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Patently Offensive Legally Obscene
5,385 words... to Sound Warehouse, a record store in Broward County, and bought a cassette version of the "Nasty" recording. He listened to the album, had six of its songs transcribed, and prepared an affidavit stating these facts. On February 28, 1990, Deputy Wichner sent the affidavit, the transcripts, and a copy of the "Nasty" tape to Judge Mel Grossman of the Broward County Circuit Court, requesting that the judge find probable cause that "Nasty" was legally obscene. On March 9, Judge Grossman issued a...
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Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru
1,172 wordsFrom cool jazz to Chicago blues, gospel to R&B, reggae, and gangsta rap. For a century, African-Americans, Blacks, Negro's 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. Rap's 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 performed ac...
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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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Influence On Pop Culture
904 wordsInfluence of Pop Culture Over my last nineteen years, I have not noticed how much pop culture influences the youth of today. I have always thought people did what they wanted to do when they wanted to do it, not because of the way the society imposes a way for people to live. Pop culture is the culture is the way of life of the youthful generation of that particular time and era. In addition, many things influence pop culture. However, the two most influential things are television and music. An...
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2 Live Crew Rage Against The Machine
1,466 wordsCensorship in music has been a major problem plaguing America since the early nineteen forties. It came to a head during the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were getting the brunt of the censorship heat. Now in the nineteen nineties the major focus of censorship is rap; primarily gangster rap. Some of the main factors of music in general that cause legal ramifications are sexual content, suggestiv...
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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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Marshall Mathers Lp Rolling Stone Magazine
1,874 wordsHe Didnt Just Say What I Think He Did. Did He? Im like a head trip to listen to cuz I'm only giving you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room. The only difference is I got the BALLS to say it in front of yawl, and I dont got to be false or sugarcoated at all. I just get on the mic and spit it. Whether you like to admit it, I just censored it better than 90 % of you rappers out here. Then you wonder how can kids eat these albums, like volumes. It's funny cuz at that rate...
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John Stuart Mill Parents Music Resource
5,071 wordsOur society today largely views censorship as a method that has disappeared from liberal cultures since the enlightenment with the exception of restrictions in time of war. The enlightenment served to cripple the intolerance of incisive religious and government leaders, but did not obliterate censorship altogether. Instead, the job of expurgating unacceptable ideas has simply fallen into new hands using new tactics. Censors now assume the guise of capitalist retailers and distributors, special-i...
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Tipper Gore Juvenile Delinquency
5,065 words... g. The Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography stated: ... efforts to restrict or censor have the psychological effect of increasing the desirability of the material. Increasing the difficulty of obtaining erotic materials, harassing and punishing pornographers and purveyors of pornography, setting minimum age limits for the purchase of these materials, and so on, may have the unwanted effect of increasing interest in the materials, rendering them more desirable, and ...
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Marilyn Manson Heavy Metal
1,314 wordsHealthy debates have been caused by today's music. Generally, foul language has rapidly increased within modern popular song lyrics, especially among rap and heavy metal artists's ong's. 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 son's incident. ''When his wife went to wake their son for school, they found him dead...
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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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Ice Cube Warning Labels
1,071 wordsThe beginnings of rap are believed to based on African rhythms which were used as a form of communication by the native peoples. The lyrical component of rap music is thought to have been greatly influenced by Cab Calloway with his repetitive chants and scats, along with his call-and-response technique with the audience. Rap evolved and gained in popularity in the 1960 's when a few revolutionary "DJ's, " including Kool DJ Herc, DJ Love bug Stars, and DJ Hollywood, began to work block parties in...
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Gangsta Rap Rap Artists
2,093 words... wd rise to the challenge with more cheers and screams. Thus the tone of the album is established. She Watch Channel Zero? ! begins with Flavor Flav shouting: Youre blind, baby, youre blind from the facts of who you are cause youre watching that garbage. Flavor is not usually a rapper outright, instead restricting his contributions to short, sneering, seemingly improvised rants like the one that introduces this song. As Tricia Rose says, he is effectively a news activist, his role is to tell ...
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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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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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Marshall Mathers Lp Parents Music Resource Center
2,642 wordsSays Who? Citizenship in America holds many rights. Among these rights are the right to vote, the right to bear arms, and the most widely treasured but largely manipulated, right to free speech. As a citizen of America the right to free speech comes along with many responsibilities, but for the small percentage that exercise their right of free speech to a large public forum, it comes with many stipulations. The more prominent figures under a barrage of criticism are those involved in the arts. ...
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Marshall Mathers Lp Rolling Stone Magazine
1,930 wordsHe Didn? t Just Say What I Think He Did. Did He? ? I? m like a head trip to listen to cuz Im only giving you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room. The only difference is I got the BALLS to say it in front of yawl, and I don? t got to be false or sugarcoated at all. I just get on the mic and spit it. Whether you like to admit it, I just censored it better than 90 % of you rappers out here. Then you wonder how can kids eat these albums, like volumes. Its funny cuz at tha...
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Life In General Ozzy Osbourne
1,614 wordsMusic has been around for thousands and thousands of years. The caveman had originally started some type of sounds in which branched off into the music that we listen to today. This prehistoric music was started by the cavemen in order for them to express themselves, and the others who listened were affected in the same way that people are affected by music today. For example, if someone is upset they will listen to something that will get them into a better mood, perhaps something mellow or sof...
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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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Hip Hop Culture Young Black Men
1,143 wordsWalking the tight rope The recent murder of Tupac Shakur is a great tragedy and a waste of a young, promising life. Shakur at only 25 years-old had come to represent a volatile mixture of youthful energy, exuberance, arrogance, self-confidence and, at times, foolishness. He represented possibility on the one hand and self-destruction on the other. What mustnt be overlooked as the Hip-Hop Community mourns his loss is that there are many young Black men like Tupac Shakur who although less well-kno...
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