Chancelor Bennett, better known as Chance the Rapper, has made a sudden appearance in the world of rap since 2012 when he released his first album “10 Day”. Since then, Chance the Rapper has gained popularity with his albums “Acid Rap” in 2013, and most recently “Coloring Book” in 2016. Chance the Rapper is known for his quirky and free-flowing raps about things that are important to him, like his native city of Chicago, freedom, or even his faith. His creative process to make genius raps sometimes take weird directions and fully understanding how this artist makes music is very amazing. In Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast “Hallelujah” , Gladwell describes how certain genius creations can take different pathways to perfection. He compares Picasso …show more content…
Especially on the way he created “Acid Rap”. In an interview with HipHopDX, Chance the Rapper explains how acid rap was “less of a conceptual project”. “Acid Rap” was actually made mostly while on LSD or acid. Chance the Rapper continues to go on how he would do acid, find a beat he fell in love with, freestyle while on the acid, and then return at a later time when he wasn’t high. He explains that the acid allowed him to think about things he never would usually think about and be creative. After letting the acid high go away, Chance the Rapper would return and edit and tweak the “acid raps”. This is how his album “Acid Rap” came to …show more content…
The acid was the way he could think deeper and longer about some of the most important things in his life. Chancelor Bennett grew up in a rough neighborhood of southside Chicago. He raps of freedom, his faith in God, family, and the city he grew to love. In an interview with Billboard, Chance the Rapper explains that he starts with a either a theme, emotion, or narrative, and works from that. Chance the Rapper recently made a song as a tribute for the late Muhammad Ali to be performed at the ESPY Awards. In the interview with Billboard, Chance the Rapper explains that he imagined he was his mother, writing a letter to Muhammad Ali. Starting with that topic, Chancelor Bennett then imagines how her southside younger mother knew and respected Ali when he lived in Chicago near Chance’s
Tyrell Traylor was born october 31.1996 and raised on the southside of chicago. At a young age traylor used to watched many music videos and watching them fueled the start up for his love of music. At the beginning he was addicted to the catchy tune of jay-z’s “big pimpin” and soon he started learning the lyrics. sometimes by himself, traylor would imagined himself in concert freestyling his own lyrics. This is when traylor knew he found his own love for music and that there was the beginning of his passion.
A year later, he released his first tape “Clue #24” (1990) which gained big popularity and was played all around New York city, making DJ Clue one of the most popular DJs in the city. The diversity of his mixes started to attract more and more fans, leading to “Clue” putting together up to two hundred mix tapes within a seven-year period. Owing to that, he connected with Jay-Z’s “Roc-a-Fella Records”, which released his first major-label debut “The Professional” (1998). The record mostly displayed the biggest names of rap industry such as Nas, Mobb Deep, Ja Rule and DMX and their hits. During this period, “Clue” continued building his reputation through popular New York hip-hop station “Hot 97”.
First off, this can be seen on one of is quotes “Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.” Obviously, he is trying to explain how he is constantly bettering himself and how reflecting upon the past and making some things better is needed sometimes. Overall, Chance the rapper has many things that show that he can and has inspired many people around the world with his music and his words and knows what to say from his life lessons and from the people he knows and the people he has had interactions with so Chance the Rapper might be the most inspirational rapper of the young rappers that are releasing music right now and his music is a perfect way to express and show the way he feels about life and how to handle
Peterson Dorelus Enc1101 9:30 Tupac Shakur Tupac Amaru shaker was born in New York 1971; known by his stage name 2pac was an American rapper. ‘’Shakur received an education in radical politics from his mother, but he also saw some of life's hardships through her struggles with substance abuse’ ‘Tupac was like an Elvis to hip hop in my eyes. Tupac was known for his rapping, his many talents like acting, Also his beef between the East coast and the West coast. To begin, ’‘I hear Brenda's got a baby
Eminem 's alter ego, “Slim Shady” was a sensation, with his records on the top billboard, He was creating a new sound but mostly, hip-hop was evolving. Eminem’s raps consisted of mocking people like Will Smith, Britney Spears, and Jessica Simpson. He rapped about his hard life, which caught my attention. Things such as growing
J Cole’s music appeals to the mind of the listener, he raps about real life issues: more than heartbreak and love. He raps about real life experiences. He often raps about his experiences of being black and the discrimination that he has lived through. In his song, “No Role Modelz”, he says “I came fast like 911 in white neighborhoods, ain’t got no shame bout it”. He expresses that there’s a clear difference between how the justice department treats white people versus black people.
