...Hip-Hop is a cultural movement that was formed during the 1970’s among African American youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. Hip-hop is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestation of the culture; oral, aural, physical and visual. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music. The origin of the hip-hop cultures stems from the block parties of the Ghetto brothers, when they plugged the amps for their instruments and speakers into the lampposts on 163rd street and Prospect Avenue; and used music to break down racial barriers. Since 1970’s hip hop has spread to both urban and suburban communities throughout the world. Hip-hop music first emerged when contemporary disc jockeys and imitators creating rhythmic beats by emphasizing a percussive pattern. It was later accompanied by a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry often presented in 16-bar measures or time frames, and beat boxing, a vocal technique mainly used to provide percussive elements of music and various technical effects of hip hop DJs. In the early days of Hip hop young partygoers initially recited popular phrases and used the slang of the day. It was fashionably for DJ to acknowledge people who were in attendance at a party. Early raps featured someone shouting over instrumental break, which would usually evoke a response from the crowd. Rap caught on because it offered young urban New Yorkers...
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...Tacoma Community College Keanu Wong Real Rap is Poetry English 101- Essay 3 5/18/13 Money, girls, cars, drugs, and diamonds are all subjects that seem relative to the music artists known as rappers. Some people say rappers aren’t even artists, simply because rap music “celebrates the accumulation of status, and always has: chains, cars, and yes, women, who are treated like objects obtained through success” (Complex Magazine 2012). But maybe the rappers of today cannot avoid those subjects. After all, what good is the influence or subject of a song, if none of the content is true??? This method of song writing only seems fair to use if all of those materialistic subjects are a part of a rappers daily surroundings. The truth is that rap music has always been materialistic and subjective to drugs since it first became popular with the release of Sugarhill Gang’s song “Rapper’s Delight” in November of 1979. Big Bank Hank, just one of three members in Sugarhill Gang, made it very clear in Rapper’s Delight that he owned “a Lincoln continental and a sunroof Cadillac… and a color TV to watch the Knicks.” (Lyricsondemand.com) and that he was also “Feelin the highs.” (Lyricsondemand.com) Then another song released recently in 2013, named “Bugatti” by rapper Ace Hood, can easily be compared to the same idea behind the lyrics of Rapper’s Delight. In the first verse alone, Ace hood raps about “One hundred K, I spent that on my wrist. Two hundred dollars, spent that on your b****…copped...
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...women and men look like, these are the vehicles used to alter and form their perceptions. The media has a powerful influence in the everyday thoughts and lives of Americans. The way they depicted what African American wears and who they are. I want to be sexy and pretty and want all the people to lust after me The American media, in particular, and Western media, more generally, are charged with glamorizing and perpetuating unrealistic ideals of feminine beauty. This is the state of mind the media wants to develop. But is any of this real? Why are women sex objects in the Media? Why is beautiful defined by hair and body structure and skin tone? Why are couples more loving when they are Caucasian and seen as angelic. But African women don’t look pure or innocent; they look like whores in the Media. Why is it that African American women attributes are made so they look like a sex toy? The Caucasian woman looks like the women a man takes home to mom. In the media several men are lusting for the African American women, but none are communicates marriage to her and yet Caucasian women are seem like they a pure and divine. They can love one man for their whole lives. Why can’t all women have the same imagery in the media? In chapter #4 of (Conley Socialization, the process by which individuals internalize the values, beliefs, and norms of a given society and learn to function as a member of that society).I believe this to be true in the African American community. ...
