in ways making people believe that it is dead and needs resurrection. From young groups like NWA and solo artists like Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G to Young Money and J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar. The evolution in hip hop such as topics, tones, and the desire for…
The history of Hip-Hop is the definition of a true grassroots movement. What once was a subculture born and raised within the five boroughs of New York City, Hip-Hop evolved into a largely successful and highly lucrative industry. In this assignment, I am going to examine, in detail, my contributions to the Hip-Hop Wiki timeline in Module 1. My entries included Kurtis Blow being the first rapper signed to a major record label, Afrika Bambaataa’s impact on different genres, Tupac Shakur’s…
Throughout hip hop music’s history, community members have debated over what constitutes “real hip hop”, yet recent trends have proven that hip hop as a genre is very open and fluid, where an artist with a unique musical flow can blow up overnight and influence the hip hop music of tomorrow. Of course, hip hop music did not spring out of the blue, but rather it was a newly packaged form of musical delivery that ascended from the music that preceded it. Thus, hip hop was not just a music style…
Music has a great influence in people. There's always that one song you hear and you just want to get up and dance. Well that song just influenced you into dancing. The same is happening in hip hop music today. Hip hop music is influencing teens into bad things and that's why I think Hip hip is ruining society. If you think about hip hop in the 90's and early 2000's it's wasn't as bas as now. Then they use to talk a out political right and world problems. Look at the song "The Chioce is Yours"…
When the word hip hop comes to mind what do you think of? Swearing, violence, drugs, money, gangs or how about the ones who created it, I know there is one thing that you would never think k of when discussing hip hop and that is Korean hip hop. Hip Hop is defined as a cultural movement that was created by the disadvantage African-American youth living in the south Bronx during the 1970s. Hip Hop or more commonly known as rapping is a complex culture filled with four important elements.…
West is into hip hop, not politics. Uniquely, the dramatic shift in hip hop will be beyond elucidated. Old school hip hop is extremely divergent to new hip hop. Old school hip hop originated in the late 60’s and progressed through the 90’s while new hip hop was produced after the 00’s. Hip hop appeared as a African American music style in the 70’s…
Cultural Destruction In Imani Perry's article, " The Venus Hip Hop and the Pink Ghetto Negotiating Spaces for Women", Perry criticizes the way black woman's are dressing in inappropriate attire, such as bathing suits or clothing that expose their body parts in music videos. She explains how hip hop culture is attacking black women identity and making them look like a commodity buying, and sell just for the pleasure of men. However black women body language on the videos are saying that they are…
The History of Rap/Hip-Hop Rapping, also known as rhyming, spitting, and emceeing it is still referred to as rap and hip-hop. But, it seems that nobody ever talks about the story of how rap and hip-hop started. The history of rap and hip-hop was not only the start of a genre but, something new and creative. Rap and Hip-hop has an interesting origin story, has influenced by different genres of music, and created a new movement of freedom of speech. Dating back to the 60s and 70s in the South…
Hip Hop in society is anything but a word. It is a living thing that grows, changes, and expresses itself as it goes through this. No matter how it may change though, it has always had one single meaning for its existence: peace; and with this meaning for existence, there must always be nine elements that are presence in order for Hip Hop to fulfill its purpose. The first element of Hip Hop, is dancing. Usually those who dance in Hip Hop are considered either the B-boy or the B-girl, and they…