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Targeted Audience Hip Hop
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1,263 words... gh modification of symbols and materials found in dominate culture. Individuals identify themselves with the changes they make to their cars, allowing their automobiles to project the image that they wish for themselves. Car Stereos also are an important factor in a "bitches ride. " The volumes achievable today in automobiles is staggering. Car Stereos often can be heard as far as a mile away, causing the whole chassis to rattle with each bass hit. West Side members, all have customized spea...
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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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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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Rap Artists Hip Hop
676 wordsControversy has always been a prominent characteristic of popular music throughout the twentieth century. Whether it be the controversy surrounding Elvis's winging hips, the Doors's uggestive lyrics, or Alice Cooper's stage antics, this controversy always seems to be followed by undue criticism from the media. One form of musical expression that has been in the news recently because of its negative attention is hip-hop. Rap, a relatively new form of musical exposition, has been criticized for it...
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Drugs And Alcohol Gang Violence
1,938 wordsAlthough a lot of todays music deals with problems in society, hip-hop stands ahead of all other forms of music in dealing with social problems. Predominantly black, hip-hop music deals with issues and problems facing the black youth mostly in the inner cities. More commonly known as rap music, artists such as the Notorious B. I. G. , Bone Thugs N Harmony, and 2 Pac have lead rap music into dealing with social issues. These artists rap about welfare, degradation of women, gang violence, poverty,...
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Hip Hop Four Stages
556 wordsLast weekend, a couple friends and I took a road trip to Cincinnati. Here we saw many of our favorite bands perform during the evening on Main Street. Having never seen any of the artists play live before, we were all very thrilled to be in Cincinnati on that night. Not only was the music enough, but the atmosphere of a big city and the smell of funnel cakes made it that much better. The people, as well as the weather, couldnt have been any nicer. Putting all of this together, you couldnt have h...
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The Life And Music Of Tupac Shakur
1,006 wordsWhat does it take to be an icon of the 21 st century? An icon is a symbol representing what a person did to be admired by many people and achieved many things rarely an ordinary person can do. I would consider Tupac to be an icon of the 21 st century because he became a living symbol of his generations to many hip-hop and rap fans all over the world. He was the son of Agent Shakur and Billy Garland. At his teens, his family moved to Baltimore, MD. He attended The Baltimore School for the Perform...
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Beats Per Minute Back And Forth
1,232 wordsWhat is a rave? Raving is a highly subjective experience. One person's best rave is another person's worst. Any attempt to analyze rave culture must recognize the highly personal factor of the experience. Author Daniel Martin defines a rave as "a long period of constant energetic and stylistic dancing exhibited by a large group of people in a hot, crowded facility providing continuous loud House music and an accompanying strobe lit psychedelic light show" (78). But what effect does the rave scen...
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B I G Racial Minorities
1,799 wordsNyisha T Coven Music: 230 Dr. Hollerbach The Story of Sean (1) Sean Puffy Combs was born in 1970 in Harlem. His father fell victim to gang related violence when Sean was 3 years old. Combs went to the private Mount St. Michael Academy in the Bronx, before getting into prestigious Howard University in Washington, DC and leaving after a year to pursue a career in the music business. Even in his early years, Combs proved that he was able to make a lot of money, while getting involved in various bus...
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Point Of View Hip Hop
1,411 wordsGotti Case It is very evident that modern life is full of contrast. Very often we cannot give a certain estimation to different processes which happen in our life. The case with famous rap singers (Gotti) can be treated to those cases. There are several approaches to the problem. Lets try to examine it from different point of view (realistic, surrealistic and absurd). Realistic approach can be defined as a concern for fact or reality. The facts are that hip-hop singers Irving Lorenzo and Christo...
