“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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of only two Def Jam releases to be distributed through Geffen Records under Warner Bros. Records as opposed to Columbia/CBS. As the decade neared to the end‚ Def Jam signed a group called Public Enemy‚ who is known for their controversial lyrics. Rapping things such as "Told the rab‚ get off the rag‚" "So-called chosen‚ frozen" and "Apology made to whoever pleases / Still they got me like Jesus” (Hochman). Public Enemy was seen in both distain and critically acclaimed master
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A Comparative Study of the Influence of the Pinoy Rap Battle “Fliptop” and Balagtasan to High School Students of xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx A Research Work Presented to: The Faculty of High School Department (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the Secondary Academic Course Presented by: xxxxxxxxxxxxx X – Aristotle xxxxxxxx‚ Philippines March‚ 2012 Chapter I Introduction Fliptop is a rap battle league that puts two people in a match to have them insult
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For as long as mankind has walked on this earth‚ music has been an important part of our culture and lifestyles. Each walk of life beats to a different drum. Different cultures use music for many aspects of their lives; for religious purposes‚ for celebrations‚ for comfort‚ for sorrow‚ for relaxation‚ for sports‚ for dances‚ for energy‚ for learning‚ for sleeping‚ and for sexual experiences. Everyone uses music for something. Music connects with people and reaches them in ways that words simply
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The Music Industry Today is looked at as common musician’s such as Eminem‚ A$AP Rocky‚ Gucci Mane‚ Blink-182 and of those listed‚ they’re just a few that come straight to mind when thinking about todays generations. They may currently be idles of todays times‚ but what about the past generations of musician’s? Over the past few decades the music industry has taken a switch and become completely different. Today we look at the music industry as being corrupt‚ as has shifted to swearing‚ drugs‚ and
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Hip-hop is the latest expressive manifestation of the past and current experience as well as the collective consciousness of African-American and Latino-American youth. But more than any music of the past‚ it also expresses mainstream American ideas that have now been internalized and embedded into the psyches of American people of color over time. A part of the learned mainstream American culture is sexism and misogyny. Hip-hop culture is frequently condemned for its misogynistic exploitation
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Tech n9ne actually oriented from the TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun & a rapper Black Walt Gave this name to him because of his fast rap style. He started rapping from the early age when he was a kid ‚he didn’t meet his father and his mother has lupus and epilepsy because of that these things inspired and affected him to search for god. Yates really like these Old School rappers like Just-Ice‚ Public Enemy
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Anson Wong WRI 1200 Prof. Patrice Wilson May 14‚ 2010 Hip-hop as a Cultural Movement What first comes to mind nowadays when you hear the word ‘hip-hop’? Most people think of a gangster embellished in large diamonds‚ sporting baggy clothes‚ huge cars‚ all with a general disregard for the welfare of humanity. It wasn’t always like this: hip-hop was originally born as a recreational activity‚ used as an outlet to cope with poverty. The notion of hip-hop has clearly changed in a big way since
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behave a certain way is because of the music they listen to these days. The music that these urban kids are listening to is primarily Hip Hop which is if you don’t know is a genre of music that is characterized by a performer speaking rhythmically‚ or rapping‚ over a backing track that often but not always consists of loops or samples of other music woven together (www.globalpost.com). Hip Hop gets a very bad reputation because of the explicit lyrics that talk about gang violence‚ sex‚ drug and alcohol
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THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS To begin‚ imagine that you have a child. You notice that he/she is rapping about “These h*** ain’t loyal.” Now they have a younger sibling and they are learning the same explicit lyrics. Next thing you know they are both disrespecting women. This is what hip hop teaches consumers in society. There are many citizens that believe hip hop has a negative and positive impact on communities. Some say it makes youths violent and negative. Others say it connects to the public and
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