Rap was first known as “Hip Hop”. It was first created between 1960-1970 by African American and Latino youth living in the Bronx in New York. These youths were living in very poor conditions in the gang infested inner city. Originally it allowed these economically challenged youth to fantasize about getting out of poverty. It was a “rags to riches”. They were living in very violent areas and there was also a lot of gang activity. Hip Hop also exploited young African American girls and encouraged
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Amber Howard WRA 150 October 3‚ 2012 Cultural Artifact: Procrastination As a college student‚ I can’t help but to notice how easily distracted students can get due to social networks like Facebook and Twitter. For a fact I know I have been distracted due to social networking like Twitter. I tweet an average of over 200 tweets per day. Twitter is so distracting that hours can go by and I will not notice that it has been that long. I get so distracted by all the gossip in the media‚ and wondering
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The Hip Hop Defense Everyone has an opinion about the influence of hip--hop music on our nations youth. Many people‚ such as politicians and the ultra conservative‚ feel the influence is destructive and incites violent behavior. Some people‚ for instance the media‚ believe hip- hop glamorizes inappropriate behaviors and actions while promoting the demoralization of women in general‚ but more specifically black women. Few people are willing to speak out and defend hip-hop music as communicative
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Hip-hop is one of the most diverse dance. Much of early hip-hop was unrecorded because hip-hop culture was very experimental and many considered it just messing around.(The origins of hip-hop 26) Hip-hop was invented in the mid-1970’s by many people. It was first seen on the streets of New York. Grandmaster Flash was one of the inventors of hip-hop. (The Break Master) Many people created hip-hop on the streets of New York in the mid-1970’s. Hip-hop was first seen on the streets of New York. “I
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dance! It is my favorite thing to do. Hip-Hop dance is the most I like. If you can do the moves in hip hop‚ you will be more flexible for those other kind of dance such as ballet. It is a lot of fun‚ and you can look “bad” and scare people away by dancing. There are various other popular dance styles used with hip-hop dance‚ which include breaking‚ popping and locking. Breaking is a kind of street dance. It is also dances by people who are part of the hip hop culture. Breaking is more for a male
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Hip-hop is one of the biggest and popular music genres in the world. Hip Hop is a genre that a person on a microphone is rhyming over a beat. Hip-Hop has been around over 40 years and has created different movement throughout the years. A few movements are the Native tongues‚ Roc a fella‚ and Young money. But the biggest movement is when Hip Hop all started. When Hip-Hop first came out‚ it helped all the African American unified with one another and even Puerto Ricans. To begin with‚ Kool Herc created
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Hip-hop Many view the influence of hip hop music and culture as negative‚ degrading‚ promoting crime and generating‚ a generation of reckless young individuals. I was among the many‚ however after viewing the documentary of “The Art of Rap” my perception has slightly changed. The five elements of hip hop which is knowledge‚ writing‚ emceeing‚ rhyming‚ and style‚ does make hip hop an art indeed‚ which I think‚ many artists have not considered the impact. So much of the language is degrading to
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Evolution of Hip-hop Hip-hop has many credited fathers; all who have enhanced hip-hop-adding their own style and feel to the new more relatable sound. Hip-hop began as a solution for young people who could not relate to other genres of music such as‚ funk‚ soul‚ and disco. As more faces joined the evolution‚ hip-hop changed and transformed into something much larger than anyone could have ever imagined Despite what the media or rumors state‚ hip-hop originated in the poverty-ridden streets of Bronx
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Hip Hop America Nelson George’s Hip Hop America discusses the nature of hip hop along with the relationship between African Americans and America. Many take the idea of hip hop to be just African Americans and rap music. George continually focuses on hip hop’s many contradictions. He addresses how hip hop represents race‚ ethnicity‚ class‚ gender‚ and generation. George covers much familiar ground: how B-beats became hip hop; how technology changed popular music‚ which helped to create new technologies;
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“Woman in Hip-Hop” Although hip-hop generally contains male emcees‚ there has been a plethora of female emcees in the earlier hip-hop days that have made a positive impact on the hip-hop community and the culture itself. Hip-Hop started in 1970 by DJ Kool Herc‚ but it wasn’t until 1979 that the first female emcee emerged. Her name was Wendy Clark A.K.A “Lady B”. She began spinning hip-hop records on WHAT 1340 AM in Philadelphia. She expanded hip-hop outside of New York to Philadelphia.
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