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Gangsta Rap Promote Violence
1,289 wordsRap music began in the mid 1970 's with artists such as Grandmaster Flash, Africa Bambaataa, and Kurtis Blow. According to the encyclopedia based web site infoplease. com " the word rap is derived from a 1960 's slang word for conversation. (web). This extraordinary style of music served as a form of street poetry for most artists. With a mixture of jazz, disco, and funk rap became extremely popular within the African American and Hispanic communities. Some of the artist spoke of only fiction st...
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Shock Waves Hip Hop
1,565 wordsIt's unexplanitory, how I gets lifted higher than a hundred stories; I take a beer and I guzzle it, I'm speaking's o shut your mouth and muzzle it; smokin' el's and rollin' reefer, I'll get you more f -- -ed up than a can of ether; so beautiful when I light it up, and then I -- Wax of Esmob, "Lil' Ass Playa" (Lose 1995) Lines much like these are not uncommon in today's rap music. Many artists are integrating the subject of drug use into their songs. Such music has become mainstream and yet even ...
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Nine Inch Nails Rock 'n' Roll
1,040 wordsHeavy Metal's popularity is and has been on the rise due to its many bands and increased guitar technology. Since the mid 1960 's, when heavy metal spread to the U. S. from England, it has grown in popularity. Many of the first bands that came from Europe came with two intentions; to spread heavy metal to other parts of the world, and to make it grow in popularity. (Ragland 1). Heavy metal is a form of rock 'n' roll music played on electric guitars and amplified to unnatural volume levels. Such ...
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Hip Hop Grandmaster Flash
914 wordsRahzel M. Brown was born in Queens, New York and recalls that not having was never an excuse for not doing. Just as in its most organic state the essence of hip hop is making something out of nothing, Rahzel learned how to feed his need to be creative. We didnt have the turntables inside the locker room and we couldnt bring our boom box in there. Either we were banging on the locker, or somebody was (making music) with their mouth. I was the one who made the beats with my mouth. I worked hard so...
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Ho Chi Minh World War Ii
1,146 words... ry to get re-elected. Johnson returned to his home in Texas in 1969, and died on January 22, 1973, RICHARD NIXON Richard Nixon was born on January 9, 1913 in Yurba Linda, California. During World War II he served as a United States navy officer. In 1946, he was elected to the House of Representatives and then the Senate in 1950. He served as Dwight Eisenhower's Vice President from 1952 to 1960. Nixon became the thirty-seventh president in 1968. President Richard Nixon was the only president ...
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Hard Day Night Lennon And Mccartney Beatles
531 wordsThe English ROCK MUSIC group The Beatles gave the 1960 s its characteristic musical flavor and had a profound influence on the course of popular music, equaled by few performers. The guitarists John Winston Lennon, b. Oct. 9, 1940; James Paul McCartney, b. June 18, 1942; and George Harrison, b. Feb. 25, 1943; and the drummer Ringo Starr, b. Richard Starkey, July 7, 1940, were all born and raised in Liverpool. Lennon and McCartney had played together in a group called The Quarrymen. With Harrison...
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Star Trek Ha Ha
1,407 words... entry did a musical album entitled "Old Yellow Eyes Is Back. " The title parodies Frank Sinatra ("Old Blue Eyes") and the character Spider plays; he dons yellow contact lenses as part of his android costume. One of the songs on the album features his fellow co-stars as backup singers. A final note belongs to Wil Wheaton, who plays Ensign Wesley Crusher (and son to Dr. Crusher, the ship's doctor) on The Next Generation. He had already acquired some semblance of fame as the lead in the flick S...
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Gloria Estefan Successful Life
387 wordsThere's no growth with out a lot of hard work and little risk. " ( web xml / troy cities /geo. htm) This statement is a reflection of what Gloria stands for. However there is more to Gloria, than concerts and videos, her personal life. Which would consist of family and marriage. Then of course there is her fabulous career. Gloria was born in 1959, in Havana, Cuba, her father, was a cuban solder. Gloria left cuba when she was two years old. Gloria ...
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Eminem Marshall Song
398 wordsYou would be surprised how many people judge and discriminate Marshall Mathers Eminem . He has been protested against and hated on throughout the most important years of his life- the years that he will remember for the rest of his life. Marshall was born in Detroit Michigan, 1974 and lived there for most of his childhood. He moved once to Kansas but moved back soon after, into a black neighborhood where he did the rest of his growing. Marshall was the source of so many fights when he was in sch...
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Smash Hit Brandy Boyfriend
661 wordsWow by Brandy. In this song Brandy's talking / singing to her ex boyfriend telling him that she wont cry over him anymore and that he took her for granted while he had her. But now she found somebody new and this new guy treats her so much better. In lines 1 - 8 - Brandy's sick of her ex boyfriends BS basically, she doesn't want to deal with waiting up for him to take his time to call and visit her. She's telling him to not even bother anymore because she's sick of it, sick of being taken for gr...
