Hip-Hop Spatial Patterns

Another factor that contributed to the spatial pattern of Hip-hop around the world is protesting through hip-hop music. Rapper Artist, Tupac Shakur, rapped about gun violence in America. In his song “Trapped” he described how police cause violence as they use guns as their weapons to harass and arrest black people. He says in the lyrics, that they can’t put the black man down and he’d rather die than to be trapped in a living hell. Kanye West also protested about the conflict “blood” diamonds in his song “Diamonds” (featuring Jay-Z) which is against violence. Conflict diamonds are diamonds that are mined and traded by rebel groups. It had been the source of murder and damage in African Continent in Sierra Leone. In the music video, children are forced to mine for “small bits of carbon that doesn’t have value for them” which shows violence.

She sang an anti-war version of his song, Faith with George Bush at Brits Awards. In the lyrics, she says “We’ve been here before/talk of violence and talk of war/I don’t wanna to see children die no more/so I gonna make a stand.” Ms Dynamite wants to make his 1987 hit as a protest against the war in Iraq. Same with the Rapper Eminem where he composed a song “Mosh” attacking George W. Bush by encouraging the young generation to vote to defeat Bush. However, most of the lyrics are complaints relating to Iraq war. In Brazil, Hip-hop Artist Costa helped Federal District’s Committee to create a hip-hop film titled “Don’t Traffic” which is about Human Trafficking. They believed that hip-hop film is the most effective way in voicing out their message throughout the country. According to Hip-hop artist Costa, the aim of the film is to protect human rights and prosecute criminals and also to give the message to young people through its simple and effective