Since then, the sound has had a profound influence on the rap and pop music of today, with many of the biggest artists citing Chief Keef as an influence. According to L
In the article, Jenée mentions “ his music represented a part of me that was forced and privileged to confront what it meant to be black” even though she never met him his movements as an African, lyricist and rapper made an impact in her life. She mourned over his death with her friend Thea, another African
Hip Hop was the wildfire that started in the South Bronx and whose flames leapt up around the world crying out for change. James McBride’s Hip Hop Planet focuses on his personal interactions with the development of Hip Hop culture and his changing interpretations of the world wide movement. Many of his encounters and mentions in the text concern young black males and his writing follows an evolution in the representation of this specific social group. He initially portrays them as arrogant, poor, and uneducated but eventually develops their image to include the positive effects of their culture in an attempt to negate their historical misrepresentation.
INTRODUCTION I. Have you ever wondered if there will be a modern-day Tupac who will revolutionize rap forever? Well, there is somebody who could be the next Tupac. The person I'm talking about was
Hip-hop is an influential form of music that displays an artist’s honest and revealing story that many of the general public can relate to. One of the many songs that I can relate to is “Love Yourz” written by J Cole. The song talks about how Cole reflects on the most important things in life such as love and happiness. He realizes that the money and fame didn’t bring him the happiness he desired. To gain true happiness, he needed to appreciate himself and those that love him.
Using Jay-Z and Tupac as his inspiration, everyday J. Cole perfected his raps and enhanced his vocabulary and diction so that he could find interesting and creative ways to write his lyrics J.Cole Musical Influences. He saved his money to buy keyboards and drum sets as he continued to make his own beats and develop his own rapping style. Given that J. Cole has to work so hard to get to where he is at, he continues to be a very driven artist. J. Cole’s rapping style can be described as fast-paced and easy to follow. He writes his lyrics in a very assiduous way that leaves his listeners suspenseful.
Royalty cant buy you loyalty, tell me if I lose everything would you be over me? Hip-Hop, according to Dictionary.com is defined “The popular subculture of big-city teenagers, which includes rap music, break dancing and graffity art. Kodak Black, Kevin Gates and Lil Uzi Vert greatly contributes to this genre. Kodak Black greatly contributes to Hip-Hop. According to Wikipedia.org, Kodak Black’s music is frequently about “previous and future criminal misdeeds”, and he stated that he’s been influenced by rapper Boosie Badazz and Chief Keef.
Some of the main cores of Beat Street are the music, dancing, and graffiti art works – all of which are part of hip-hop culture. Scholars note that hip-hop as a movement originated in roots from African American traditions and are mainly used to express their culture as well as identity (Blanchard 24). Rap music, for example, comes from West Africa’s “nommo.” This idea refers to the power to deliver words to act upon objects and to bring it to life. The historical and traditional underpinning of rap, therefore, becomes representative of the rich and distinctive culture of African Americans.
This study addresses how self-made artists in the music industry uses marketing skills to help promote their music compared to the artists that are signed to a record label. Throughout this essay, I’m to going to analyze and compare Chance the Rapper’s sales to that of a well-known Hip/Hop artist J. Cole and the marketing schemes deployed by the upcoming artists in the music industry. Artists must learn to adapt to change constantly. They have to incorporate or amalgamate several marketing and promoting schemes to grow their audience organically.