Essays on Rap Music

The popular perception that rap music is an expression of the African Americans’ struggle for social equality seems to have some basis. This is especially true when considering that rap music originates, or at least become popularized, by Black artists who have expressed their racial sentiments through songs that have become expressions of their racial opinions, such as those concerning bigotry. Such is the case in the popularity of Tupac Shakur and the rap group, Public Enemy, specifically on how the Black Americans are able to relate to their songs’ themes on racial bias suffered by Blacks under a ...

PART 1 – IDENTIFICATIONS (25 pts)

Define and explain in 2-4 sentences the importance for hip-hop culture of FIVE of the following identifications: Hip-hop music has its origins in the 1970s from South Bronx. Over the years, it has grown into rap music and even further to hip hop culture. Hip hop culture all over the world has incorporated various aspects in the society like technology, fashion, racism, art, and urban life among others. Multiple identifications in hip hop play a vital role in its culture. For example, sampling is the use of a song portion in another song either as a sound recording or ...

29.07.2016

1) 1. French Hip-Hop genre is famous for several names of people, who have made a large contribution to the development of hip-hop culture in France: Dee Nasty, Phil Barney, Bernard Zekri, Jean Karaks, and Sidney. Dee Nasty is a DJ Radio Nova’s producer and a pioneer of Hip-Hop genre in France. He has produced the first Hip Hop record in France in 1980s and soon became world-known. He took part in many DMC World DJ Championships. Dee Nasty is also known for the distribution and development of graffiti, break dance, and funk music in French culture. ...

The musical Hamilton has been critically acclaimed by critics and fans alike. The work tells the story of Alexander Hamilton, one of the most important people in the early history of the United States. However, what makes this musical truly unique is Lin-Manuel Miranda, the star, writer, and composer incorporates modern hip-hop music style into the musical genre, something that had not been done as successfully. Rather than just classical musical numbers or dialogue, this production uses rap and lyrical composition very effectively. Hamilton employs hip-hop music throughout because it is able to bring in groups that do not ...

American hip-hop music has achieved its global popularity over decades. It gives young people a lot of acoustic and visual pleasure as a music genre, but it also shows public issues, like poverty, race, human equality, etc. Young people are often attracted to this kind of music because those lyrics reflect their own living situations and mental states. Because of its provocative nature, the influence of American hip-hop music can be a double-edged sword: On the one hand, it can encourage people to participate in social movements; On the other hand, it can be used as a propaganda that ...

Women have been in the music industry for decades as singers. When the rap era became popular it was not long before women were joining in on the rap style. These women were mostly of African American race and opened up a new music genre for the listeners across the globe. A female rap duo had made a huge hit in the late 1980’s. The two women called themselves Salt-N-Pepa. The had hit after hit on the billboard charts and rapped about songs that may have been controversially explicit in that era of music. They two women had ...

The movie Straight Outta Compton was released in 2015. The movie is based on the life and struggles of hip-hop and rap music in the town of Compton. The movies portrayed how the music industry changed because of the rappers who made the music a sensation. The stories the rappers such as Dr. Dre and Eazy-E had created were lyrics of truth. The controversies that were brought forth regarding the lyrics that were being recorded caused an outrage in society. The trials and tribulations that had to be overcome for these rising stars to beat all odds and finish ...

Introduction

Despite the talk about ‘globalization’ that has increasingly been picking up momentum since the latter parts of the last century, there are significant differences between different societies throughout the world (O'Connor, 2004). Social class, cultural identity, religious beliefs, childbearing, and parenting, just to name but a few work differently in different parts of the world (Hiebert, 2002). From the Natives in North America, the Taiwanese in the Far South East Asia, Latinos in the Caribbean, and the Ashanti and the Zulu in Africa, to the Aboriginals in New Zealand and Australia, people’s ways of life are just so ...

During many years, music has changed societies around the world. Each era experiences a pattern of music that incredibly motivates that particular period on what to wear, the proper behavior, and what to say. Music is something that everybody can associate with and as it keeps on developing, so will society. There is one kind that has ceaselessly mixed up discussion and started numerous verbal confrontations with respect to the bearing it is taking its audience members. One and only type has had the initiative to take a stand in opposition to the administration all the time. One and ...

