It can be clearly seen that rap meets this definition. Many rap songs utilise various poetic techniques and language features to capture and give a voice to an individual’s feelings. One example is the song Read All About It by Professor Green. This is an emotional song that reflects the themes of courage, acceptance and growth. Its poetic devices and language, alongside its subject matter, make Read All About It a worthy piece of literature to include in the Canon.
These range from food, clothing, religious views and music. The greatest impact on me was the discovery of hip-hop music. I first stumbled upon this genre when I was in middle school. As time went on, I had a great appreciation for this type of music. I even became influenced by these rap artists and noticed how different they were from regular people.
Through step, they made their own new language in order to communicate [good idea; we could probably work on this theme for RUCKUS- Prithak]. Since then, step has really progressed and become an important part of sororities and fraternities all over the US, as well as getting incorporated into the culture of hip hop. In our performance, we are really trying to go back to the origin of step by stepping without music. In addition, RUCKUS is beginning to transition into a team that is more step heavy than dance, and this will be evident in our performance. We believe that due to RUCKUS' unique nature we definitely support DiverCity's overarching theme of diversity and inclusion.
\ 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.
This image of me that the world holds on to, mostly stemming from my past transgressions, plays a major part in how I see myself, and I am diligently working to change this aspect of my self-perception. It is trying to be a self-fulfilling prophecy (Wood, 2012), with the world saying that I will be who I was once, but I disagree. I have not written down this goal until now, and I have not placed it anywhere, as my current circumstances prevent me from having a place to put such a statement. I may get it as a tattoo someday, so that I can see it no matter where I am. The statement I would currently use if I did have such a place, would be something like; “I am not the man I used to be, and though my past may be a part of who I am, it is not who I am, it is just my past.” I can definitely refine this goal statement by saying something like, “I will live a life that shows the world I am not my past”, or simply, “I am not my past.” The latter would really be a nice tattoo someday.
You need to do more than simply mentioning published influences. Play short examples of songs or artists that may have influenced the creation of “your” song • Discuss and share critical writing and commentary on the song or artist to back up your claims that we will still be caring about this artist in the year
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
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.
More unconventional hip hop sub-genres include political hip hop, Christian hip hop, nerdcore, homo hop, and instrumental hip hop (hip hop without vocals, commonly used in amateur freestyle rap)” ()*. This particular source offers that hip hop has created many positive and popular sub-genres of music. Hip Hop cannot be deemed all bad when you have Christian-rap, pro-black (the consciously aware), which promote peace or bringing the black communities together. The fact here is that rap has crossed cultural lines and can be deemed very inspiring, innovative even in many styles of music. A book I started to read named the 48 Laws of Power talks about Reputation being a very important platform of power stating, “So much depends on reputation – guard it with your life”.
I am more of a listener learner than a reader learner. Second, I take test myself. If you give me a passage to read and do a summery on I will go above and beyond the expectations with my creative mind and keep on writing haha. Last I work well with other people. I will never give you a mean or rude tone and yes iof you look at my records i've done quite a few things that are not okay, but thats why I'm here to get my life on track and get out of the drama stuff.