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...The song "where Is the Love?" written by will.i.am, Taboo, apl.de.ap, with help of others such as Ron Fair, and recorded by the American hip-hop group The Black Eyed Peas. In this song, The Black Eyed Peas lament on various issues in the World, such as terrorism, racism, hypocrisy about the U.S. government, war, pollution, intolerance, and greed. I choose this song because as I was watching this music video, I thought that there are lots of worldwide issues that make our world disharmony and difficulty. I think the video describes nowadays world. Today the world is corrupted and vicious. There is at least a hundred murder cases in a day, happenings dealing with terrors and discrimination occur all around the world almost every second. It is easier to find hypocrisy and racism than peace and love. Furthermore, media and government highly influence people. For example, in the music video, children are playing violent games likely to act what they see in the media. Also, false information from media and government give negative images. I believe the mostly impacted for all corruptions of the world is our children, the next generation. In my opinion, people should be honest and try to make our world peaceful and lovable for our future generations. This is my interpretations of the first verse of lyrics. The question mark that appears in the intro of the song represents “Where is the love?” in the world. The first and second line of the first verse ‘What's wrong with the...
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...Task 1 - Produce a questionnaire and interview twenty people (16 -19 Age Group Only). Conduct primary and secondary research for a selected product/service making use of identifiable sampling techniques. A sample is a piece of a whole; you cannot research the whole market, so you pick a sample. An example of a non-profitable sample could be dimensional sampling this is an extension to quota sampling. The researcher takes into account several characteristics e.g. gender, age, income, residence and education. An example of a profitable sample could be systematic random sampling. With the systematic random sample, there is an equal chance (probability) of selecting each unit (every nth person) from within the population when creating the sample. For my research I've chosen to use a non-profitable sampling methods simply because I am targeting young people on how music influences them. So I have specific age groups (16-19), which are allowed to answer the questionnaire in order to make my research more reliable. With my questions I've used four different methods in order to make my questionnaires more do able and reliable. I used opened questionnaires, which allows my samples to elaborate on their answers. I've also used closed question such as 'do you listen to music?’ as yes or no question are easy to tally up. I've used scaled questions in order to easily tally up and give general quantitative data and finally I have also used dichotomous which is the use fixed-alternative questions...
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...questions. Questionnaire 1. State your gender: _____M _____F 2. Age range: _____5-12 _____13-25 _____26-30 3. Do you watch music videos? _____Yes _____No 4. How often do you watch music videos? _________Hours 5. Where do you watch music videos? _____TV _____Phone/iPod _____Youtube 6. Do you like to see dance routines within a music video? _____Yes _____No Why? ________________________________________________________________ 7. Do you eat while watching the TV? _____Yes _____No 8. Do you study while watching the TV? _____Yes _____No 9. What genre of music do you prefer to listen to? _____Pop _____Rock _____Classical _____Dance _____Country _____RnB _____Hip-hop 10. Do you prefer...
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...it is a way of living. The New York City areas of Harlem ("Mecca") and Brooklyn ("Medina") are named after notable Islamic cities by members of the organization.[2][3] The Nation of Gods and Earths teaches that Black people are the original people of the planet Earth, and that they are the fathers (Gods) and mothers (Earths) of civilization.[1] The Nation believes that the science of Supreme Mathematics is the key to understanding man's relationship to the universe. The Nation does not believe in a traditional God but instead believes that the Asiatic Blackman is God [sic] and his proper name is Allah, an acronym for Arm, Leg, Leg, Arm, Head.[1] As stated in an article by Naeem Mohaiemen, Five Percenters were the innovators behind early hip-hop slang, including "'sup, G?" (originally "G" meant God, not gangsta), "Word is...
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...Is There Really Celebrity Justice? Under the United States Constitution it states, that all men are created equal. Numerous, people believe that all are not equal, and all are not treated the same in today’s so-called “equal” justice system. “There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depends on the amount of money he has” (Cole 3) In one source, many people argue that our criminal justice system is based on the premise and promise of equality before the law, but at times predicate on the exploitation of inequality (Cole 5) Some feel no matter the crime, the rich and famous will find a way to settle out of court, pay off witnesses or just erase some or all charges against them. Celebrities get the best lawyers and the best chance at justice that money can buy”. (“Times”) There are many court cases that lead people to believe the justice system is unfair. Celebrities, in the eyes of the public, receive less time than the average American citizen for the same crime. Furthermore, celebrities also receive more publicity than the average American citizen. Why do celebrities receive more camera time and less punishment time? However, our judicial system claims that all men are equal in the court of law. For example, in the court case of Marcus Dixon, a high school football player at Pepperell High School in Floyd County, Georgia, the state Supreme Court sentenced Dixon to ten years in prison. He was a black athlete accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old...