Hip-hop music also known as rap music has been around since the 1970’s. The United States had heard the music which focused on rhyming while speaking the words. This type of music generally consisted of dance beat music and words of lifestyle. This new style of music had formed its own culture and category in the music industry. Many rappers and hip-hop artists were from an African American heritage. There were several techniques that were born because of the era of hip-hop. The music had created DJ’s scratching records to make different sounds while the artists performed ...

In an article about hip hop music and its intersection with jazz, Jared Pauley writes that both genres have often flirted with each other. Over the years, hip hop artists have utilized the flavor of jazz music through sampling. In the 1980s to the mid-1990s, hip hop acts "took jazz samples to the top of the charts while others worked directly with respected jazz musicians. With the new millennium, this trend continued" (1). One artist that has continued the trend is Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick Lamar is an emcee that has been on the scene for a number of years, ...

Music has a key role in speech and communication since it may be used as a way to pass information to a group of people that may not be understood by some others. Rap is one of the most used genres in giving information to a set of people mostly the teenagers. The young generation is a group that is mostly attracted to rap music; hence, the artists use it to pass information to the teens that the older people may not fully understand. The songs influence the way the teens communicate because they bring new vocabularies and understanding. ...

Introduction

The history of Islam and Christianity in the context of the western people is based how the West collaborated with the Islamic countries in the Middle East or the conflict that arises between the West and the Western people. During these terrorist attacks, most people and most fingers are often pointed towards the Muslim individuals with a claim that they orchestrate the terrorist attacks on the western land. Such kind of conclusions do not just arise from nowhere but are rather a series of occurrences which cause such kind of utterances from the western people. For instance, when nineteen ...

Speech on Childhood Dreams

Speech on Childhood Dreams

Assignment

I would rap, would tap! I would cook, it would be a hook!

Central Idea: As I was growing up, I wanted to a rapper as I was mad about music and songs; I imagined myself to be this famous rap artist who is lauded all over the world. I also wanted to be a chef. I love food and I would imagine cooking great cuisines and being famous for that.

Introduction

Attention Getter: Eminem and Akon were everywhere in the house as their recordings were my most important thing in life apart from tasty food! ...

Music has become the most prominent form of communication throughout history. It can be used to express emotions, change a person’s attitude, and even offer clarity on difficult situations. Many musicians use this knowledge to help promote their agenda, whether it is a political movement or a change that society needs to make. In the past, music was used to test the restraints that society had on its citizens. Music was breaking out of its conformed mold and transforming itself as well as the people who listened to it. Many people readily accepted this newfound change that was ...

Each and every period of the history has its own significant features that may define even the whole era. For example, the Medieval Ages are significant in terms of their religious strictness of rules and norms of behavior. Also, it is well-known for the wars and murders, committed on the religious ground. The 20ies of the XX century are famous for their absolutely different from the previous time period fashion, for their freedom and of course, for the mafia. As we may notice, it does not matter whether it is the era, the century, the decade or even one ...

Hip-Hop is considered to be of the largest and the most popular cultures in the whole world. It took its roots in the 70s and had undergone a long way before gaining its popularity and becoming one of the most influential cultures. Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash are known as the founding fathers of hip-hop music. Their talent and dedication to what they were doing definitely brought hip-hop on a new level. All in all, it is essential to learn their history in order to understand the process of the development of hip-hop culture. Surprisingly, but it ...

It is with no doubt that most white people enjoy black culture. They enjoy Hip Hop, which is predominantly an African-American genre. They also enjoy African-American cuisine and fashion. The nagging question is, do white people love the African-American population? If they do love them, why not partake in advocating against vices that are committed towards the African American population? Why wouldn’t they unite with the African-American population and chant “Black Lives Matter” This essay, therefore, sets out to answer the question “What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we love black ...

The essay is about hip hop music and its impact on society is very interesting in terms of its insights. The essay clearly documents the effects of hip home musing especially on the young generation from a seemingly unbiased point of view. The writer of the essay also seems to be very knowledgeable as far as hip hop music is concerned. This can be deduced from the fact that the writer can give a statement about the effects of hip hop music especially on the young listeners of this genre of music and proceed to give examples of not only songs ...

Culture has Influenced the World

How African American Culture has Influence the World Introduction It started as a cultural shock wave during the 1970s after its emergence in the African-American communities in the Bronx, a poverty stricken area in New York during that time. While hip hop culture is now an international phenomenon, it was once a small subculture of the African Americans that manifested a clearer picture of the life conditions, feelings and aspirations of the Black Americans. Most people attributed hip hop to rapping, a genre of music that was once unique to the black American youths, however, rap is only a part of the hip ...