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Targeted Audience Hip Hop
409 wordsDate: September 27, 2000 Subject: HBO s new series called KO Nation advertisement analysis Purpose of the advertisement: HBO is trying to promote its new boxing show for its network by using specific techniques of glamour and flashiness to attract its targeted audience. Description of the Advertisement: This particular advertisement is a large full page add with an extreme amount of bright coloring. The entire backdrop of the add is covered with red and blue jewels that are shiny and glimmering ...
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Salt Lake City Wanted To Play
5,210 wordsKobe Bryant: A player. You have to be very careful what you ask for in life-you just might get it. Just ask Kobe Bryant. May 12 th, 97. The Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT. Los Angeles Lakers vs. the Utah Jazz. Game Five. Theres 11. 3 seconds left in regulation and the score is tied, 87 - 87. In the words of De La Soul, stakes is high. Not only because the Jazz are leading the Lakers 3 - 1 in the Western Conference Semifinals, but because things have gotten personal. Its the little things: a sn...
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Nine Inch Nails Rock N Roll
3,815 wordsMTV History In 1954, the release of Rock around the clock, known as the original white Rock n Roll song and becoming number one on the pop charts, marked a turning point in the history of popular music and its success in the future. In the late 70 s, early 80 s, Reagan was president, then Senator Al Gores wife led the crusade against inappropriate rock lyrics and founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC). The hippies became yuppies and began to devote their time to raising well mannered, ...
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Mumia Abu Jamal Hip Hop
829 wordsFree Mumia Abu-Jamal A political prisoner is both a fellow citizen who received an unfair trial and a powerful symbol for those of us who are convinced this unfairness partly results from their political beliefs-beliefs that highlight the criminal justice system as a structure of unfairness. For example Nelson Mandela a South African political activist and lawyer Nelson was the organizational leader of the African national congress, Mandela was sentenced in 1964 to life in prison for sabotage, t...
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Gun Possession Hip Hop
606 wordsA jury acquitted Bad Boy Entertainment CEO Sean Puffy Combs and bodyguard Anthony Wolf Jones on all charges brought against them, after a 1999 shooting in a nightclub in Midtown Manhattan that injured three people. The verdicts finally ended a seven-week trial that produced the spectacle of two worlds in conflict: the gray bureaucracy of State Supreme Court in Manhattan and the flashy world of Mr. Combs, whose supporters filled the benches day after day. Before the verdict was read, Puffy stared...
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Second World War Pain And Suffering
1,597 wordsWords today mean so much in society that we seldom look back on the consequences they hold. These words can cause much pain, anguish, and conflict amongst people who don t even know each other. People say slurs such as jap, flip, chink, and jew to others, but they don t know who these other people are. These racial, religious, and ethnic remarks are made to demoralize others and to make others feel inferior. Sometimes these slurs are made in society where we have learned to live with them, by th...
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Hip Hop York City
704 wordsThis movie was off the hook! First of all, these are the type of movies that should be known to mankind. Save the Last Dance, is a blend of love and romance with a little piece of hate crimes, racism, and of course most definitely violence. Well to tell you the truth, most of the people don? t like love and romance. Save the Last Dance is a nice blending of a little piece of everything so it can entertain the people with different likes and dislikes. Even the people who don? t like these types o...
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Calvin Klein Hip Hop
862 wordsThrough Your Eyes And Into Life Since the dawning of a new era of people called Generation X, aspects of American popular culture have been altered. The emergence of mass media is one of the most common and most important sources of learning for children and teens. A forefront for all media in this new era is the sexual content that exists. Teenagers and young adults are dressing more lewdly and are engaging in unprotected sex with numerous partners because of the influence of the media. I belie...
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Hip Hop Hard Times
684 wordsIt is not typical that hip hop music is viewed to be a form of art. It has received a great deal of negative publicity since becoming mainstream in the early to mid 1980 s. It is believed, by many, that the lyrical content of this type of music deals with only guns, alcohol, sex, violence, and crime. It is understandable for them to have these beliefs, because there was a period of time when that was true. Though there are still the artists whose lyrics say very little; recently, hip hop has bec...
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