Informative Essay On Hip Hop Culture

King Kunta: The Rise of a Kid That Had Nothing     The song “King Kunta” by rapper Kendrick Lamar is very catchy song about Kendrick’s rise to the top of the rap game and the his resistance to selling out like many rappers do. He really uses ethos strongly in this song to get people to listen to what he is saying and to get his message across to those people. His audience is mainly young people between the ages of 15 and 30, but his music reaches a very wide spread community of people. The name of the song, “King Kunta”, is an oxymoron - Kendrick thinks he is still being oppressed like a slave, while still being dominant and rich like a king. It contrasts the lowest and the highest levels of society.

Finally, this essay will analyze how “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” represents features of hip hop culture which is a big part of the American culture, and its issues that it has throughout the country. Thus, by analyzing this documentary in details, the essay will answer the following research question: How documentary “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes” by Byron Hurt portray male identity within Hip Hop? How documentary by Byron Hurt is made to present the topic.

The term ‘twerk’ recently made it into the Oxford dictionary. Twerking became popular because of rap music and music

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.

The Rap Plague The world of hip-hop would invite you to believe that rap music provides a poetic way to communicate one’s life experiences through music. In some ways this could be true, but what do you hear that sounds very poetic to you? Every day, people all around the world are listening to music. Music has become a big part in today’s society.

Through the inferred meaning and evolution of hip hop from a class in America that was often deemed lower and inspired revolution and power, this language of power and revolution was strongly related to several grandfathers of Rap and Hip-hop that inspired Miranda throughout the process that helped form dynamics and subtle backstories of characters, so much that he went on to extend these inspirations to the casting call and role summaries exposed to the public. The history-making soundtrack will become an anthem and inspiration for future generations of revolutionaries. The language of Rap was extraordinarily used by Miranda and effectively connected people who wouldn’t usually connect to the story of the founding fathers of what became a suppressive system that nurtured the birth of the revolutionary language that spoke out against it. Hamilton: An American Musical embodies America in the historical aspect of the founding fathers and the modern America that resulted from their actions in an elegant

Now even though it no longer solely represents the same culture it was started in, it still represents a culture, no matter which. I believe that the start of hip-hop in the Bronx was more of the foundation that was laid out, and allowed more MC’s from different parts of the world to show their talent and their message to their specific culture that they were raised

Throughout the past years hip hop and rap artists use their music to express their views, opinions, and how they are feelings in their songs. From the artists lyrics someone will have an understanding of what the artist is talking about; because either they have done the same things or they are having the same problem. The first amendment of the constitution is freedom of speech and that’s what a hip hop artist is doing. Though hip hop music has influenced our culture positively. Hip hop also perpetuate violence towards young people as well.

1. Introduction
This study deals with the employment of profanities such as fuck, nigger, motherfucker, bitch and shit in the selected rap lyrics by the famous former hip hop group, N.W.A .To be specific, N.W.A is an acronym for Niggaz With Attitude that was formed in 1987 by 5 members: Eazy-E, Ice Cube, Dr Dre, MC Ren and DJ Yella (Ogg and Upshal 1999, 115). Rap is a unique genre of music that has a wide fan base located in different parts of the world. It consists of rhymes, rhythm and written lines. Historically, the music of N.W.A provoked great discussions when they released Straight Outta’ Compton in 1988.

Hip Hop and rap are a music genre consisting of a styled rhythm music that commonly accompanied by rap. Rap is a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted, during rap artists usually speak about society, what wrong, or what bothering the individual. Hip-Hop and rap started in The Bronx, New York by among African American youths that as well resided in the city. However, as music and more artists started coming out becoming fairly known the expansion and genre of what we call hip hop and rap expanded and many started getting influenced by the words that artists sung and begin following dreams of their own in becoming artists.

Both groups are excellent with samplings. At the time in which sampling became the mainstream, people worried that whether this will lead hip-hop music to innovation or regression. According to Perry, “hip-hop music concerns itself with both the self and the we” (Perry 31). I think both group presented their creativity in their songs. In Fight the Power, Public Enemy uses samples from Different Strokes by Syl Johnson, Funky Drummer by James Brown and Fight the Power by The Isley Brothers (“Public Enemy - Fight the Power”).

We have all heard some type of music, but have you ever wondered where some of it comes from? There are many genres of music in today’s world like pop, country, gospel, rock, electronic, and my favorite, hip hop. In this paper, you will learn about everything hip hop, including topics like its early stages, how it was invented, and its evolution throughout the decades. After the invention of the Printing Press during the Industrial Revolution, rap and hip hop music became popular due to the population of African Americans in the United States, giving people a voice to express themselves, and mainstream artists. After the Emancipation Proclamation being passed by Abraham Lincoln, African Americans became free to do whatever they chose, which included making music.

All I Want Is Power and an Empire Televised series such as Empire and Power, have widely become popular in our youth and it’s no secret that they correspond in several ways. Empire is an American drama based on a hip-hop entrepreneur, Luscious, who started his own record label company under illegal drug money. As a young juvenile, Luscious devoted his life to running the streets and producing music. His mission is to bolster the Empire he created, but during this process, there are prisoners, old street thugs, the wealthy, and even family eager to take it all down.

• conclusions about the similarities and differences between the two artists “No two rappers rapped the same even when reciting the same rhyme”. (The History Of Hip Hop written by Davey D ). Rap is a style that forces each rapper to be different and that 's why the younger generation likes it. Not only did they shape hip-hop the genre, they also helped to shape the culture that goes along with it, everything from what we think and how we dress.

A passage that demonstrates border crossing in Unit 5 is "Hip Hop Planet" by James McBride. This article examines a global phenomenon that crosses economic, racial, and geographical borders. James McBride, once a critic himself, is impacted by the rich history and culture of Hip Hop. Originally, James McBride dislikes the genre describing one of his most disturbing fears as having his daughter marry a rapper. It isn't until after he learns the history of Hip Hop that he respects and appreciates the music.