In “Prophets of The Hood”, by Imani Perry, she discusses and expresses her thoughts on the complexity of politics and poetics in Hip Hop. The novel describes Perry’s true meaning of Hip Hop. Throughout the novel, the author reveals four elements that make Hip Hop “black american music”. Two out the four elements that were discuss are political location of black americans and black oral and literary tradition. I agree with Perry’s idea that political location of black americans and the discourse of english in african americans creates black english/ebonics in hip hop that makes it their music.
Finally, hip-hop is inspirational and powerful because it summons people to come together and discard the social and racial issues they are faced
The article “Hip Hop Planet” by James McBride is about how hip hop is not his favorite type of music but, it needs to be heard. McBride shows us this by explaining that he avoided hip hop most of his life. In the article McBride says that he basically ignored “the most important cultural event in my lifetime.” James informs us that hip hop has influenced the world globally and that it has become a phenomenon. Furthermore, McBride made clear that he eventually realized that hip hop is much more than just music, it has a message.
“Hail Mary, N**** come with me. What do we have here no do you want to ride or die,” Hip-hop music, according to Dictionary.com is defined as, A style of music which originated from black and Hispanic cultures. Tupac, Eazy-E, and Hopsin are three major contributors to hip-hop.
Hip-hop not only made new music, but it created roots with fashion, culture, and a life behind it. Synthesis The hip hop genre through the late 70s and 80s is powerful to say the least, It brought people together in struggling times and now brings people up when listening. Studies have shown that people that listen to hip-hop can connect with themselves more and find an easier time with issues like emotion control, mental health, motivation, motor function, and more (‘found’ organization). "Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop”(Jay-Z).
According to the University of California at Davis, during the 1930’s “roughly 2.5 million people left the dust bowl states” due to the desolate conditions. The story The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, shows the hardships of the fictitious Joads family who left Oklahoma, during the dust bowl, in search of more opportunities. Throughout the story, Steinbeck claims that the “elite” control the money and power and use it for the wrong reasons, while the migrants are given less and have greater needs. In the beginning, Steinbeck describes the elite landowners as harsh, ignorant and altruistic.
Hip Hop is seen as something inspiring, but most people see it as a way to speak out the truth about a problem. As in “Hip Hop planet” being able say the truth can sometimes worsen any situation because sometimes what we say can promote violence and whatever happens after is not in our control. The essay is about how hip hop has changed into speaking out the issues that need to be taken care of in order to maintain a proper society. McBride talked about how rappers use violent lyrics to degrade women and gays and because of this it shows how the music has evolved into something entirely different that no one would have ever expected to have changed. In James McBride's essay “Hip Hop Planet,” he argues that hip hop has a negative influence on American Culture despite people thinking of it as inspirational and how people live through different experiences in life despite of your race.
Hip Hop is a music genre developed in the Bronx by African Americans in the 1970s. It is a reflection of shared truths in urban communities. Being African-american, I am able to identify with the cultural aspect of the genre. In order to be considered significant you must be consistent, influential, and selfless. Which is why it makes perfect sense for Jay-z to be the most significant musician from the Hip Hop Genre of the 20th
When people think of a hip-hop singer a lot of great people come to mind, but you rarely see hip-hop singers change into rappers. August Alsina, B.o.B, Trey Songz, and Miguel just to name a few of the many great hip-hop singers who debuted around the same time as Chris Brown.. When people think of hip-hop they see turntables being used and different digital samplers, sequencers, drum machines, and synthesizers to make the beats artist use. In the genre of Hip-Hop, there may be many affordances, but there isn’t really any limitations because you could pretty much talk about anything in Hip-Hop. Some people might say that Hip-Hop’s conventions are people rapping, but they never look at it as people singing as well.
Hip Hop If you ask people who are uneducated in Hip Hop culture you’d hear things such as ignorance, violence, and pestilence. If you ask someone who’s studied, loves and appreciates Hip Hop culture you’d hear things such as aspire, desire, and inspire. Hip Hop is meant to express not to suppress.
The Impact of Hip-Hop Ever since its birth in the 1970s in West Bronx, Hip Hop has been known as “Gangsta” music and most commonly associated with black culture. Since its creation it has become a fast growing genre of music and has growing fame all over the world. The popularity of it has increased to all races, age and gender. However the growing popularity of hip hop has come with several controversies among scholars. Some scholars argue that the growing popularity of the genre is very helpful to low income families who can use this as their outlet into going to Universities, on the other side some believe associating the genre to black culture is bad for the culture as a whole and they should not be associated together.
¨If Hip Hop has the ability to corrupt minds, it also has the ability to uplift them.¨ Hip hop music, also called rap music, is a music genre developed in the United States by African Americans consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. Mainstream hip hop culture is also filled with misogyny and negative images of women. These artists are unaware that sexism has been forced onto them through the brainwashing from the media, which is controlled by a patriarchal society. Conversely, feminism is the belief that both genders should have equal power.
When you take a look at hip hop artists and their music is ether a biography on their life and hardships , political statements or something anyone can relate too no matter the culture, nationality or race. For example, Eminem wrote albums on what people stories of him a unhealthy household,raising a daughter, and dealing with personal toxic flaws of his . Hip hop allows artists like him be able to put their feeling and thoughts onto paper without losing all the emotion it already has. Like stated before even
Hip-hop constitutes of clothing, language (poetic) graffiti art, break dancing, Mcing/ rhyming and beatboxing. This music genre has a prodigious influence on the black community in most parts of America as well as in many diverse societies in the whole world. Hip-hop is apparent as more than just music but a culture. Hip hop speaks to the people, it conveys powerful message to
The birth of hip hop took place in the Bronx, New York , during a time of poverty , Initially when Hip Hop first came about no one would have imagined how vastly and quickly it grew nor would they have predicted the influence on society it has today. This particular enriched and animated, genre of music went from the local backwoods of the projects to a multi millionaire industry. If you ask most people today their definition of Hip Hop , generally they would say a cool rhyming scheme with a hook and a catchy tune, which is not too far off. But it is much deeper than that .Hip hop is a form of expression like a factory , if you may .
