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Summary Of How # Blacklivesmatter Movement

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Summary: Tate’s main argument he makes in How #BlackLivesMatter Changed Hip Hop and R&B, is that thanks to the #BlackLivesMatter movement, both twitter and hip hop are now two effective tools in providing a voice for the Black community, who's voices are silenced by White America. Tate argues because of “the communication revolution of #BlackLivesMatter, those once-voiceless masses no longer require rappers for their social-injustice priorities to be heard from the dogg house to the White House” (para. 3). He argues that the two main themes that have been present within Black lives throughout history and is still relevant today, is resistance with singing and fighting, or what Tate defines as SingFight. Tate explains the use of overt and covert SingFight songs as protest anthems throughout history, prompting racial justice movements including artists: Nina Simone, James Brown and Marvin …show more content…

Commercial hip hop is too blindsided by making profit to assist in the rallies for Black justice the same way that hip-hop proper is doing. #BLM has liberated rap from its default setting today, and is beginning to break the white stereotype that hip hop is defined as a consumer market where “rhyming negro gentleman callers and ballers sold vernacular song and dance to an adoringly vicarious and increasingly whiter public” (para.6). Tate concludes with stating that #BLM’s “reclamation of hip-hop proper has brought complexity and revolutionary street cred back to the race conversation in commercial rap. The public can no longer be sold the noxious and recherché notion that 21st-century rap culture is only about trap-happy nigras getting paid for getting dumb, or coldstoopidwackretarded, even. Thanks to #BlackLivesMatter, the beautiful struggle against racialized injustice once again matters where rap and hip-hop proper live” (para

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