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Gangsta Rap Promote Violence
1,289 words
Rap 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 words
It'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
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Heavy 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
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Rahzel 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
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... 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
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The 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 words
There'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 words
You 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 words
Wow 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
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... 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 words
We 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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' Amp B B
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Riley 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 words
Art 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 words
Charles 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 words
George 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 words
Had 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 words
Shown 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 words
Music 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 words
Stoned 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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