Culture Youth Artist

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Culture Youth Artist Powell, Kevin. “Hip-Hop Is the Most Important Youth Culture on the Planet.” TIME in partnership with CNN Friday, Sep. 22, 2000. Pages 1 to 4. Time magazine ask some daunting questions of hip-hop culture on the youth of this planet. Its place in the music business has derived from crossover of rap to hip-hop, over the past 25 years. Kevin Powell in the article,” Hip-Hop Is the Most Important Youth Culture on the Planet,” answers many intriguing questions of hip-hop roots from original artist to its current youth influenced form of today. Museums of today display the art work of the youth culture in acknowledgment of hip-hop music. Music art has come a long way in very unique lives of people through language, fashions, and expressional feelings, without regard to race, gender, and religion. This current urban folk art is from a background of past music makers with conscious and political views. Beginning with the blues and jazz in 1920s and 1930s to the rock n roll of Presley of 1950s and Nirvana of 1980s, some feel all white music, has originated from black musicians and artist. This crossover to hip-hop is spoken from the control of corporate America, to language spoken in these rhymes and lyrics. The golden years of mid 1980s to 1990s has been considered the best time of American rap poetry. Raps referenced to the great political views of the Reagan presidential era, which brought crack cocaine, and the disease of AIDS into the equation, Also along with the paycheck to paycheck poverty society. The corporate takeover of hip-hop has changed the business, although the underground style is still from the basic heart of the music formula. . Kevin Powell quoted George Orwell “everything is political, and question why they have chosen a certain path of being materialistic and hedonism is more important than

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