Question #1

The early slaves that came into the United States experienced several difficulties at first. They did not have a common language thus making communication among themselves and with their masters very difficult. However with time they came up with ways to communicate and key among them was the ability to sing. When they came to the US as slaves, they brought African melodies, rhythms and instrumental techniques which they would use to compose different songs. Since they lived with the White people, they would get exposed to White people music which they fused with their own melodies to come up ...

Introduction

Women have been exploited through the Hip-hop culture by men artists who ascribe them as sexual objects. According to Joan Morgan, and Ayanna's writings about women exploitation, it is evident that a large percent of women have engaged in Hip-hop music for fame and fortune. Hip-hop culture and ideas emerged from African-American and Latino-American young people who exhibited misogynistic traits against women. The misogyny aspect of Hip-hop culture is ascribed to discrimination practices against women, self-worth, and peer relations. The Hip-hop culture has embraced these misogynistic and exploitative practices against women. On the contrary, some women rappers have come out ...

In her work entitled “Race/Gender/Media Considering Diversity across Audiences, Content, and Producers” Rebecca Lind guides a discussion regarding how influential media communications can be, fostering both positive images and powerfully damaging ones as well. While it is true that music videos may represent a harmless form of entertainment for people, an analysis examining the ways in which gender and sexuality issues impact upon perceptions is forthcoming in this paper. How are gender and sexuality representations depicted in various types of television programming, particularly in music videos? The research herein places the exploration to range from expressing how body images are covered ...

Ever since the emergence of human civilization, music has been an excellent form of entertainment for people worldwide. But aside from serving as a medium for people’s leisure, music has also served as the platform for various campaigns and advocacies by many people who desire for a significant change in the society. One of such people is the famous 90s rapper, Tupac Shakur. Tupac Shakur is amongst the thousands, maybe even millions, of bright minds who used their talents in music and exploited the music arena to send a clear message to a vast audience in hope for a change—in his case, a ...

For many years, critics of gangsta hip hop have argued that this genre of music has created a negative cultural movement. Among the areas where hip-hop has influenced negative culture is on sexuality. Sexuality especially among the African American youth has been negatively influenced by hip-hop music. It is unfortunate that African American, who are dominant in this genre, are the worst affected by this culture. It is important to note that most African American people in America are living under poor economic conditions. In addition, most of them face numerous challenges in their daily life. Some of the worst ...

Instruction Name –

Hip-hop music is a genre of music that comprises of schematic rhythmic music and generally involves rapping, and is characterized by four fundamental stylistic elements; breakdancing, DJing, MCing, and graffiti. Besides these four primary elements, other elements such as sampling and beatboxing are also used in hip-hop music. Hip-Hop music evolved as a component of the hip-hop culture during the 1970s. The history of the evolution and reinvention of hip-hop music is interesting. Hip-hop music traces its roots to African-American music, and finally to African music. The griots belonging to West Africa are a faction people that specialize as storytellers, musicians, ...

A remix refers to a derivative work made by combining or modifying existing media. Adam Smith in his article Emergent Remix Culture in an Anonymous Collaborative Art System describes remix as a product of process of taking elements from existing artifacts and changing or recombining these elements to create something new. In the modern society, the remixing concept is prevalent touching on the art and technology fields. Additionally, there are various examples of remixing namely folklore, sampling, graffiti, Wikipedia and film remixing. The internet has been highly effective platform for the “remixing process”-remixes of photos, songs and videos are easily ...

Music Theory

November 3rd, 2014 Cash Rules Everything Around Me I never listen to rap music. I have only heard, in passing, rap music that is mainstream and on the radio. From that little exposure, I have developed the opinion that it is often too centered on materialism. For the purpose of this assignment, I researched the best rap songs of all time. I found “C.R.E.A.M.” by Wu Tang Clan on many of those lists. While I did not enjoy the melody as much as I had hoped, the lyrics captivated me—ensuring me that Wu Tang Clan ...

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Introduction

The film The Great Gatsby is based on the fictional novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, who was one of the major writers of “The Jazz Age” and the roaring twenties. It is set in the 1920’s, a time of economic success and new cultural styles. The novel is considered one of the greatest American novels ever written and has been made into a movie four times. The most recent version, made in 2011, was shot in 3D, with a running time of 143 minutes.

