Summary Of The Commercialization Of Hip Hop

Hip hop can be seen as a cultural movement emerging from the south Bronx, Hip hop was Hip-Hop fundamental as both a creative outlet for expressing the struggles of life amidst prevailing crime and violence as well as an enjoyable form of recreation. The music was used as a means to spread the word about oppression and struggles of the black community, because of its popularity hip hop music continued its spread through the 2000s, it was also increasingly seen in mainstream pop. In this essay I will be looking at the artist Kendrick Lamar, his claim to authenticity and the message he tries to put forth in his music. In history, the African American experience of institutionalised racism is frequently incorporated into hip-hop and in socially
Although this could be argued that that is what hip hop was about in the past and now it means something different, Anytime someone talks about the features that comprise authentic hip hop most of its qualifications are rooted in a nostalgic version of hip hop as it was at its onset instead of the more dynamic understanding of what it has become over time and the introduction of popular
He is able to portray himself as an “everyman.” In his music by really situating the listener in his life by really rapping in details and lucid commentary about the place he grew up in and talks to the African-American community. His music isn’t loud, or noisey about having chicks and money and he wasn’t really recognized for a while until he realised “m.a.a.d city” which really made him popular but because of his everyman act he feels relatable to audiences earning him plenty of fans, and critics who adore him. On good kid, in “m.A.A.d city”, Kendrick Lamar tells a story, he narrates the story of how he got sucked into gang warfare as a Compton adolescent and how he eventually escaped. His next album “To Pimp a Butterfly” is very different in this album Kendrick Lamar seems to be scattered talking and berating himself, the story in this album is much more serious he makes reference to some people killed by the cops