I walked past thinking of why someone would ever wear jewelry that is so painstakingly ugly. As I shopped for another two hours or so, I saw them again and I was even more curious to why they wore that style of jewelry. I came to find out that the huge jewelry is called bling. Bling is a hip hop expression that refers to flashy, ostentatious jewelry. Bling was first discovered by rap artists sometime in the late 1990's.
2008-present: Slaughterhouse and No Love Lost [edit] Budden reached out to Crooked I, Royce da 5'9", Joell Ortiz and Nino Bless for a track titled "Slaughterhouse" on one of his Amalgam Digital releases, Halfway House. [8] Based on the reception of the track, they decided to form a group, minus Nino Bless, and named it after the first song they made together. [8] Budden released his second alum titled "Padded Room" on February 24, 2009, and debuted at number 42 on the Billboard 200. The group released numerous songs throughout early 2009, leading up to their self-titled album Slaughterhouse, which was released through E1 on August 11, 2009. [9] The album features production from The Alchemist, DJ Khalil, Mr. Porter, Streetrunner, plus guest appearances from Pharoahe Monch, K. Young, The New Royales, and many others.
Kemker 1 Benjamin Kemker English 2201-006 Ms. Maiti 19 October 2012 “Thick as a Brick” Jethro Tull’s 1972 single track self-titled album “Thick as a Brick” is an example of how political satire of one age can carry over to another. Ironically, one of the song’s themes is history repeating itself which is the appeal the song has to those willing to listen. At the time of its writing, front man Ian Anderson set out to do something completely different from the other big names in music. Dave Morris states in his essay: It is somewhat difficult to define exactly what the “concept” of Thick as a Brick is; it is not an attack on the evils of capitalistic society like Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, nor is it an exploration of artistic awakening and the role of the artist in society, like The Who’s Tommy. It can be seen more as an artistic attack on nearly everything in mainstream society, including attitudes toward children, art, war, and general materialism.
Fahrenheit 451 The extraordinary experience of reading the novel Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, is that although it was written in 1953 the author predicted a vivid description of the way things are in America today. The colorful characters in this book represent different examples of American culture and how this culture is addicted to electronic media means of communication and has a lack of self control. This fictional story projects almost sixty years into the future. The time period of this story is not clearly specified in the novel but it could easily be assumed that the story takes place during the new millennium. There are references to terrible crimes, nuclear weapons, political correctness,
It all started in 1987 in Aberdeen Washington, when vocalist/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic got together. The band had various drummers until 1990 when Dave Grohl joined the band. According to Rolling Stones, “When the Seattle trio hit the scene in 1991, mainstream radio was awash in the hair metal of Poison and Def Leppard. But seemingly within hours of the release of Nirvana's anarchic, angry single ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ — and its twisted anti-pep-rally video—the rules had changed. Artifice was
In “Hip Hop planet,” an essay from national geographic magazine, James Mc Bride argues that “at its best hip-hop lay bare the empty moral cupboard that is our generations legacy.” He claims that this music makes “visible the inner culture of America’s greatest social problems.” He develops this claim by first a nightmare about her daughter announcing that she is getting married with the rapper and then realized that he is no different from the rapper. Then, he examines how hip-hop” exploded around the world as a language of youth resistance. Finally, he proves his belief with youth resistance. Finally, he proves his belief with some sobering statistics about society’s problems. Mc Brides purpose is to attempt to persuade baby boomers that hip
Political Science 34-102 Section 6 Tianli Wu Instructor: Dr. Wade Where is the love <Where is the love> is a song recorded by The Black Eyed Peas, an American hip hop group, in their third album, Elephunk. This song was written by Ron Fair in late 2001. Will.I.Am, another member of the group, added the socially-conscious lyrics and Justine Timberlake also co-wrote some sections of the song. The lyrics added an antiwar sentiment and address a wild range of global ills and strife. Their song had six weeks in the mainstream on the Top 40 chart and is in the Top 10 for the worldwide radio listening audience.
Back in the days as some people may call it hip hop was a way that a certain person felt and the things that they would say was things that happens in real life everyday situations. Rapping to these later rappers was in their hearts and soul they would eat, sleep, and breathe hip hop whenever they got the chance. Hip hop was created out of the blue it wasn’t planned or anything it’s something that just happened and came about. “When youth culture confronted an urban dystopian spectacle (unemployment, segregation, housing, and other forms of environmental violence) in the 1970s, it tried to revise its negative effects with a new vision” (Brunson III). Rapping was used as a way for the youth to stay out of trouble and keep themselves occupied.
The name “beat” was originally brought up by Jack Kerouac in 1948 to differentiate the underground and rebellious youth group in New York. “Beat” was used in terms of tired or beaten up but over the time Kerouac inflated and changed it to a higher level like “upbeat” or “beatific” and in terms of music “on the beat” (Hemmer, 2007, P.240). These writers all met in New York and they are also known as New York Beats even though only Corso was from New York. Although there were some less creative members to this group but those are the ones that brought up the writer’s subjects and supported their intellect. There was Huncke who was a drug-addict and a thief who introduced Burroughs to the junky world and the word “beat” (Gair,
Shortly after Christmas 2001, will.i.am created a loop and a guitar part that he liked. Since September 11 will.i.am was holding back some feelings that he had repressed. “Overseas we tryin’ to stop terrorism, but we still got terrorists here livin’, in the U.S.A , the big CIA, the Blood and the Crips and the KKK. The rest of the band members heard the track and wrote similar lyrics over it. Justin Timberlake also heard the track and immediately came up with the words “where is the love” and wrote and chorus.