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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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Snoop Doggy Dogg Gangster Rap
3,673 wordsWhen you listen to a rap song, what are you listing to? You are listening to words that kids shouldnt listen to. All you hear are explicit lyrics. This kind of music is being sold to young children without any thought or concern. When many children listen to this kind of music they think that was being said in the songs is not wrong or against the law. The lyrics in many songs contain violent and explicit lyrics that usually talk about killing someone along with sounds of gunshots in the backgro...
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Hip Hop Culture Make A Profit
1,881 wordsWhen you hear the phrase "Hip-Hop", music, dancing, rapping often come to mind. Well, it's all of that and more... Hip-Hop is a culture. According to Webster's dictionary, culture is defined as "the concepts, habits, skills, arts, instruments, institutions, etc. of a given people in a given period; civilization. " One artist defined Hip-Hop as "a set of expressions in vocalization, instrumentation, dancing and the visual arts. " More specifically, hip hop is a combination of graffiti, break danc...
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Rap Music Break Dancing
3,653 wordsRap music is truly an American minority artist creation of which students need to be proud. Unfortunately, rap music is not perceived by many Americans as an art form, but as a fad which they hope will soon fade away. One of my intentions with my unit is to show that rap music is not a fad, but a musical art form that has been around for over 20 years in the United States. In fact, one can trace the history of rap back to the West African professional singers / storytellers known as Griots. Howe...
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American History Of Hip Hop Culture
1,378 wordsHip-hop culture developed during the seventies. Throughout its formation, the various elements were at some time or another, deemed unacceptable. Graffiti artists faced jail sentences, break dancing became illegal in some areas, and rap music has been severely criticized for various reasons. These elements were never analyzed in an oppositional manner until recently, however. Hip-hop culture represented the claiming of urban communities by the residents. Writers decorated the empty walls of thei...
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The Origins Of Hip Hop And Rap
1,025 words... n to the frightening demeanor of gangster rap. Although their lyrics seemed excessive and overly abrasive, N. W. A. provided America with a picture of the destitute conditions of the urban ghettos, and the dangerous lifestyle that many of the African American youth fell victim to as a result of their dire circumstances. In 1991, N. W. A. released their sophomore album Niggaz 4 Life, which sold 945, 000 copies in its first few weeks of release, and reached the number one position on the Billb...
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Hip Hop Culture Hip Hop Music
896 wordsDespite the tremendous growth of hip hop music during the late 1980 s, it was not until the early 1990 s that the first album of Tanzanian rap appeared. Saleh Aljabry (otherwise known as Saleh J) released the first Tanzanian rap album, Swahili Rap. The album immediately became a sensation all over the country and, in many ways, set a high standard for future Tanzanian tappers. Most of the songs were based on the music and rhythms of American artists, such as Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" and Naug...
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Racial Intolerance Gangster Rap
2,804 wordsVictor Lopez English 1, Section 1710 Argumentation/Persuasion Research Paper Music is Your Attitude Introduction The issue of racial hate is becoming more and more acute in contemporary America. And this is happening at the same time, when we are being told that the our multicultural society is becoming more tolerant, since the cultural diversity is being enforced now... Apparently, something is rotten in the kingdom of Denmark, as the famous saying goes. Despite our government's best efforts, t...
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Hip Hop Culture Hip Hop Music
2,096 wordsAnalytical Paper The hip hop culture has permeated popular culture in an unprecedented fashion. Because of its enormous crossover appeal, the hip hop culture is a potentially great unifier of diverse populations. Although created by black youth on the street, hip hop's influence has become worldwide. Approximately 75 % of the rap and hip hop audience is non black. It has gone from the fringes, to the suburbs, and into the corporate boardrooms. Indeed, McDonald's, Coca Cola, Sprite, Nike, and oth...
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Rap And Soul Music
635 wordsRap and Soul Music Music has always been around from the beginning of time. It has grown from stage to stage over the past decades. Different decades carry along their different memories of music. The type of music listened to in the seventies, eighties and nineties, have their obvious differences. Nowadays, in the 21 st century, the two most popular forms of music are Rap and Soul. Although rap and soul both require a lot of time, money and talent to create, soul music is more complicated, infl...
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Visual And Audio Materials In Hip Hop Industry
1,746 wordsVisual and Audio Materials in Hip-Hop Industry Hip hop music and culture, once considered an American phenomenon, exists throughout the world today. In each cultural area, hip hop artists filter American and other foreign hip hop styles through their own local musical, social, and linguistic practices, creating unique musical forms. In this paper I will attempt to evaluate the visual and audio characteristics that contribute to the culture of hip-hop and produce the image of the aforementioned s...
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Rap Musics Negative Influence On Children Today
2,189 wordsRap Musics Negative Influence on Children Today Rap music influences children in several different ways these days. Many people feel it can persuade people to do violent acts or sets a bad example. The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) says that, listening to rap music leads to antisocial behavior like juvenile delinquency, breakup of the family, rise in satanic cults, and teen suicide. (PMRC# 3) Many suicides and cases of adolescent depression are blamed on a certain bands songs and or image...
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Martin Luther King L A Times
3,042 wordsValues and Censorship Stacey Hawkins Values and Ethics 2 - 11 - 99 Censorship In the Media and In Music Censorship is not always protected by the first amendment. Obscenity is just one of the action not protected by the first amendment. There are limitations on the right of free speech. ? The word? censorship? means prior restraint of First Amendment rights by government. ? (Enforcement) Some say that there are some things that people should not know about situations that are going on in the wor...
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Freedom Of Speech Tupac Shakur
1,237 wordsMichelle White English 101 Sec 43 Censorship of Rap Music: America, land of the free or home of the enslaved? The First Amendment states congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion on prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the light of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. (Quoted from web) This amendment includes anything that allows people to express themselves fre...
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Snoop Doggy Dogg Hip Hop Music
1,078 wordsGangster rap May 05, 1999 Hip-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 infl...
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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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Love Rap Music Reason That I Love Rap Helps
521 wordsI Love Rap Music From Raps humble beginnings as music African American slaves made to make life on the hot plantations better to todays Multi-Million dollar moguls Rap has sure come a long way. I love Rap Music. There is no other way to put it. Everyone has a right to his own likes and dislikes of a particular music genre. That is not to say that I dont like other types of music. I just prefer Rap music. One reason that I love Rap Music is because it elevates my concentration when I am working o...
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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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Hip Hop Culture Men And Women
988 wordsRunning Head: MUSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF RAP Musical Characteristics of Rap Paper 1 Jesse Lipscomb e Morehouse College Musical Characteristics of Rap Hip-hop culture, once confined to the streets has broken into the commercial realm with force. Hip hop records top the charts week after week, rap videos have taken control of MTV, BET and the BOX, and there are dozens of hip hop magazines on the newsstands. A stroll on any city street in the United States reveals the proliferation of hip-hop style...
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Hip Hop Culture Older Generations
2,510 wordsHip Hop &# 038; The Origin of Rap Music Nowadays if you ask most people to give a definition of rap, theyre likely to state that its the reciting of rhymes to the best of music. Its a form of expression that finds its roots imbedded deep within ancient African culture and oral tradition. Throughout history here in America there has always been some form of verbal acrobatics or jousting involving rhymes within the Afro-American community. Signifying, testifying, Shining of the Titanic, the Dozens...
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