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In this article “It’s a Hip Hop World”, I think that it represents Hip Hop as a multicultural platform in popular culture. Hip Hop is not only a platform for black people but for everyone because it is an art of communication no matter where it takes place. I like that Dana Burton created the Iron Mic because it is a way for people in China to pursue Hip Hop and providing multinational corporations to market to their upcoming consumer. In a way this makes me think about various artist like Jay-Z, Chris Brown, Rihanna, etc. have music tours all around the world, and they bring sold out because they have fans that love their music all around the world. I went to Kevin Hart’s comedy tour when he came to Lexington, and he talked about him just leaving from his tour in China, and he was amazed at how much love he received while being there and it was no better feeling knowing that he could touch all these people’s lives. …show more content…

I have this a lot on movies such as “Stomp the Yard”, where actor Columbus Short showed off his dance movies to prove that he was the best against a school fraternity but ends up coming up short due to the love of the fraternity and being the top winners every year for Homecoming or even on BET commercial breaks or after the BET awards, where they have rappers in a cipher on the commercial showing off their skills of rap and how they use their uniqueness and flow. I feel as if hip hop is multipurpose like graffiti being viewed as bad, but artist such as Chris Brown incorporates graffiti in his designs for label covers, clothing designs, or even in his movie “Chris Brown: Welcome to My Life” he created a painting with him and his daughter Royal coming from a graffiti design he

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