when the world was introduced to "Gangsta Rap‚" where violent acts and suggestions are graphically portrayed (yale). The notorious rap group responsible for the introduction of gangsta rap was NWA (bomp). Gangsta rap has been criticized and debated over for its graphic sexual content‚ and violent imagery (yale). The lyrics in many songs contain violent and explicit lyrics that usually talk about killing someone along with sounds of gunshots in the background. Gangsta rap also talks about drug use and
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that “gangsta rap” is to blame for its influence in the violence‚ female discrimination and violent behavior that take place throughout America‚ others argue that it is simply the other way around‚ implying that the artist is influenced by his own personal experience of being a part of and/or bearing witness to violence‚ drugs and crime that have taken place around him thus influencing him to express himself through lyric and rhyme becoming “gangsta rap”. This leaves us to question does gangsta rap
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used by Run-DMC‚ Beastie Boys‚ LL Cool J‚ Public Enemy‚ Kanye West……etc. The second reason that New School Rap become popular is because of a new style of gangsta rap. Gangsta rap is shaped by themes of violence‚ sexism and misogyny‚ police brutality‚ and other long-standing political critiques of urban society. (Prier‚ Darius D‚ 2012) The gangsta rap was started by the late 1980s and became popular. The pioneers are Schoolly D and Ice-T. Each theme has a different
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IS STREET CRIME MORE HARMFUL THAN WHITE COLLAR CRIME? Is Street Crime More Harmful than White Collar Crime? By general definition‚ a crime is a wronging‚ proclaimed by law against society. All acts of disobeying the law are crimes. Be it an assault or embezzlement one has committed a wrong. Yet we have learned values and morals from our surroundings which gave us concepts of the degree of harm pertaining to a particular crime. From our being submerged in a culture‚ our concept of crime is usually
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The assigned class readings looked at several instances of “identity in flux” in the views of feminist artist. I would define “identity in flux” as a movement of change within an individual’s identity in order to conform to a desired societal group. On the other hand‚ it is also a movement of change of identity to conform to an undesired societal group. The “identity in flux” can take many forms; such as‚ identification‚ misidentification‚ and disidentification. In this essay‚ I will be examining
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borrowed from the styles of early rap and hip-hop yet its appeal rested in Tupac himself. His persona of "Thug Poet" opened up a portal into the new genre of "Gangsta Rap." This new style of music revolutionized the music industry and allowed several new artists to break through in Tupac’s creation‚ Gangsta Rap. 	Tupac Amaru Shakur was born on June 16‚ 1971 in New York. Afeni Shakur‚ a Black Panther member since 1968‚ gave birth to him in the Women’s House of Detentions in
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influenced the way we dress‚ speak and socialize. The emergence of "gangsta rap" in the 1980s marked the beginning of some disintegration of the positive images in hip-hop culture Popular rap‚ as it is today‚ formed in the 1980s‚ and has since influenced everything from folk music to heavy metal. It has ties leading back to Africa and Jamaica‚ where there was an emphasis on lyrical content and drumbeats. Glorifying Violence Gangsta rap is a hip-hop genre that focuses primarily on the negative aspects
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Plan of Investigation It is through Gangsta Rap subgenre of Hip-Hop‚ that the question: “What were the underlying cultural reasons for the Los Angeles Riots of 1992?” can be answered. This paper will examine rap lyrics from prominent Los Angeles Hip-Hop acts in order to investigate the deteriorating rapport between the city’s oft-biased police department and the city’s increasingly restless black urban youth‚ from the perspective of the latter group. These lyrics will be juxtaposed with statements
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music was in its early stages‚ it was already on its way to evolution as artists added their own feel to it. Rappers began telling their stories in different ways‚ bringing the six categories of rap to life. Rap falls into six primary categories; “gangsta‚” which focuses mainly on murder‚ money and chaos; apolitical pop‚ which has easygoing lyrics and a nice danceable beat; political‚ whose main focuses are social problems as they analyze what is going on in their communities. The message is usually
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been a slight decline from the statistics in 1995(OJJDP). What was the cause for this uprise in juvenile delinquincy? I will discuss 2 different theories to why there was such an increase in juvenile crime rates. I will analyze the rise of the "Gangsta-Rap" culture in the early 1990 ’s and how it may have affected teenagers that are in lower- income families. Many people believe that the increase in real life violence on television is a cause for violence in juveniles. I will discuss the evidence
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