panthers post civil rights movement (Price‚ 2006). Hip Hop has become a dominant global youth culture with music‚ art‚ fashion‚ films and Tupac an icon within this culture a “Black Elvis”. Hip Hop has many different sub genres such as conscious‚ gangsta‚ party rap and with emcees in the different genres according to their subject matter. The paper will explore Changes a conscious rap song that was recorded by Tupac in 1992‚ at a time when African Americans were affected by the beating of Rodney King
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N.W.A (an abbreviation of Niggaz Wit Attitudes)[1][2][3] was an American hip hop group from Compton‚ California‚ widely considered one of the seminal acts of the gangsta rap and west coast hip hop sub-genres‚ sometimes credited as the most important group in the history of rap music.[4] Active from 1986 to 1991‚ the rap group endured controversy due to the explicit lyrics that many considered to be disrespectful to women‚ and glorifying drugs and crime. The group was subsequently banned from many
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topic is how the Trinity has come to shape or define how we‚ the public define hip-hop. The Trinity is the idea of how hip-hop has become ill or sick due to the fact that it has evolved from the old traditional days into the new pimp‚ “ho“‚ and “gangsta” type of hip-hop. In my paper I will diagnose what the you would consider the original thoughts were of hip-hop and how they have been altered. The thought back then for what we know now wasn’t close to anything like it is now days. There was a
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entertainment in the overwhelming majority of Hip-Hop videos. The stereotypical persona of “The Buck” in the videos is the Gangsta/Thug and “The Jezebel/Mulattoe” is the Bitch/Ho— both are slavery created stereotypes. The Jezebel/Mulatto (Bitch/Ho) The Buck (Gangsta/Thug) Another aspect of this movie relevant to Hip-hop culture is the word “nigger”‚ used incessantly in the movie‚ just
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guns‚ is hard to believe that one of the greatest and famous rappers in the world would change from one day to other. The dog became a lion‚ those lyrics that used to talk about money and drug dealing now talk about peace‚ love and forgiveness‚ the gangsta rapper that everybody know had change to a Rastafarian. Snoop Dogg is on the top ten best rappers in history‚ well recognized by his hits and songs with other greatest rappers like Dr. Dree and 50 Cent. Nobody in the world would imagine that one
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their lives‚ but while doing this‚ they also use an abundance of profanity‚ make many references about violence‚ and sometimes even killing. Snoop Dogg is a rapper who is guilty of doing this. John Leland‚ author of the article “Criminal Records: Gangsta rap and the culture of violence” says that “Snoop Doggy Dogg is not everyone’s idea of a role model”(Leland‚ 1993). Kids in today’s age that listen to this type of music think otherwise however. “Rappers may send a specific message to certain people”(Leland
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attack our women and promote violence. We must encourage the proper use of hip-hop culture. We are all influenced by the hip-hop generation." Sharpton‚ who recently hosted a special summit on social responsibility in the hip-hop industry‚ labeled gangsta rappers "well-paid slaves." Advertisement "Don’t let some record executive tell you that cursing out your mama is in style. Anytime you perpetuate a slave mentality that desecrates women and that desecrates our race in the name of a record.... I consider
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several unsuccessful operations. Tupac Amaru‚ or 2Pac‚ as he spelled it --distinguishing him from the violent Peruvian terrorist group of the same name-- was one of today’s most popular "gangsta rappers." His lyrics are usually vulgar‚ offensive‚ and explicit‚ and glorify the type of life that he and many other gangsta rappers lead. They depict violence‚ drug use‚ crime and sexual abuse as
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and the other one is Amish. The Amish song talks about how they harvest‚ feed the chickens‚ churn butter‚ how they don’t like electricity‚ they talk about how their doing chores how they have a bible in their hand and a beard on their chin. The gangstas song is talking about how their violent there’s one verse where he says as he grows he sees himself in pistol smoke it’s mostly talk about how he has money on his mind. He uses a lot of slang like chasin’‚ trippin’‚ livin’‚ spendin’‚ lookin’‚ cookin’
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Ja’len Pompey 09/16/14 English 100-02 Prof. Jackson It’s Not the Music‚ It’s Probably Just You Many people assume that the reason why young‚ African-American teens behave a certain way is because of the music they listen to these days. The music that these urban kids are listening to is primarily Hip Hop which is if you don’t know is a genre of music that is characterized by a performer speaking rhythmically‚ or rapping‚ over a backing track that often but not always consists of loops
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