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Young Black Men Young Black Man
1,253 words... had time to realize any of these embodiments. Shakur himself often said that he expected he'd die by the sword before he reached thirty. He died at the age of twenty five. Following his passing, Shakur's label released an album, The Don K illuminati, under the pseudonym "Makaveli. " The cover depicted Shakur nailed to a cross under a crown of thorns, with a map Of the country's major gang areas superimposed on it. Shakur was upfront about his troubled life in the 1995 release "Me Against The...
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Songs Played On The Radio Played On The Radio Album
803 wordsIncubus has been around for some time but their newest album has caught my attention and the attention of the music world. The album entitled Make Yourself features a great selection of music with every song on the record being good. Today there are cds that contain the 2 or 3 good songs played on the radio and thats it, with Incubus the songs on the cd are even better than the ones that are known. They are creative and use their own type of style and their own music. Incubus's third record, Mak...
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People Can Relate Back And Forth
935 wordsIn the past couple of years, the rap genre of music has slowly but surely taken over the music industry. Today rappers talk about prostitution, drugs and diseases. When will a rapper rap about real life situations that catch society's ear? Eminem (aka Slim Shady) has accomplished just that. Although people may think that Eminem's lyrics are inappropriate, it is absolutely necessary that a man, who has experienced such a burden on his life, be able to share his problems with the rest of the world...
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Lonely Hearts Upper Lip
2,195 wordsI read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade... he blew his mind out in a car. He didn't notice that the lights had changed. (the Beatles, 1967) These lyrics proved to fans that Paul McCartney had indeed died in a tragic auto accident in late 1966. Some people were skeptical about the explanation, but upon investigating the album covers and the lyrics of the Beatles's ong's, the story seems to make sense. Some of the lyrics have to be a twisted in order to make sense in th...
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Alice Walker Black Men
1,466 wordsWhen I first started rapping, me and a couple brothers would all sit around my place free styling while someone beat boxed. I even used to tell all the girls that I was a poet. They seemed to find it a little more touching than a rapper" (Prince Paul, The Source 16) The lyrics of rappers are very similar to the words of Black poets. It is argued as to wether or not rap is a viable form of poetry. Both discuss similar subjects, write in the same style and use the same type of language in their wr...
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Jim Morrison Lead Singer
1,104 wordsPoet William Blake once said "If The Doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite" (Gilmore 34). From this quote arose a band that even over 20 years after its disbanding still is played and remembered. The Doors started as a little garage band in California back in the early sixties. They were extremely popular due to their lead singer, Jim Morrison. Morrison himself was a real character. Morrison is considered by many critics a modern day poet. Others vi...
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Recording Industry Association Legally Obscene
956 wordsAlbums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (web). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens; however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor their children or society,...
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Effects Of Music On Human Behavior
1,747 wordsAs music has changed through out the years, artists have become much more lax with the message that they send to the public. As laws of censorship change, a separation of the publics freedom of speech and the medias has become very significant. As the government cracks down, many artists fight to keep their freedom. With people blaming their actions on the lyrics of the music they are exposed to, this is going to be a hard feat for the artists to accomplish. Although the fight of the musical art...
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Plays An Important Role Marlboro Cigarettes
1,783 wordsAffirmative Culture Introduction In this paper we will discuss the socio-political role of Country music, as the best example of affirmative culture in work. This musical style remains very popular in America, as well as in other countries, where political conservatism is popular, among people. Despite the fact that Countrys lyrics mostly revolve around the theme of love, they also promote a certain political philosophy, which is the by-product of capitalist society. Country lyrics glorify indiv...
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People Don T Censored Ed
1,541 words? Only God can judge me/ Nobody else/ Nobody else/ All you other mutha censored as/ get out of my business, ? said by Tupac Shakur at the beginning of his song, ? Only God Can Judge Me. ? Tupac was a gangster rap artist who practiced what he preached. Because of his profanity and lyrics, people say he should be censored. He has the right to rap about whatever he wishes, because it? s his way to expressing his feelings, it? s not against the law, and it? s the truth. Tupac uses a lot of profanity...
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Rock N Roll Type Of Music
2,750 wordsRap music as a musical form began among the youth of South Bronx, New York in the mid 1970? s. Individuals such Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash were some of the early pioneers of this art form. Through their performances at clubs and promotion of the music, rap consistently gained in popularity throughout the rest of the 1970? s. The first commercial success of the rap song? Rappers Delight? by the Sugar Hill Gang in 1979 helped bring rap music into the national spotlight. The 1980? s saw the co...
