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.
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. They were the first hip hop act to get airplay on the ever-popular MTV, setting the stage for future hip hop acts to achieve success in their wake. The song “My Adidas” was a brilliant song not only for the content of the song, but also for the massive public response it received. The song sparked
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. Even though Hip Hop has secured its place in the mainstream pop since the late 90s; recently it has seen an era of decline. Pyrex Jones is hopeful to revive Hip Hop music through his own novelty and variety; securing fame enjoyed by 50 Cent or Akon, in the foreseeable future. He is expanding his buzz by currently working on “Block Boy Shyt: the Mix tape” featuring Lil Roc. He also has a leading role in the upcoming “Son of the Mob”.
The two main ones are simply ‘Old school hip-hop’ and ‘New School hip-hop’. Now days New School is definitely much more widely adopted up by society, but there are still the classic fans of old school Hip-hop. The pop culture is has evolved into is almost everything you see, and everywhere you look. From big time celebrities all the way to the real hard street life. Rap music has turned into a multi billion dollar industry.
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.
Hess includes many interviews of different artists, one being Run DMC. During these interviews he covers what made him want to start a career in hip hop. Price, Emmett George. “Hip Hop Culture.” Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2006. George Emmett talks about the evolution of hip hop culture and how it rose and spread.
To me the DJ played an even more instrumental part in that he helped to unify people. The block parties were helpful in bringing whole communities together, which they wouldn’t have been if it wasn’t for the DJs. Since the DJs were using turntables for scratching and mixing it only makes sense that sampling would be involved. One thing I learned in class was that “ Rapper’s Delight” ( what I’ve always known to be the first rap song) was a sample from “ Good times” The DJ has the most important
Everything from his physical features to his words was portrayed through the arts in a way that would insinuate Malcolm X as “forever young”. The cultural and artistic iconic reputation of Malcolm X witnessed a brief hiatus over the period of 1970s to 1980s until the pop explosion of the hip-hop generation. Numerous artists began to incorporate samples from X’s speech over hip-hop beats into their music. Apart from his words, images of Malcolm X also began to become more visible whether in murals or in paintings. In a way, in a generation and time of newfound Afro-centricism and the Black Power movement, Malcolm X was the perfect fit for being able to speak whatever uncomfortable truths that no other individual could muster to bring forth.
Everybody knows the hip hop moguls of the nineties such as; Biggies Smalls, Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, Jay Z, and Snoop Dogg, but who were the pioneers? What certain crowds of society did this new style of music impact and draw in?
I asked him if hip-hop had any influence over him and he replied, “Yes, but don’t ask me how. Hip-hop has changed a lot since I first started listening to it-- the music is more elaborate, the beats are bouncier, it’s not reflective of society anymore. It’s more about overindulgence” Dale does believe that hip-hop is a great unifier. According to Dale, there is a wide range of subject matter and the under lying themes of frustration, rage, and anger are something young people can relate to, which according to him is why it has become so popular. (Banks,