Summary

The main character is Jay Gatsby, a mysterious and wealthy man who lives in a Mansion. He ...

Executive Summary

Mission Statement Genesis Entertainment is a modern entertainment business that focuses on exceptional rap music, merchandise, and entertainment normally overshadowed by the mainstream ideologies. The entertainment business aims to bring music joy to the individuals of all the ages, provide services, which exceeds customers’ expectations, and quality products at pocket friendly prices. What’s more, Genesis Entertainment aims to offer fair compensation to its members of staff and a fair return to the owner.

Goals

- Create a steady revenue stream from sales of the new album, ‘Genesis’, merchandising, digital sales, and live performances. - Establish and grow the corporation into a ...

The pop culture is what has been introduced by music lifestyles into the world. Pop culture influences the way we talk the way we dress and act among other activities. Its influence is undeniable as such is evident in our daily lives amongst not just rappers but also their audiences. Most rap music contains a lot of ambition to be great and wealthy at a point in a person’s life, even to be extravagant. This has influenced the society significantly where more young people are interested in becoming successful without working hard. This has lead to market crowding where there are ...

Jenny Walters

The best approach to solve the problem of sexualization of girls is through the use of Media Education and Show Talks (MEST) plan. This is attained by the advocacy of developing career oriented girls and women in the society. There are a number of ways this can be achieved but the most compelling and appropriate method that can be applied and produce the desired results is the use of successful women in the business and the corporate world as icons and references. There is a famous saying in the bible that states that iron sharpens iron. This same principle seems to ...

Art and culture for a long time over the years has been expressed through forms such as music, lifestyles, beliefs, dressing among many other things that determine our day to day lives. Art and entertainment since time in memorial has formed part of our culture that has cut across many generations of different people from different places in the place world. With the increased globalization and innovations in the contemporary world, it has resulted to new forms of art and entertainment that have had a great influence and impact on a bigger number of the people, both old and young not only ...

Bikinis, full lips, thin waists, gyrations – the black woman in a rap video is usually one of many, surrounding the male rapper in question with a stable of women he implicitly has sexual command over. This is the image that is often found in most rap videos, at least as far as women are concerned. Due to the exclusive and alienating nature of a substantial portion of these images, representation has turned into misrepresentation, as many people use these portrayals to characterize the entirety of African-American femaleness in an incorrect and unflattering way. Joan Morgan, in her essay “from Fly-Girls to Bitches ...

Identity is defined as the individuality or personality of an individual, it is who and what a person perceives themselves to be. Its construction occurs throughout life but mainly in the formative years of childhood and adolescence and it is influenced mainly by environmental factors. Identities are not static; they are dynamic which means that they change over time. Today many young people consider musicians to be their role models and thus build their identity around them. A case in point is the effect of hip-hop music on black youth. Hip-hop music emerged in the 1970’s among black ...

1. Give five parts of an anthropological definition of culture. Describe each part in two sentences. Beliefs-These are faiths about some societal aspects that are shaped by culture. Beliefs are strong convictions about someone, object or idea.

Practices-Practices are activities regularly performed by a given group of people. They may be social, political or economic. Ideas-These are notions and ideologies upheld by a certain group of people. Again, these ideas are shaped and molded by culture. Technology-This is the application of knowledge for practical reasons in various industries. Technology is the practical expression of skills of a people. 2. ...

How today’s American Rap Music Negatively Influences

Teenagers by Promoting Misogyny Discrimination against Women Today’s North American Rap Music expresses many things that happen in our society. More often, rap music includes tough lyrics that portray social realities that promote awareness towards its audiences. However, some of the famous rap compositions not only inspire its listeners, but it also promotes misogyny in terms of expressing hatred towards women due to its explicit lyrics. Specifically, misogynic messages were being transformed into a composition and unfortunately, being patronized by many teenagers nowadays. Women are being exploited through rap music, which teenagers adapt eventually. Unfortunately this kind ...

Introduction

While they claim that a picture is worth a thousand words, it may portray different meanings depending on culture. Music is extraordinary; it is a universal language that is poses minimal cases of discrimination. Music is a language that conveys emotion across all cultures. Regardless of the previous exposure or culture, individuals can watch or listen to a song and detect whether a song contains happiness, fear and sadness. The lyrics, the dance, melody and tone bring people to unity. For this, we can refer to the Shakira’s Waka Waka song in 2010. The song was a hit all over the world despite being sung ...