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...Shawn Carter, better known as Jay Z, tells Vanity Fair contributing editor Lisa Robinson in the November issue that although his wife, Beyoncé, says that their 18-month-old daughter, Blue Ivy, prefers Jay’s music to hers, he’s not so sure. “That’s not true. She does like her mother’s music—she watches [Beyoncé’s concerts] on the computer every night. But my album came out and I don’t know if Blue ever heard any of my music prior to this album—she’s only 18 months old and I don’t play my music around the house. But this album was new, so we played it. And she loves all the songs. She plays a song and she goes, ‘More, Daddy, more . . . Daddy song.’ She’s my biggest fan. If no one bought the Magna Carta [album], the fact that she loves it so much, it gives me the greatest joy. And that’s not like a cliché. I’m really serious. Just to see her—‘Daddy song, more, Daddy.’ She’s genuine, she’s honest, because she doesn’t know it makes me happy. She just wants to hear it.” Jay tells Robinson that Barack Obama’s 2008 election “actually renewed my spirit for America. It was like, Oh, wow, man, this whole thing about land of the free, home of the . . . it’s, like, real—it’s going to happen, everyone’s getting to participate in it. But growing up, if you had ever told a black person from the hood you can be president, they’d be like, I could never . . . If you had told me that as a kid, I’d be like, Are you out of your mind? How?” Jay tells Robinson that his mother knew he was dealing drugs...
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...Entertainment has always thought to have been a topic of great controversy. It has been argued that music was one type of entertainment that has the most impact. One half of the population in today’s society feels that music has a positive impact on society, by either convincing people of what is right or by improving one’s focus. The other half feels that music could not have a worse effect on society. With the increasing cursing, violence, and sex in lyrics and music videos, it is not a surprise that the majority of people feel that music has a negative impact on society. Popular music has an immensely negative impact on human behavior that causes people to become as violent, promiscuous, and drug addicted as the music to which they listen. The most popular songs nowadays usually have messages about sexual relationships. James C. McKinley Jr. talks about a recent study of popular song lyrics at the State University of New York in Albany that shows that not only do the messages about sexual relationships dominate the songs at the top of the charts, but also that songs about sex sell much better than other songs. Not surprisingly, the study found that there were gaps in between music genres. Successful country songs tended to have messages about long-term commitment to marriage, parenting children, breaks-ups, and then oaths of fidelity. But, on the other hand, the top three themes in POP songs were, in order, the singer’s sex appeal, a person’s promiscuity, and one-night stands...
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...Suburban Rides to games were always interesting and insightful. I still have not had the privilege of experiencing the wonders of Dating. There were many Wildfires around Little River that burnt down anything in its path. For my sixteenth birthday the whole family went to the Renaissance Fair in Kansas City. I got a Didgeridoo at the renaissance fair, even though I don’t have a musical bone in my body and when I play it, it sounds like a fart. I was able to complete two years of Espanol in one year. “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi is my favorite spanish song of this year. Fruit Snacks were my main, go to snack, almost every day this year. I joined the Little River FFA for the first time this year and earned my Greenhand. The cheerleaders put on a Cheer Clinic for all of the grade school kids and had a blast with them. I got to drive my own car a Honda Civic to school every Wednesday. This winter I spent a little time on the Wii to get some exercise. I was able to skip school for half a day to play games at the awesome Field day that HOSA put on. The Mysteries of Laura is the show that I am currently binge watching on...
