When compared to the other rap hits of the time, Run DMC's sound was very unique in the sound of the beats and the skillful, push it to the limit vocals. By the mid 80's, Simmons had founded the hip hop record label Def Jam, and Run DMC became the most powerful group in hip hop. Run DMC then started to experiment mixing their sound with samples of heavy metal guitars, basically combining the sound of each genre to create a gritty, street savvy sound. Run DMC's success showed the rest of the hip hop world that success could be achieved by delivering constant new material that challenged the status-quo with unique sounds and challenging lyrics. Their 1986 album Raising Hell was preceded by the top ten hit “My Adidas”, and then the release of a cover of Aerosmith's “Walk This Way”, off the same album, became the groups biggest commercial hit.
Ronnie Brown 6/10/11 How Has Rap Impacted Society It is safe to say that Rap music has been an influence to society, and still is influencing society as we speak. How Rap music has influenced society can be examined from both good and bad angles. Rap is known to be a controversial topic, and will immediately ignite conversation. Evolving and changing over the years, Rap has been able to affect the entire world in more ways than one. Good or bad, it is still pretty impressive to witness how one of the youngest genres of music has grown and is still growing.
B. Credibility Statement Tupac’s music has made an impact on modern day Hip-hop that he has become very well known throughout America by many of his fans and many young artist today who admire his music. I. Rollingstone.com states examples of highly appreciated artists of present day society that also started their music careers in the 90’s that were influenced by Tupac’s originality in his music. Famous artists such as Snoop Dogg, Ludacris and Chamillionaire are a few of the many who respect his success. (Tupac Shakur) C. Thesis Statement 2pac’s passion in his career awarded him with such great success that he has become a prominent artists of the 90’s who’s music is still appreciated in today’s pop cultural .
These distinctive beats and bass lines became the foundation of a new type of music in these clubs, and Djs can be seen as the prime movers of hip hop.” “MCs (Master of Ceremonies) in the clubs were there to introduce the hot new DJ. Between songs, though, MCs began to talk to the crowd. Like MC's even today, this talk varied between jokes, biographical anecdotes, as well as attempts to excite and energize the audience. Eventually, some local MCs began to talk over the music, and this talk soon became part of the music performance. These MC's became known as "rappers".” “Eventually, "rap music" was refined to become a mixture of rhythmic poetry, and rappers were getting noticed by 1979 and some commercially successful records were selling locally, though rap had hardly made an impact on the U.S. mainstream.” As the eighties went by, hip hop got more popular and we had some station that would play our music such as BET, but MTV only played everything besides African American music.
3. The audience are people that believe in the stereotypical ideas of what New York and California are like and what they have done for hip hop. People knowledgeable about those who were influential in music, particularly in hip hop and bebop. 4. Smith finds many rhetorical devices that grabs our attention i make us catch his message.
The counterculture brought a lot of attention to drugs and popularized them in the teen society (American Cultural History). Hippies who made up a lot of the teen population at the time was very into drugs. Most of theses drugs were still legal at this time because they were so new and uncommon. Scientists didn’t have the research on them that they do today to realize the negative effects they had on teens. One of the most popular drugs invented in this decade was LSD also known as acid, which is a hallucinogenic drug (Neary 122).
The MC began as an individual who would announce the DJ and hype the crowd, but over time developed into the rapper who would grow to play a much larger role in the production. Figure 1: The 4 Elements of Hip-Hop Over the past forty years Hip-Hop has gone through some drastic changes in all of its elements. Hip-hop has evolved from a New York City past time to one of the biggest businesses in the world today. In this paper I will pay attention to the more musical elements of Hip-Hop, focusing solely on the DJ and the MC and how their roles have completely changed over time. With specific example from the Hip-Hop industry and the elements of both the MC
Changes in Hip Hop Subculture The history of Hip hop subculture has come a long way and has made many changes along its way. Hip hop as it may seem started off as being positive and coming from the heart and having meaning to now people becoming a part of it and not even knowing the real meaning of its background. Now, it is said that many people are in the “rap game” just for the love of money and not because it’s something that they really love to do. Hip hop started in the late 60s early 70s in the Bronx, New York. Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, is the credited as being the pioneer of hip hop in the United States.
Reverse Outline: Paragraph 1: * Assertion: Schoolly D a Hip Hop rapper from Philadelphia created the genre, Gangsta Rap, and with his lyrics he influenced upcoming rappers throughout America. * Schoolly D is the pioneer of Gangsta Rap, his lyrics mention real life experiences like, selling drugs, being in a gang, and violence he's witnesses throughout his hometown. * Once the song, "P.S.K. (Park Side Killers) What Does That Mean? ", it immediately became a hit that branched out to the West Coast, which created a whole new wave of Hip Hop.
This forced Kool DJ Herc to find another appealing sound in order to please his audiences, which he did. Kool DJ Herc adapted a new style, which involved him by chanting over the instrumental or percussion sections of the popular music of the day. He learned that by taking two identical records using an audio mixer, that he could play any segment over and over, there fore extending one segment for entire song (Light, 1999). In the early 1970’s and with the emergence of disc jockeys such as Kool DJ Herc, hip-hop began to spread through urban areas of New York like “wild fire.” Kool DJ Herc, who actually coined the term “hip hop,” began to realize that this was the beginning of a new genre (Light, 1999). As this phenomena evolved the party shouts became more elaborate, d jays began to incorporate little rhymes such as “throw your hands in the air and raise ‘em like you just don’t care.” With regards to Kool DJ Herc, as he progressed eventually turned his attention to the complexities of d-jaying and let two friends Coke La Rock and Clark Kent handle the microphone duties.