In his memoir A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah recounts his time as a child soldier in the government army of Sierra Leone, when he was just thirteen years old. Now living in the United States, he looks back on his experiences at the age of twenty-six and recalls the intense suffering he endured during this war, including hunger and extreme privation, witnessing the torture and murder of many innocent civilians, and learning to kill and torture himself. In the end, he became as brutal and dehumanized as the people who had destroyed his family and home. His main themes ...

Analysis of Summary

This paper will point out the analysis and results of different summaries that follow the rules of a good summary. I have chosen to write a summary on a single named ‘Beautiful’ by famous rapper Eminem. The reason for picking out this summary is because of its easiness to understand. Also, the summary paraphrases the information from the original sources, instead of using the words directly from the source. It acknowledges the original writer and the titles. 1. The song ‘Beautiful’: Rap music is the most popular genre of music among people around the world. Beautiful is a single song ...

1995's Dangerous Minds, the urban school drama directed by John N. Smith and starring Michelle Pfeiffer, tells the tale of real-life teacher LouAnne Johnson, who dramatically transformed the lives of kids at an inner-city school through dedication and innovative teaching practices - all the while dealing with sensitive issues of race and violence in schools and the inner city. While its intentions are noble, Dangerous Minds tends to warp Johnson's story into a treacly, overly sentimental mess that cannot be saved by a strong cast and assured direction. In the end, the overt melodrama and incredibly simplified morality of the film undercuts ...

The Byron Hurt documentary Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes explores themes of masculinity and social messages in hip-hop and rap music, interviewing many prominent rappers in the industry and breaking down the messages and cultural standards that rap culture brings to men (black men in particular). Hurt's messages involve recognizing the sexism, homophobia and stereotypical aggression inherent to today's rap culture, and the barriers that prevent more socially conscious messages from coming through. Examining these types of issues is important, due to media's astounding influence on our behavior; recognizing the bad things men do in the name of masculinity ...

The Psychological Effects of Rap Music: The Negative Outweighing the Positive

Violence among modern day youth, males in particular, is often attributed to the influence of hip hop or rap music. Studies have shown that rap music, lyrics and videos promote violence, sex, and materialism. However, there is also some research that shows that rap music, especially gangsta rap, drive a positive reaction such as facing oppression, community unity and attaining respect, an idea found to be promoted as much as violence . Hence, it can be said that, the nature and content of rap music has changed in step with the evolution of the African American society. As such, there is a ...

The exact definition of the word “Crunk” is still debated as are its exact origins. A popular and casual definition in music circles is however “crazy and drunk” (Adaso, 2012). The style of music became popular in the mid 1990s and took over from the rap culture that was getting prevalent at that time as signified by the south of the United States. In the 1900’s Rap and Hip Hop culture that predominantly developed in neighbourhoods of Atlanta, Tennessee, New Orleans, Miami and Houston expanded beyond its spatial and cultural origins and took on a very different, bold and ...

Misogyny in Rap Lyrics

Introduction Sexism and misogyny exist throughout our popular culture. Even with that in mind gangsta rap is pointed to more often than other music genres as posing a serious problem in its presentation of women and the heavily misogynistic view that this involves. It is unclear who is potentially at fault here: for some, it is the music industry and its continued endorsement of such music, whilst for others it is the rappers themselves who write and perform the lyrics in question. Otware (2011) states that “Sexism, misogyny and homophobia permeate the music” (Otware, 2011, p31) which demonstrates how ...

Rap and Misogyny

Introduction Rap music is one of the modern “reinventions” of the music that was first brought to America from the rich culture of Jamaica. By the late 1970s, rap represented an aesthetic cultural expression for urban African American youths (Adam & Fuller, 2006). The genre gained popularity all over the world, possibly because of its regular beat and the way lyrics can be emphasized by that beat. In the 21st century, rap is considered “black music” or African American music, and there are certainly great musicians of such descent who have energized this type of music, with poetry ...

19 May 2011

Black Masculinity in the Media

Introduction

Representation of black masculinity in the modern mass media is one of the most topical themes of our times. At present time there are a lot of studies which analyze portrayals of Afro-American men in the media and also play one of the crucial roles in creation of these images. However, still there are certain gaps in research. That is why in terms of this paper we would like also to focus our attention on the black masculinity and analyze images, which are shown in a variety of the media sources. In the course of our ...