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Tupac Was Arrested Hughes Brothers Role
1,116 words... th a rubber doll to the latest dance craze. Just as things were again beginning to look up for Tupac, he learned that his mother was addicted to crack. "I was on the road with D. U. and called my homies in Marin City just to say wassup, and they told me my moms was buying dope from somebody. It fucked me up. I started blocking her out of my mind, " he says, fingering his gold watch. Neither Tupac nor Afeni will talk much about that period. "After she started smoking dope and all that, " says...
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Death Metal Another Controversial Kind Of Music
657 wordsWe can say that the birth of Death Metal was inspired by cult thrash metal bands like Sodom, Destruction (both German), Slayer and Dark Angel in the USA. The sound was very deep and heavy, and the lyrics was again concerning controversial arguments like war, death, sickness, and religion. In 1986 Slayer's cult album Reign In Blood, an absolute masterpiece in metal, caused the increase of the following in extreme metal music, and, some years later the mixing of metal, hardcore and the need to go ...
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811 wordsRiley King A. K. A. : B. B. King & # 9; Instruments: Electric Guitar, Vocals & # 9; Life span: 1925 -? ? ? ? & # 9; Style Synopsis: Style is the word that describes the way that B. B. He uses signature tremolo and 'T-Bone Walker' influenced jazzy sounding blues riffs. Also, in words of B. B. , 'I don't do no chords'. He can also tell when muted notes are more necessary than full notes. Biography & # 9; For as long as anyone can remember, B. B. King has reigned as the 'King Of Blu...
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Hannah Lyrics Cd Cover Hanna's
336 wordsArt Project (1) Hannah Montana is pseudonym of Miley Cyrus, who plays in a new comedy series on Disney channel. Her first album, which was released in October of 2006, consists of 18 songs on 2 CD disks. Hannah's lyrics can be described in terms of pop music, even though that country influences are clearly present in her songs. (2) Hannah's album CD cover conveys a certain message. On it, we can see the picture of young girl who puts finger to her lips, as if she is about to tell us a big secret...
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Helter Skelter Race War
749 wordsCharles Manson was a bearded, wild-eyed 35 year old career criminal and pimp, who stood a mere 52. He memorized a group of largely middle class youths into thinking he was Christ incarnate. Using manipulation with drugs and force of personality, Manson molded the young people into killers. They would be lucky enough to carry out his visions of Helter Skelter. One of the youths picked up was Leslie Van Houston. She met him, and was very suprised at his advanced age and definitive size. Within a m...
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Recording Techniques Four Track Sounds
284 wordsGeorge Martin differed from most producers of record albums from his time. When he worked with the Beatles, he made the album sound the way the way they wanted it to sound instead of he wanted it to. Whatever sound that they wanted on the album, he had to go find it. The recording techniques he used had never been done before, they were breakthroughs at the time. Like in the song? Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite? , he took several recordings of calliopes, organs, and other circus sounds and to...
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Jimi Hendrix Guitar Style Rock
369 wordsHad rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix not died of complications from a drug overdose on Sept. 18, 1970, at the age of 27 theres no doubt he would have continued to contribute great works of art not only in the pop world but also in the jazz realm. At the time of his death, he was preparing to collaborate with Miles Davis, who was fascinated with his searing music. Hendrix was born in Seattle on Nov. 27, 1942. A fan of Muddy Waters, Elmore James, B. B. King and Chuck Berry, Hendrix developed a guitar s...
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Yoko Ono Paul Mccartney
605 wordsShown Slivkof John Lennon 1940 - 1980 John Lennon, a singer, artist, guitar player, among many other things. What didnt he accomplish in a lifetime? John Lennon was born on October 9, 1940, In Liverpool, England. When John was 4 years old his parents split up and John was sent to go live with his Aunt Mimi. As a child in school he was a prankster and enjoyed getting into lots of trouble all of the time. When he first to up the skill of drawing, he would sketch and draw crippled and deformed peop...
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Music Censorship First Amendment
710 wordsMusic Music Censorship Music Censorship Music censorship has been an ongoing issue in the US for the last fifty years or so. In 1951 radio stations banned Dottie OBrians Four or Five Times and Dean Martins Wham Bam Thank You Maam because they thought that they were suggestive. Also during the fifties and sixties attempts were mad to censor R&# 038; B music. In 1953 six counties in South Carolina made it against the law to operate a jukebox within hearing distance of a church. In 1957 producers o...
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Nellc 244 Te Exile On Main Street Stones
798 wordsStoned on the Riviera Mick Jagger and Keith Richards by Dominique Tarl? Exile Dominique Tarl&execute; Genesis Publications? 245, pp 248 Early 1971 found the Rolling Stones still sucking on the sour, sticky end of the Sixties. Following the abdication of the Beatles, they were now rocks reigning monarchs, but after the death of Brian Jones (and those of Joplin and Hendrix), and in the aftermath of their personal Apocalypse Now at Altamont, the fancies of the previous decade looked suddenly remote...
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