...“I'm not saying i'm gonna change the world,but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world”. - Tupac Shakur I would say that a modern day person in my eyes is Tupac Shakur, reason being Tupac's lifestyle as a young boy and even growing wasn't easy, he faced many obstacles as a child, and without any real guidance, learned the hard way about life from the streets. I admire Tupac not only for the messages he put into his music but also because instead of him just sitting on the sidelines, he stood up as a single voice and started speaking on things that were happening around him, from things happening in his own neighborhood, to the things happening around the country. Despite, people trying to silence him he still stood...
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...The bronze Tupac Shakur statue is a life size statue. It stands on a big granite rock in the middle of a water fountain shaped like a cross. It was unveiled the year 2005, on the 9th anniversary of the deadly shooting. It used to be the centerpiece of the Peace Garden at the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, which used to ran by Tupac’s mother. In the statue he is shown wearing a suit with a cross while carrying the bible. On the pedestal it quotes Tupac “I guarantee that i will spark the brain that will change the world.” Some People say him wearing the cross and carrying the bible is a bit to much. There are many theories to who killed Tupac Shakur, some even believe that he is still alive like Elvis Presley, and that he is waiting for the perfect moment to enter the spotlight again. If this is true they say that the Tupac Statue would e a good place to find him, since he would most likely stop by and check on it once in awhile....
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...death of Lesane Parish Crooks, better known as Tupac Amaru Shakur, that the image of rap music changed. He was considered to be one of the most iconic people to hail from the streets that had a profound impact on hip hop music. The legacy after his death, he was no longer looked at as a stereotype, but now as an iconic figure. He was the very image of one of his famous poems “The Rose That Grew From Concrete”. “Long live the rose that grew from concrete / When no one else even cared…” (7-8). Tupac was the beautiful delicate rose that was held beneath the surface trying to fight his way through the opposition against him. The concrete was his surroundings. A gang infested, drug infested, crime ridden neighborhood. He was also a child of a Black Panther who went to jail and was on drugs. Tupac lived his whole life in...
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...started in the Bronx in the 1970s by Dj Kool Herc. Rap through out time became a very popular genre that many people of all races listened to. Many rappers not only rapped about money and their life style but they rapped about important issues like racism that affected many people then and even today. Rapper Tupac and groups Public Enemy and N.W.A were among many that did. Rap is one important way to bring to light issues people are facing in society because you don’t have to be a certain race to listen to rap and even though a rapper could talk about issues that African Americans many can learn from it. To a great extent rap protest against institutional racism and inform people about what it was like being black in America....
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...As the textbook name names such as the cold Crush Brothers, the funky four plus one, the Kool Moe Dee, DJ Kool Herc and so on , I would like to also mention some other great artists that brought hiphop to the peak of its Fame. These artists include Tupac Shakur, NWA, Notorious B.I.G, Lauryn Hill , Ahmad, and the similar styles of J.Cole and Kendrick Lamar. The reason why I chose these particular artists is to represent the face of Hip Hop in my research project is because through their work, they have represented what the creation of hiphop was meant to symbolize. They use Styles similar to The Jive talkin South African American and storytelling from African descent with rhythmic beats over the music to help people understand their storyline and the struggles they were facing. As mentioned before, Hip Hop started in New York as a way for the Youth to have a non-violent way to settle their disputes. Just like when hiphop first again with the activist in the 1960s bringing awareness to social...
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...was due to the DJ scratching different beats together. As the DJ began to like the music they created it became background sound to the lyrical Emcee. Everyone wanted to know what the Emcee had to say and how they would rhyme. I have noticed that the positive message in the Emcees rhyme’s and political statements that rap music started with began to deteriorate over time. It was as though hip hop went from talking about what was going on currently in a positive way, to rappers encouraging violence as promoting a negative message. Since the 1980’s to current time there has been a persistent problem of how hip-hop has changed. Grand Master Flash’s “The Message” is a sociopolitical rap song that is truly about poverty and how inner city life was in America in 1982. The first verse speaks to the apparent struggle in his time, “Got no money to move out, I guess I got no choice”. Many people at the time, even though their surroundings were not safe, had no money to move away. Another verse from Master Flash “Rats in the front room, roaches in the back/ Junkies in the alley with the baseball bat” is a light way to show the public what is going on in some neighborhoods. In the 1980’s there was a crack epidemic. This line refers to the fact that the people addicted to crack cocaine would do anything to get their next fix, even if that meant attacking you. Further down in verses is “I can't walk through the park cause it's crazy after dark/Keep my hand on my gun cause they got me on...
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...|How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not long ago, I was having lunch in a KFC in Harlem, sitting near eight African-American boys, aged about 14. Since 1) it was 1:30 on a school day, 2) they were carrying book bags, and 3) they seemed to be in no hurry, I assumed they were skipping school. They were extremely loud and unruly, tossing food at one another and leaving it on the floor. Black people ran the restaurant and made up the bulk of the customers, but it was hard to see much healthy “black community” here. After repeatedly warning the boys to stop throwing food and keep quiet, the manager finally told them to leave. The kids ignored her. Only after she called a male security guard did they start slowly making their way out, tauntingly...
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...“Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it” - Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth In cultures all over the world, music can be seen encompassing many aspects of life for many individuals. It is a form of mass communication that speaks directly to society as a cultural form", and often reflects a collection and pattern of personal experiences. Hip-hop or rap, an art form and culture nearly thirty years old originating from The Bronx, New York, has provided a forum for Black and Latino youth to express their respective cultures and speak on a number of issues. Today, Hip-hop is a global phenomenon that appeals to almost all ethnicities and is synthesizing a new culture that goes beyond race, education, and income. Hip-hop has been under continual metamorphosis since its 1970’s inner-city inception. Some of the original artists like Kurtis Blow chose to lament everyday life in the ghettos. Others, Sugar Hill Gang among them, took a more dance inspired approach to the music. But for both these and other artists from the early years of rap through the late 1980’s including KRS-One, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah and LL Cool J, fast beats and socially relevant lyrics were among the primary components of the music. By the 1990’s a new face of rap music emerged. It began with Ice T and later gained popularity with artists such as NWA (Niggaz Wit Attitude) whose first album shocked and titillated the rap world with their...
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...CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA An Interpretive History TENTH EDITION James J. Rawls Instructor of History Diablo Valley College Walton Bean Late Professor of History University of California, Berkeley TM TM CALIFORNIA: AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY, TENTH EDITION Published by McGraw-Hill, a business unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020. Copyright © 2012 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Previous editions © 2008, 2003, and 1998. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., including, but not limited to, in any network or other electronic storage or transmission, or broadcast for distance learning. Some ancillaries, including electronic and print components, may not be available to customers outside the United States. This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1234567890 QFR/QFR 10987654321 ISBN: 978-0-07-340696-1 MHID: 0-07-340696-1 Vice President & Editor-in-Chief: Michael Ryan Vice President EDP/Central Publishing Services: Kimberly Meriwether David Publisher: Christopher Freitag Sponsoring Editor: Matthew Busbridge Executive Marketing Manager: Pamela S. Cooper Editorial Coordinator: Nikki Weissman Project Manager: Erin Melloy Design Coordinator: Margarite Reynolds Cover Designer: Carole Lawson Cover Image: Albert Bierstadt, American (born...
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