Essays on Rapper

The Greek philosopher Aristotle first led the discussions on the concept of genre in order to create a distinction between multiple works of text based upon their common characteristics. The word itself is a Latin derivative of genus. It implies a sense of definition that can be stated in common English as ‘the like of’. The word genre has went on to include a vast number of different types of text, music and visual medium since the ancient Greek empire. Specific words such as drama, essay, commentary, news etc. are now used to identify the specific nature of 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. ...

Rap has entered the history of American art over a century ago. The people who have laid the foundations for rap as we know it today were the two big ethnical groups of the American society: African Americans and people from the Caribbean Islands. Folk artists of the mentioned origins were telling rhymed stories with the accompaniment of rhythmic music (drums and sparse instrumentation). This music already existed years before hip-hop was developed and became popular. Rapping is actually reading or chanting of rhythmic lyrics that were designed to set a beat. Many specialists are of the opinion that ...

In our paper, we will try to understand and find a correspondence between such concepts as rap and classic poetry. In our article, we hold a point of view, according to which rap is still modern poetry. In any poetry, we find the good and bad, but got used to calling all this stuff the poetry. So there is the same division into good and bad rap. The main “Chief of Justice”, that is, the factor separating rap and poetry into good and bad is time. Until our times, there have been a lot of poems, true masterpieces of ...

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, ...

Producer, rapper, musician, designer – all these are different shades of one person, whose name is Kanye West. We believe that the contribution of Mr. West to the African American Renaissance culture cannot be overestimated as he completely changed the approach to making the hip-hop music and made the audience of people, who listen to hip-hop, far wider thanks to the diversity of the sounding in his songs. Also, he looked at the new role of African Americans in society and their image, showing that African American rappers are not gangsters from the hood with the Uzi in their bosom ...

The United States has a traumatic and brutal past in relation to African Americans. This sad legacy of slavery, it would be accurate to say, translates into many diverse fields even though litigation and other institutions keep it check. This being the case, the performance industry has not been the African American’s best friend culminating in black face and other fraught phenomena. However, in the twentieth century, or rather, the second half of the twentieth century has embraced diversity in an unprecedented way. This trend is what gives rise to a renaissance of artists stemming from diverse backgrounds, ...

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! ...

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 ...