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Richard Kyle Hip Hop Summary

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Richard, Kyle. “Hip-hop” Teen solutions, 17 Sept. 2014. Web. 30 Mar. 2015. Richard’s “Hip-hop” Article are known for informing people about the history of hip-hop, the background of the society of hip-hop and how far hip-hop has came from that day to present day. Toward the middle of his article he states “through lyrics they raised social consciousness by speaking out real issues affecting them, such as racism”(Kyle). Kyle is implying that people who rap and listen to hip-hop are expressing how they feel. It may not be an excuse for the cusswords or the provocative language but they are being real and trying to get people who don’t understand where their coming from to understand because most of those people have been through trials and tribulations …show more content…

There is a great huge deal about the racial divide in Hip-hop culture between the African Americans and Latinos. Breakdancing and graffiti there were more Latinos in that aspect but in a sense it was only in that aspect that’s why there the African Americans take ownership of hip-hop. The divisions follow the divisions that exist now in society. There are people that fight over whether or not white or Asian people can be apart but that is the only problem with the racial divides. One of the source’s strengths is Terry’s emphasis on “The culture coming out of Black culture”(Manly) in the different essences such as: African Americans would get the credit for it being misogynistic while on the other hand other people get the credit for being the creator of it. On both ends we have to reap the benefits as well for some of the …show more content…

The Hip-Hop youth activism movement was formed to advocate young people around the world to express themselves and their life situations through Hip-hop. Through the Hip-Hop youth activism movement, adolescents are able to utilize hip-hop to teach communities about the true meaning of hip hop culture, express the diversity of human experience and mobilize the masses for social change. Introduction: Some people may define hip-hop as being vile, destructive or even nonsense, but those people are closed-minded. Hip-hop is worth so much more than what its given credit for. In Run DMC’s rap, King of Rock “Got the right to vote and will elect, and other rappers cant stand us but give us respect.” In Run DMC’s rap he was an adolescent expressing that he finally got the chance to be something bigger than just an African American. He is able to finally be an equal and the people who dislike African Americans are enraged by the change in society but all they can do is sit there and accept the

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