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    Music Lyrics being NON-VIOLENT Rap music can be considered a style of art‚ and a way for the artists to express feelings through their words on paper. However‚ there are quite a few rap artists that get criticized for their lyrics. In my essay‚ I want to discuss why rappers use certain lyrics in their music and why people shouldn’t believe that it causes violence among the younger generations. People shouldn’t censor the music just because of violent‚ vulgar and abusive messages it promotes to the

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    fashion has always remained conceptually unchanged. This has given birth to a few varieties among Hip Hop fashion according to their respective generations and choice of self-expression through the four pillars of Hip Hop which are Bboying (dance)‚ MC/Rap (music)‚ DJ (music) and Graffiti Art (visual art). The varieties of fashion within the Punk culture differ from Hip Hop in a different aspect. While Hip Hop’s fashion alternatives were born from historical factors within the cultural aspects‚ Punk’s

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    Ashford University AN101 Locating Scholarly Articles Assignment The words have Changed Thesis: This article dispels the stereotype that gangster rap music is misogynistic through an analysis of lyrics that shows respect for women. Feminizing and Juvenilizing Poverty Thesis: This article demonstrates that women and children are the poorest demongraphic in the US‚ but that the risks of poverty decreased between 1950 and 1980‚ particularly in comparison with Canadians. Boundary of Religious

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    American hip hop group from Detroit‚ Michigan - D12‚ discussed the beginnings of the American rapper‚ record producer‚ and actor - Eminem‚ saying that individuals thought that Marshall Bruce "Eminem" Mathers III was black when they first heard him rap. The hip hop group D12 was formed in 1996 in the hometown of Eminem (who is the other half of the hip-hop duo Bad Meets Evil)‚ and apparently became famous following the subsequent success of Eminem. Hip-hop artist Kuniva‚ who is a member of D12‚

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    Sex and images of hypersexualization of women are common in many popular rap songs. In “Lollipop” by Lil Wayne the lyrics are:“But man I ain’t never seen an a** like hers/That p***y in my mouth had me at a loss for words/I told her to back it up like burp burp/And make that a** jump like shczerp shczerp. (Metreolyrics). Then

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    that Rap and Hip/Hop are the kind of music they listen to due to its sudden popularity and admiration of mainstream music. Not only that but‚ it has broken barriers for censorship in Rap music. “Rap music has had little impact from the use of censorship because the artists have not yet been impaired by it. The need for cleaner rap music has arisen and left a very small dent in the rap world. The degrading words and phrases and the explicit language may or may not stay within the culture of rap music

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    VH1. The aim of these music videos is to market and promote different artists through the use of visual appeals. Gangster rap‚ a subgenre Hip-Hop music‚ presents violence‚ homophobia‚ and sexism in its lyrical content. This type of music presents the youth with an ideal identity‚ one that is consumed with money‚ cars‚ drugs‚ and multiple women performing sexual favors. Gangster rap videos usually focus on the buttocks‚ hips‚ and breast of women‚ (specifically black women). These videos depict black

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    Back then‚ when I hear “Hip Hop”‚ I associated it with egoistic rappers and gang violence. It was my least favorite music genre because rap artists only rap about their shopping list and other meaningless topics. It came to the point where I asked‚ “What is Hip Hop?” I was so curious that I decided to use it as an English research topic. From that point on‚ my opinion on Hip Hop changed completely due to the fact that there’s more to it. As I researched on what Hip Hop is‚ I found out that it isn’t

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    Meanwhile his co-workers‚ Michael and Samir (and various others) are set to be terminated. Luckily‚ Peter’s loyalty remains with his co-workers‚ giving way to class consciousness. This is when the use of gangster rap begins to reach its influential height in the film. 90s West Coast gangster rap has its roots in a specific counterculture; one that is far removed from mainstream American ideology. It is essentially the polar opposite of the film’s suit-and-tie bureaucratic office setting. The main characters

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    it better‚ clearer‚ more interesting – even if you think the main argument is “good enough.” -In this essay‚ I will use a generic criticism of political hip hop and gangster rap music to argue that as a rhetorical hybrid‚ GKMC is in a unique position to self reflexively deconstruct several of the tropes engrained in rap music. –The thesis is somewhat clearly worded‚ but made me a little confused when it mentions GKMC being in a “unique position” as to what the author meant. –The thesis is in a

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