Despite being one of the most impactful genres of its time, there isn't a fully accurate portrayal of gangster rap's history. The origins of the genre, as we know it today, lie in 1988 when the rap group N.W.A. released its seminal album Straight Outta Compton. The album received praise and much more scrutiny but it's brutally honest depiction of life in South Central Los Angeles captured the attention of the nation's youth. However, the subject matter of N.W.A.'s music created an exaggerated image for them and every other artist that partook in the genre. Along with the rise of gangster rap there was an increase in the public’s awareness of street gangs.
“As we keep empowering ourselves to push that limit, then we’ll be opening doors for the next generation and the next generation,” says Arenas, bassist for Chicano Batman. “And because we have Instagram and Bandcamp we have the self-starter tools for musicians to really put their business out there, then we can all create our own destiny”. Many Chicano rappers have been heavily influenced by Mexican history, including many themes relevant to the Mexican and Chicano people living in the United States and Mexico. Chicano rap is mainly enjoyed by hip hop listeners in the United States. Chicano rap's ability to reach large audiences without mainstream airplay or media promotion is due largely in part to nationwide lowrider car tours and their accompanying concerts headlined by Chicano rappers.
From Mexican heroes like Pancho Villa, to vintage lowriders, an eyesore to Anglos who are unaware of the complexity of Chicanx culture. Chicanxs are not confined to society’s preconceived notions that define what it means to be a Mexican-American. Chicanx art is separate from Anglo art, unneeded for the white gaze; it is experiences, spirituality, history, love, and expression of self. The Chicano Movement of the 1960s was the response to the oppression and discrimination of Mexican-Americans in the United States. The movement fueled an emergence of Chicanx art that countered dominant narratives perpetuated by society.
The Hip-Hop and Rap industry has, for many years, been the pride of the black community. It was curated by them and rooted in their culture, with the history of its origins dating back to the days of slavery, the lyrical rhymes and the metaphors being a part of the secret language they constructed in order to protect themselves from the white masters. Eventually, the genre expanded to encompass a whole culture filled with songs about the hardship of black bodies, a unique sense of fashion, a different manner of speaking and acting, etc. In recent years, the genre has been rapidly rising to popularity. You can now hear rap and hip-hop songs emanating from bars to people’s cars.
Yve Nsanzinshuti Musi102-01 Gearey Jon Friday, 12 April, 11:59 PM From an Outcast Genre to a Global Name: OutKast's Influence on the Evolution of Hip-Hop Originating in the underdeveloped and funded Bronx neighbourhood of New York City in the 1970s, a genre called hip-hop was born. This highly popular style, which is recognizable due to its rhythmic beats and poetic lyricism, is heavily influenced by African American and Afro-Caribbean communities in America. This influence has spread throughout the world, transforming a local expression of urban youth culture to a global phenomenon that is present in a variety of economically, racially, and culturally diverse homes. One of the most important hip-hop groups in the early years of the genre is OutKast, a duo formed of two young
Very similarly to rhythm and blues, rock and roll and the Civil Rights Movement inspired hip hop in a variety of different ways, as African American artists worked to find a space for themselves in the music industry. Not many people find a correlation between African Americans and Rock and Roll, but there’s surprisingly a deep history, and it’s not just white people who developed this specific genre, but there was African American-centered and ghetto-centered versions of rock and roll. “There are enough similarities between, for instance, rock & roll and commercial rap, especially rock rap, to make a case for critically engaging them as interracial arenas where black and white youths, among others, put forward messages and advanced ideals that have been not only informed by the Civil Rights Movement and the Hip Hop Movement, respectively, but in turn, even if only implicitly, have influenced the rhetoric, politics, and aesthetics of these movements” (Rabaka 99). There was a strong transition from this type of “rock rap” music being labeled as ghetto music, into universal music that people of all races and ethnicities would listen to.
Hip-Hop is a cultural movement that emerged from the dilapidated South Bronx, New York in the early 1970’s. The art of rapping has been a conversation header for many years. The main topic one will hear about rap is whether the newer rappers and rap songs are anywhere as good as the older rappers and rap songs. Each age group defends the rappers of their time because what you grow up with is what you feel like is best. Rap has changed throughout the times, adapting to the different age groups so they can continue to make money.
Rap is stereotyped as music for gangsters and not for good kids. It has been around long enough that even parents listen to it. Rap has changed our culture, but where did it begin? The discovery of rap is an important time in America’s history. It has given us dreams, changed our views of the world, and there have even been a museum exhibit of graffiti inspired by rap in New York.
Hip-hop earned a lot of popularity when rappers like ice-cube and will smith started acting and used their songs in there movies and tv shows. Then rappers like Tupac, Biggie, Snoop Dogg,Jay-z, and the rap group NWA became some of the most well known artists around the globe. Sean, Puff Daddy, Combs is one of the most successful people in hip-hop, he started his own record label and signed one of the most popular rappers of all time, Biggie Smalls. Eventually a rivalry started between the west coast and the east coast. The west coast having people like Tupac, Snoop Dogg, and Dr.Dre and the east had Biggie.
In the 1970’s a new music culture emerged from the predominately African American neighborhood of Bronx, New York City. Hip-hop, as a music and a culture, grew
Three decades on from its birth in the ravaged communities of the South Bronx, hip-hop has become, at least in young people, a universal language of disaffection and revolt (Wallis 1). Rap music went from an underground movement from the streets of 1970s New York City to a massive force in the music industry. Hip-hop is known as a culture movement. Hip-hop is a pleasing art form, formed by African-Americans and Latinos in the late seventies. Its formation derives from a young generation of African-Americans in South Bronx, New York.
Rap music often features lyrica that comment on social issues, including poverty, racism, and politics. Rap has had a significant impact on popular culture, including fashion, language, and dance. Some of the most famous rappers include Tupac, Eminem, Jay-Z, and Kendric Lamar. Rap music had different subgenres emerging, which consists of gangsta rap, conscious rap, and mumble rap. Gangsta rap, which in the 1980s and early 1990s, its violent and explicit lyrics, often
Harrison Wilmot APUSH (H period) Mr. Hinckley 13 May 2023 Rap’s History is about “keepin’ it real” Research Question: Explore the truth of modern rap’s origins; how do you chronologize its past and present? Rap, also known as hip hop music, is a cultural expression that emerged in the African American and Latinx communities of the Bronx in New York City in the 1970s. While its origins can be traced back to African oral traditions, jazz, blues, gospel, and other musical forms, its “real” development can be distinguished into three categories: its inspiration from African griots, the evolution of African symbolism in rap lyrics, and the lasting impact of the pivotal US rap song, “Rapper’s Delight” by The SugarHill Gang. “The roots
This type of music started to sweep the nation. The small rap group that started in Compton, CA started selling out venues and traveling around the
A. Analysis of Chosen Genre A1. Genre Development Hip hop is a subculture and an art movement that emerged from the Bronx in New York City during the early 1970s(PQ, 2023).Since its beginnings in the 1970s, hip-hop has evolved significantly into a dynamic and vital genre. Hip-hop, which has its origins in the African American and Caribbean populations of the Bronx, New York, has developed into a widespread cultural movement. At first, it was mostly composed of rap, DJing, breakdancing, and graffiti art. Rap music, on the other hand, swiftly took over as the predominant genre because to its rhythmic vocal delivery and literary lyrics.
