Hip Hop Vs Rap Culture

Beyonce is a very popular Artist who has really made herself stand out by her talented voice. She has gone through a lot of transformations in the music that she presents to the public. With Her album, “Lemonade,” was a huge hit which was critisizing and comparing her experience as a black women since she was a teen to the emotional stages she went through in her life as how she kind of brings fourth the feelings of emptiness and rejection she has felt. In her albums you can tell that she has always made music for a reason and cause, but not just for entertainment. When she was a teenager she joined her first group which was called the “Distiney’s Child which went throgh a lot of ups and down until it actually came in notice by a lot

Marilyn Monroe first real name was Norma Jeane Mortenson. She was a girl who was neglected by her ill mother. Norma Jeane first started out as a model even though she was not a size zero. Men still desired her looks and this made other girls think that they do not have to be super

The culture of music has evolved now for many years. The genres of music offered for entertainment purposes are endless. While music can define someone, music can also help alleviate certain emotions. How, you may ask? Right?

The show Girlfriends help me realize how much influence the media can have on its audience. The show allowed various narratives of an underrepresent group to be shared on television. The show didn’t play into racial stereotypes that constantly follow black women in the media and made the characters generally relatable to its audience. The show was able to go against negative stereotypes that constantly are placed on black women and present positive representation. Despite the show going off the air over a decade ago there is still a need for

Critical response to the song was mixed; some found the lyrics clichéd and dull, while others called the song catchy and a "new kind of equality anthem". Swift is donating all proceeds from the sale of the single to the New York City Department of Education. * "You Ain’t Gotta Lie (Momma Said)” by Kendrick Lamar, the song is based along the lines of “the loudest in the room, is the weakest in the room”. Those who tell don’t know and those who know don’t tell. It’s a powerful message of the purgatory that entertainers and rappers can enter if they are not stratospherically successful, but not anonymous enough to return to their hood without recieving attention from everyone they

Everyone has a few hurdles to jump over, in the process of running to their success. As a black woman Rice had to face the indignities for the color of her skin. Again as a woman going up against men for two sexist positons that most men believe should be held by men. I commend Rice on the power move of holding those positions as

For every positive female role model, two negative ones can be found” (Lavin 97). Women in comics portray a sexualized representation of the female body, with a strong focus on women as sexual objects rather than women. The trend of objecticifty women in comics has continued since the first superheroine Wonder Woman was first introduced in comics because it is profitable and it is

Misogynoir is so prevalent in many cultures, even the seeming universal ones such as pop culture and entertainment. In our entertainment and media it is presented through stereotypes. Black people have been the butt of the joke, their character’s sole being was based off a cliche scripted standard, never diving into the multifacet people they are capable of being. They are categorized into tiring tropes that are hurtful and insensitive.

She embodies a typical popular girl stereotype who enjoys overindulging in “retail therapy”, appears ditzy and vain and like most female stereotypes cannot properly drive a car. However, as the audience advances further into the movie they learn that she actually contradicts those stereotypes, or at least in the sense that she is not the average popular girl who is out to sabotage everyone. She enjoys helping others, makes good grades, is assertive without being too bossy, and even proudly boast her virginity. In comparison, Tai’s character is stereotyped as a less desirable, specifically amongst the popular kids. This is evident as she stands out from the crowd based upon her mediocre attire, heavy Bronx accent, references to drug use and general lack of understanding of cliques at the school.

Salt N Pepa is an American hip-hop trio formed by Cheryl James, Sandra Denton and DJ Spinderella. They are the first all female rap crew and they have big influences in women hip-hop. (Anwar) The song ‘None Of Your Business’ talks about double standards on women and women should have the equal right with men. (BUSTLE)

There is no sign that hip hop has any plans to clean up its vulgar image, it is safe to say that the industry has been put on notice (“Taking Back the Music”). This subject is often blown off, due to no one seeing it as a big deal. Music is music to most people, and can often cause people to not see issues as they really are. According to African-American teenagers, they are beset about the dangerous myths of their race. The most poisonous one defines the achievements of whites while embracing violence, illiteracy, and drug dealing as “authentically” black.

Pop culture has affect not only the African American women by labeling with the word bitch but has put them out in movies, music videos, and television as the women that rappers created and set the label for them. Not only it affects the African American women but also the Latinas, who have also been label not bitchy but

Then there was Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk who met their career demise in the early nineteen forties. But Williams, in continuing to outdo herself, also outdid these heroes of her time in several crucial respects: she played better in her sixties than she ever did, reaching an artistic fulfillment in the nineteen-seventies that was due to the triple coincidence of external circumstances of the music world, those of her personal life, and those of her own creative evolution (The New Yorker). I admire Mary Lou Williams’s strength, persistence and talent, what did in her era was monumental. Being a woman. African-American, composing and arranging music; as well as leading a band was not a common thing back in her time.

Introduction: Thesis statement - Since becoming the first solo female rapper to release a full album in a male dominated genre of music and MCs, MC Lyte has shown that she can compete with the guys. She is not only the first female solo rapper ever nominated for a Grammy, she is also an actress, music executive, DJ, host, public speaker, and female activist. Purpose: The intention is to research some facts of MC Lyte and compare them to other rappers that have common ideas.

And that goes for any vulgar words. People who get offended by words in my opinion are making a big deal out of nothing. But the n-word is becoming more and more common. Yes, it used to be a word that has haunted many generations of African American people. However, among many people today this word can mean “friend.”