Music is truly an American artistic creation that all of us should be proud of. Unfortunately‚ we have two music types which in their beginnings were thought as a “Fly by Night” art. Thanks to the strong support‚ given by the loyal individuals who started these art forms; we are still blessed with a creative ingenuity of music called Rap‚ Country & Western. There are many similarities between rap and country & western (C&W). Primarily‚ the two genres of music have a strong
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to recognize these problems that this nation faced and still faces today. They made songs soulie focused on fixing political and social issues. Turning rap into an alternative genre‚ or also known as conscious rap. Conscious rap is a subgenre of Hip-Hop that puts awareness and knowledge on cultural‚ political‚ philosophical‚ and economic issues we face (Reference). It seemed like at the time‚ many rappers were taking this responsibility by bringing these topics into their versus and getting their
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excellent student and athlete‚ Knight went to college on a sports scholarship‚ and played football as a replacement player for the ‘Oakland Raiders’ during the ‘NF’L strike of the early 1980′s. He then retired from professional sports and entered the music industry as a celebrity bodyguard‚ working for Bobby Brown amongst others‚ after his limited success as a professional footballer. During this period of body guarding‚ according to him‚ he learned that “the key to artistic and financial freedom is
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create controversy. Another subclaim talks about how society only cares about sexism when white youth use black popular culture to disrupt the values of the white elite. Because this piece was written in 1994‚ hooks analyzes gangsta rap‚ a popular music genre in the 90s‚ and provides examples of movies and songs that were relevant at the time as evidence to support her argument. The target audience consists of black feminists in 1994 and consumers and critics of gangsta rap who have been influenced
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ideal target market for a variety of reasons. One reason being that Black Generation Xers launched hip-hop‚ which has become a cultural value. Stereotypically speaking‚ African Americans listen to hip-hop and rap. These genres of music have heavy beats and have a lot of bass; which is also a value of Beats by Dre. Due to this value system‚ Generation Z is highly accustomed to value these types of music. Also‚ Generation Zers are heavily invested in technology. Also‚ these consumer preferences amongst
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founded in 2006 by the rapper and hip-hop producer Dr Dre and Jimmy Iovine‚ the Interscope-Geffen-A&M Records chairman. Its headquarter is in Culver City‚ California‚ USA. It is a company which produces high quality audio products such as headphones‚ earphones or speakers but also a software called Beats Audio as well as a streaming music service called Beats Music. Dr Dre came with the fact that listeners‚ with most headphones‚ were not able to listen properly to music. He stated that Beats audio
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Dre. Beats by Dre has a number of owners who have a share in the brand‚ Jimmy Lovine‚ Universal Music Group and HTC Corporation all have shares of the brand. Furthermore HTC owns 51% of the shares of Beats by Dre. They also use the brand in their own products to help promote it more. (Guardian‚ The 2012: online) “Dr. Dre hasn’t made music for a really long time; however he is the richest Hip Hop artist currently because of the headphones brand”. (Newsbeat‚ BBC 2012: online) According to the
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Straight Outta Compton is a must see movie based on a hip-hop group‚ NWA. The Setting took place in in 1986‚ Compton L.A. (Los Angeles). The group included five great new actors‚ playing the main portraying the members from NWA. The movie reflected on how the group started their rap career‚ influencing the people‚ telling them about what was happing in the hood. This movie also included the rise and fall of NWA and it also reveals scenes that included violence in rough neighborhoods. F. Gary Gray
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structure. This is important because it reveals critical flaws in the American society that gives false illusions to immigrants and U.S citizens that the United States plays fair in wars. Eminem plays as a voice for the American people. Through his music he points out the flaws in our government and speaks to the people who have been entrapped by it. In the first verse Eminem describes America as “the stripes and the stars for the rights men have died for to protect‚ the women and men who have broke
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The topic of our group was how woman are objectified in the music industry and of which genre portrayed the most significant ratio of degraded women through the lyrics and music videos. In these scholarly articles‚ all stated it has been found that women have been sexualized in nearly every genre‚ however‚ it occurs most frequently in the Rap genre. The first article is about how women are perceived and how different factors interrupt men’s perception of women when it come to dating- relevant
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