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Nursery Rhyme Grateful Dead
1,480 wordsWho can say where the prose comes from that flow from the pens of the author s of the Grateful Dead s lyrics? Careful listening reveals a strong tendency toward the ancient form of the nursery rhyme. From Robert Hunter s first lyric for the band Alligator (Hunter 6), in which he echoes Old King Cole (Gould 143), to John Perry Barlow s Throwing Stones (Dodd), nursery rhymes have provided both text and rhythm, and seem to fit well into the playful sound of the Dead. The rhythm of nursery rhyme pre...
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Sexually Explicit Material Langston Hughes
3,344 wordsCensorship of American Media and Music The first amendment to the Constitution contends that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of the press. In the past ten years especially, music has been under assault by lawmakers, prosecutors and critics of morality and taste. One attack on this freedom comes from parental advisory stickers. These stickers are used as a form of censorship against an artist an...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg Hip Hop Music
1,125 wordsHip-Hop Getting a Bad Rap Among many problems in society today, rap music is being blamed for the confusion of Americas youths. One key problem is the way a child is raised. Not having a positive role model can have a powerful effect on a child. The other dilemma is the type of rap music. Gangster rappers lyrics seem to corrupt and have a negative image on a youths mind. Two possible steps to taking the blame away from rap music is by placing the spotlight on other influences such as friends and...
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People Who Live Woody Guthrie
3,047 wordsThis Land is My Land: An Analysis of How Songwriters and Musicians are Affected by Location This land is your land, this land is my land From California To the New York Island From the Redwood forest To the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me. -Woody Guthrie Although the above lines, from Woody Guthrie's geographical classic This Land is Your Land, are deep-rooted in American Soil they still work as an excellent indicator of how a songwriters location can reflect the ideas and m...
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Recording Industry Association Wal Mart
1,899 wordsAlbums with explicit lyrics or content started having black and white parental advisories on them in 1994 (web). Are these labels necessary? Is controversial music molding our society and causing teenagers to turn to drugs? Is censorship necessary to protect the youth of our nation. Generally, younger people are against censorship on this issue. Music is an outlet and even an anti-drug for many teens; however, parents and society feel differently. Should parents censor their children or society,...
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Young Black Men Young Black Man
2,414 wordsFrom cool jazz to Chicago blues, gospel to R&# 038; B, reggae, and gangsta rap. For a century, African-Americans, Blacks, Negros and or Niggas, or (what ever label or category is decided this millennium), have been in the vanguard of recorded music in every style imaginable. Raps origins stretch far back to African oral tradition; it has a more immediate predecessor in the spoken-word expressionism of 60 s activists like the Last Poets, or Le Roi Jones (later known as Amiri Baraka), who performe...
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Marilyn Manson Heavy Metal
1,291 wordsHealthy debates have been caused by todays music. Generally, foul language has rapidly increased within modern popular song lyrics, especially among rap and heavy metal artists songs. An increase in explicit violence and misogyny in popular music lyrics has been recorded. These lyrics have been judged to be inspirations for violent, suicidal, and criminal acts. For example, Mr. Raymond Kuntz referred to his sons incident. When his wife went to wake their son for school, they found him dead of a ...
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Recording Industry Association Industry Association Of America
1,079 wordsThe PMRC was founded in May of 1985. (Tipper) In November of 1985 the PMRC met with the Recording Industry Association of America. The two organizations made an agreement that a label saying Explicit Lyrics-Parental Advisory should be placed on albums containing obscenities, or sexual lyrics. The main parent leading the PMRC is Al Gores wife, Tipper Gore. Tipper Gore seems to be ruining her husbands chances at ever becoming president. The problem is that the entertainment industry, which would m...
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Rock N Roll R 038 B
3,304 wordsRap Music; It s impact on society since it s birth. The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines rap as a rhythmic chanting of usual rhymed couplets to a musical accompaniment. The purpose of this paper is to show how rap music has come to be. Also, citing the many performers who have mad this form of music what it is today. Rap is a large part of our society and its evolution is proof that this personal style of music will be around for a very long time. Rap music as a musical form began among the yo...
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