wanted to be a revolutionary.” said a young Tupac Shakur. From the earliest age‚ Tupac wanted greatness and nothing less. Tupac Amaru Shakur was born June 16‚ 1971 at New York University Hospital. His name‚ Tupac Amaru was an Inca name meaning “Shining Serpent” and Shakur meant “Thankful to God”. Tupac’s
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Slide 1 Tupac Shakur was a delicate‚ intelligently skilled yet disturbed young boy who came to grasp the 1990s gangsta-rap and died — he was gunned down in Las Vegas on September 7‚ 1996. His murder has never been explained. He started his music profession as a revolutionary with a reason — to explain the travails and treacheries continued to happen to numerous African-Americans‚ frequently. His aptitude in doing as such made him a representative not only for his own era‚for battling for equity.
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Analysis Essay The Influence of Hip Hop on Today’s Youth “After silence‚ that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” This profound statement from English writer‚ Aldous Huxley‚ demonstrates the importance that music obtains in today’s society. Simply‚ music is a form of expression‚ not limited to any specific genre. Although this expression is not limited to one genre‚ there is one that seemingly obtains the title of most controversial. The Rap/Hip-Hop genre has been harshly
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Tupac Shakur – Turning Struggles into Success Violent lyrics‚ a bad-boy image‚ and a long criminal record are what attracted and connected millions of young adults to the now legendary rapper Tupac Shakur. Tupac was a man of contradictions; for example‚ his music degraded and also praised strong women. Tupac Shakur rapped about problems that inner-city black Americans could relate to‚ along with his legal and personal drama; you could not get away from Tupac in the 1990’s. From the womb to the
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Hip-Hop Pioneers The pioneers of hip-hop started to surface around the mid 70’s. The different components to Hip-Hop were Dance‚ DJs‚ and MC’s. Some say it originated in the Bronx‚ NY‚ with DJ’s like GrandMaster Flash who invented different techniques on the mix board. He later joined up with a group of rappers call Furious Five and created hits like "The Roof is on Fire." Another Influential Hip-Hop Artist includes Joseph Simmons and Darryl McDaniels‚ also known as Run and D.M.C. The combination
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By Ronald Roach As a cultural movement‚ hip-hop manages to get billed as both a positive and negative influence on young people‚ especially on Black and Latino youth. On one hand‚ there are African American activists‚ artists and entrepreneurs‚ such as Russell Simmons‚ who seek to build a progressive political movement among young hip-hop fans and who have had modest success with voter registration efforts. On the other hand‚ there’s no shortage of critics who denounce the negative portrayals
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Chris Zenone Tupac Shakur Is Still Alive On September 7‚ 1996‚ Tupac Amaru Shakur was riding in the passenger side of a black BMW driven by Marion Suge Knight‚ president of Death Row Records. Tupac and Suge had just finished watching Mike Tyson defeat Bruce Seldon at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas‚ Nevada. Tupac was standing up through the sunroof while the car was stopped at a traffic light. The Cadillac containing the gunmen passed an entourage of Tupac’s allies‚ many of them bodyguards. Four
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wonder where hip hop started and what does it mean to other people in different parts of the world? What hip hop means to me i think is that it just music but to other people it might mean more since they relate to it. I agree that there’s more to hip hop because some people relate to the songs because the artist who sing it is probably going through what people are going through too. The first reason why I think there’s more to hip hop is because in the movie that we saw rappers use hip hop to express
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Analysis: Hip hop has undeniably progressed into a largescale sensation that has captivated the world. This paper is based upon hip-hop history and African heritage. This analysis approaches a vast view of hip-hop‚ its influences‚ struggle and beauty of these music genre. I name certain artist‚ their musical effects on political movements and events within the context of African American music and history. Page 1 provides the beginning of hip-hop‚ which includes the birthplace of hip-hop‚ and the
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Jonathon Bidelspach AFA 2000 Unit IV Paper Hip-hop music is known as one of the most popularizing and popular genres in our modern society. Most of hip-hop music is considered vulgar‚ offensive‚ and meaningless‚ which can be easily displayed by hip-hop artists such as Soulja Boy and Lil’ Wayne. However‚ who gets lost in translation is the artist who conveys true meaning in their lyrics and sticks with the original roots of the music. For hip-hop’s short life‚ there has been dramatic change in
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