Jordan Royse According to KRS One‚ Hip Hop fashion is one of the nine "extended" elements of hip-hop culture. Hip-hop fashion refers to a particular style of dress that originated with African-American and Latino people in New York City. Hip hop fashion has changed drastically over the years. During the 1980s‚ major hip-hop stars of like Run-DMC and LL Cool J wore things like large glasses‚ kangol hats‚ multi-finger rings‚ and sneakers. Artists such as Kurtis Blow and Big Daddy
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Race in Hip Hop It is a common belief that hip hop has served as the medium for healing racial tension in the 21st century. Although the hip hop industry has seen a subtle wave of successful white American rappers over the past couple of decades‚ this is not enough to suggest a racial merge in the predominately black American world of hip hop. White Americans are not typically welcomed into the hip hop community. The few white American rappers that have made it big in the hip hop industry
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“Divorced from skin color‚ sound quality‚ scene or history‚ Hip-Hop (and therefore its more prolific offspring‚ rap) and punk share every important defining factor: heavy bassline‚ repetitive and melodically simple or devoid vocals focused on internal rhyme‚ minimalistic instrumental hooks‚ and lyrics about nihilism‚ social concern‚ poverty and oppression”(Ross Hsu). Hsu asserts that despite the fact that Hip-Hop and punk have different cultural and historical backgrounds‚ they are similar because
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Hip-hop music has been a part of my musical repertoire from early adolescence‚ and more recently‚ an art form I have been interested in exploring from a more critical and academic perspective. I’ve wanted to extend my knowledge beyond hip-hop as a pastime and into hip-hop as a social tool with the power to create‚ reproduce‚ and challenge dominant social life. This consideration facilitated my research question: “How is homosexuality represented in hip-hop music and communities?” Due to hip-hop’s
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Hip-Hop’s Media Effects ------------------------------------------------- Term Paper Javier Sanchez Hip-Hop’s Media Effects ------------------------------------------------- Term Paper Javier Sanchez Music. What do you think of when you think of music? Do you think of your favorite singer/ band‚ or maybe your favorite song at the time; but how often do you think about how that one song‚ or artist(s) have affected your life‚ your outlook on politics‚ society‚ way of living or way of seeing
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Surname 5 Name: Instructor: Course: Date: Gang. Skeleton draft. The hip hop subculture is a way of life tethered to and popularized by the widespread practice of rap music. It originates from the African American community. It is expressed through flashy modes of dressing‚ graffiti art forms‚ break dancing‚ and slang. However‚ with the passage of time‚ the culture has traversed racial and cultural lines and has become one of the most practiced genres of music throughout the world‚ with an
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draft Many Hip Hop Star Influence Teens Have you ever wanted to be like a hip hop star? Many teenagers choose hip hop star as their role model because that’s all they see and like the way they dress and act. Hip Hop stars influence teenagers in this century by the things they sing or rap in songs‚ how they dress‚ and what they do. Hip Hop singers and rappers influence teenagers in their music of today. Ever since the rise of rap and hip-hip music‚ teen have been turning to Hip Hop Stars music
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Place Hip hop is a form of art that has been popular for the past twenty years. Although people in recent years often mistake rap music as vulgar and ill-mannered‚ the hip hop community continues to provide a great way to channel emotion and soul into their music. In his article‚ “The State of Rap: Time and Place” Jeffrey Louis Decker illustrates the black nationalism within the hip hop community by exploring how Black Nationalism can be accounted for within the hip hop music. Before hip hop was
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Quitting Hip-Hop Quitting Hip-Hop is about a woman named Michaela Angela Davis who can no longer reconcile her love of a great rap beat with the derogatory images of women pervasive in much of today’s music and videos. This article address’ the intended audience of parents and teens‚ it will inform the negative influence hip hop music videos has on society‚ and how she gets through the struggles of how she was a part of that influence. I believe the audience intended to read this article
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“This movement started to expose people to new music but ended up becoming a multi-billion dollar industry” according to DMC of Run- D.M.C. (Jalal 1). The Hip-Hop movement started in 1973 by 3 men your parents probably know about. It started to expose people to other types of music. The Hip-Hop Movement will discuss‚ the people who started the Hip-Hop movement and whom is affected‚ the purpose of the movement and what it hopes to achieve. First off‚ it was started in 1973 by Grandmaster Flash‚ Afrika
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