\ Noel Rivera English 102 Prof- McNamara Rap music promotes violence! The violent effect of rap music has been proven time and time again that it not only promotes but encourages violence and unlawfulness to it audience. Rap music in the 20th century has become a part of American culture and its message to the youth is connected with popular yet misguided phrases like “Get rich or die trying”, “Money over Bitches”, “Thug life”, and the most popular, “F**k the police!”. This language in rap music is something that parents need to consider before letting their child listen to their favorite Hip-Hop artist. However, this wasn’t always the case.
Eminem blames the parents for not spending time with their children is turning them in to delinquents as to it being his music turning them into delinquents. He raps about his life and even his fame and in most recent years his recovery process. McCrillis states that “In all fairness to Eminem's critics, there is a meanness and, in some cases, viciousness to a great deal of contemporary music. The meanness is certainly not limited to rap, but rap tends to bear the brunt of this criticism because, as music goes, it appears to be the most imitative of political speech” (McCrillis, 2003). Which he does have a point because rap music does bear the brunt of most criticism in the music industry for all the vulgarity that it has in the lyrics and Eminem is no exception when it comes down to the vulgarity of his music.
The Hip-Hop Culture Everybody I know wants to be a rapper these days. On Facebook, I get bombarded with several requests per day from someone asking me to listen to their new rap song. I probably know more white “rappers” than I know black and even female rappers like Nikki Minaj, or the new internet sensation, Kreayshawn are making waves in the hip-hop music industry. Growing up, I didn’t listen to much hip-hop. I heard the songs that became popular on the radio, but as a child I wasn’t interested in that type of music.
This mainly consists of wealth, power and beautiful women which are the goals of most youth in today’s contemporary society – in other words: The American dream. There are several codes and conventions that make up this genre of music video and my main example of this is ‘In Da Club’ by 50 Cent. [Image 2] In 50 Cent’s music video he directly addresses the audience with his lyrics. In hip hop music videos there is a frequent use of low angled/close up shots. The sole purpose of this is to demonstrate the power
Drawing his inspirations from the Notorious B.I.G. and 2Pac; Pyrex Jones aims to follow the same loose and easy flow. He also wishes to incorporate some of the social problems including: hardships, difficulties of violence, and some of the ethnic and racial dilemmas. This transforms into a huge fan following because the common listener could easily relate to this kind of music. Instilled with a real hustler’s ambition, Pyrex Jones has been making buzz locally with mixed tapes such as Microwave Music 1, Mafia Muzik, and various videos and performances.
Hip Hop's four main elements are Mc'ing, DJing, graffiti writing, and breakdancing. Other elements include beatboxing, hip hop fashion, and slang. It covers a broad range of ideas, styling and techniques that are unique to specific demographic areas. And last but not least, there is “Gospel Rap” music. Gospel rap can also be known for drawing an older crowd to as well as the youth, cause its easier to understand to others and they seem not to disrespect the opposite sex.
The Local Hip-Hop community is behind this movement in such a big way that the youth will listen to what’s being said because they look up to half of the local Rappers, Deejay’s, and Entertainment companies that’s out here today. We have started a page on Face Book that will be dedicated to the youth of Charleston to express their feelings and concerns, to hear what they feel needs to be done in order for us to help them. Timetable | Description of Work | Start and End Dates | Phase One | Picking teams to play in the game | Nov-26-2011 | Phase Two | Gathering all the sponsor | Dec-3-2011 | Phase Three | Game Time | Dec-17-2011 | We will like to start picking teams as soon as Nov-26-2011 We will have gather all sponsor by
I remember when all we had were cassette players and I use to listen to the radio all the time so when I heard my favorite song come on and I would hit record and then be able to play it again and again. As a teenager I would hang with friends and we would watch video’s, listened to the radio, and sing. Some of our favorite artist was New Edition, LL Cool J, Kool Moe Dee, ABC, and Boyz II Men. A song in particular that comes to mind is ABC “Iesha”. Michael Bivens from the group New Edition discovered these little boys and they
I think that Hip-Hop and the Five Percent Nation helped each other out; pretty much they went hand and hand. Hip-Hop had the youth and the Five Percenters had a couple messages that they wanted to be heard. Today, the Five Percenters still have an influence on youth. Youth today, including me, probably don’t have any clue of where the simplest things come from, like slang; you’ll be surprised how much history one little thing
Critical Review of Wiz Khalifa By Keana Albalos It is interesting to see how people can relate to an artist’s songs and experiences through them. A person can look up to someone that puts their words into music and can change someone’s life. Rap is one of the most popular music genres in todays’ society and it’s easy to repeat back with the catchy beat and chorus. A simple phrase from an artist can be remembered forever because of the great impact it has on people. Attending a live concert you can see their real motive and feelings through each song.