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...Zoe Tse Internet and Music “Just gonna stand there, and watch me burn, but that's alright because I like the way it hurts. Just gonna stand there and hear me cry, but that's alright because I love the way you lie.” Have you ever heard this song, Love The Way You Lie? This song was a big hit these few months. Where do you hear this song from? Probably in the mall, by buying a CD, or from internet, people can listen to this song. If people get this song from the internet, they only have to make one click to download for free, and then transfer to their cell phone, iPod, or mp3 very easily. Nowadays, music is very popular in United States such pop music, R&B. The more popular music becomes, the more people download. Obviously, the internet is threatening the artists, and no one knows what the future of music industry will be. The music industry is more prosperous than before. A long time ago, the only way musician could earn money was to compose music for the operas. There were many musicians who were poor, but they were famous after they died. For example, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), who was a talented musician, created a lot of famous musical compositions. Although he composed many songs for the operas, he lived in poverty and was not famous when he was alive. Artists couldn’t make much money in the past. In the 60s, when the Standard-playing Record, SP, was invented by Emile Berliner, music became widespread because musicians recorded and sold their compositions...
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...and roll is long and intricate drawing its roots from early American R&B, among other places. While most of the true innovators of rock music have been widely overlooked, white musicians have been profiting greatly off of the innovations made in music by black recording artists, specifically in the arena of rock and roll. It is widely accepted that rock music has its roots in the american blues. The history of the blues dates all the way back to slave plantations. This genre comes specifically from African-American folk music. Julio Finn the author of The Bluesman stated that: [White blues performers] can never be bluespeople...because the blues is not something they live but something they do- which makes all the difference in the world. What distinguishes the bluesperson from the bluesperformer is the cultural-racial make-up, which can only be inherited by a descendent of an ex-American slave. (qtd in Adelt 1) Whether this is true or not is a matter of opinion. What is intriguing about this statement though is the fact that virtually all blues music was originally composed...
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...you are from, they are becoming a regular practice in our society. The story, “Flight Patterns” by Sherman Alexie, introduces a proud Native American man named William, with dark eyes and hair, which he braids every morning, living in Seattle, Washington, who is an over achiever in many aspects of his life especially work, has a good sense of humor with a loving wife and daughter who he adores so much. William is a businessman, a platinum frequent flier who flies all over the country due to his occupation, (“William traveled so often, the Seattle-based flight attendants knew him by first name.” 58) The character William loves his job but hates to leave his family, getting a sense of anxiety when it comes to leaving them behind. The story “Flight Patterns” shows that despite the efforts put forward towards eliminating discrimination and racial profiling, it will always be a factor in our everyday lives. Although some people believe only certain people racially profile or discriminate, in reality it is a problem we all face due to media, events, and our social world that we will only overcome together. Alexie uses contradictions in this story to draw attention to the problem of judging people based on their race and ethnic backgrounds and not their character by using fiction elements such as character, plot, and tone to communicate the ideas. The story “Flight Patterns” takes place one early morning as William begins a business trip. He says goodbye to his family and gets into...
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...on earth – Daddy loves you. 1|Dear Ms Educated Black Woman Preface I began having serious thoughts pertaining to the dynamics of Black romantic relationships in college upon traveling to Atlanta and conversing for hours with Spelman College’s exceptional Black women. It was like the television show A Different World. While my reason for routinely making the two hour trip from my college was to convince a particular one of these women that she was to be my wife, it became clear that a unique dynamic was on the horizon. Many of the educated Black women I encountered had confidence in their academic and professional journey, but lacked clarity on whether enough educated Black men with at least an ounce of swagger shared their dream of creating a formidable family. It was a fair question then, and remains a growing dilemma affecting educated Black women today. Since that time I have consistently spoken with Brothers, Sisters, family members, friends, and others about the challenges facing Black relationships. Those conversations have inspired me to share my humble thoughts for anyone willing to indulge me. As you read beyond the passion of my words, hopefully sincerity and love will be visible, along with a creative spirit that you find interesting enough to continue the exposé. Expect to see the tremendous influences of film & television, hip-hop, fiction, nonfiction, humor, politics, scholarship, and of course God as significant portions of my writings. All of these play a...
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