Lee Na-young Essays

How does Eminem use language to let people know who he is? As a teenage dropout, Eminem found a way to express his passion for language, as well as to release his youthful anger, through the emerging musical genre of hip-hip. In many of his raps, he displays his verbal prowess, wit and flair of storytelling through his use of sophisticated language. This is primarily seen in his solo rap, “The Way I Am”, released in 2000. His rap song “The Way I am” expresses how fame and admiration can both

artists have for their crafts. A prime example is a rapper by the name of Nasir Jones, or, better known by his stage name, Nas. Nas left school after 8th grade against his mothers wishes to pursue a rap career. What he lacked in basic Math, English, and Science skills he made up for with his self-motivated studies in language and history, mainly pertaining to African American history. Nas even went as far as spending time reading the dictionary to expand his vocabulary that he could incorporate in his intricate

be accepted more as an artist. Conrad Sewell have slowly climbed the music food chain and worked with several bag shot songwriters in hopes of coming-up with his own studio album on the likes of Jamie Hartman, Sam Hollander, Eric Rosse and Brian Lee. He then managed to release his debut single entitled Hold Me Up, which received fairly general accolades from listeners and music experts. All I Know, his first studio album slash extended play, have been released in November 2015 under 300 Entertainment

Growing up on the 979, I always listen to my brother Tin (who never nguyens) listening hip hop/rap from artist like Jay-Z and Notorious B.I.G. Listening to hip hop made me like the genre more and ended up listening to other artist such as Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, N.W.A you know the good stuff. So I basically grew up listening to late 90’s early 2000’s hip-hop. But now I’ve noticed that hip-hop has gone from that storytelling express your feelings and emotions vibe to that Money, Sex, Hoes vibe.

Drake Releases Diss Song, Ghostwriter Speaks It 's been a pretty messy week in music, and we can blame the MTV Video Music Awards for that! In all seriousness, who knew the award nominations would cause such a ruckus? While most of the "beefs" have somewhat been resolved, the controversy involving Meek Mill and Drake has just been turned up another notch. For some unforeseen reason, Mill decided to call out his "friend" Drake for having a ghostwriter. Mill simply tweeted the name "Quentin Miller

“Beyond Beats and Rhymes” Summary This movie was a broad discussion about hip-hop music (or more specifically gangster rap) and what kind of social issues the music not only showcases but seems to promote. The producer of this film, Byron Hunt, interviewed people involved in all aspects of the hip-hop industry, including famous rappers, to try to get to the bottom of this. Some of the most prominent issues discussed in the film were the over-sexualization of women, gun violence, and anti- homophobic

In the article “Hip-Hop Planet” by James McBride he explains first about the nightmare he has of his daughter coming home with a young reckless rapper guy with tattoos and golden teeth and McBride for a moment is taken back to the past when he was young and it comes to thought that he was in this young wanna be rappers shoes. As he goes on with life he contemplates of how his rap days are over but in time he comes to realize that he himself will still be surrounded with the cool beat sound of one

Not only has the evolution of hip hop has changed, but the type of hip hop artist has changed also. Back when hip hop was more positive and had a true meaning you could listen to the music and become inspired. Nowadays the artist that makes music aren’t really making music. It’s not about love and peace anymore it’s all about dollar signs, guns, gangs, and drugs. and that is a reason why most rappers these days make poor music. For example a lot of rappers you hear today rap about guns and drugs

listeners to make positive decisions. Today, in especially rap music, drugs are glorified. Teens are constantly exposed to misleading images of drugs from the media and can have a lasting impact their ideology. With every song, music video, or movie, a young teen is listening or watching something that persuades them to think a certain way. However, Macklemore instead advocates for his audience and urges them to avoid his past mistakes. Macklemore’s music video for his song, “Otherside” is effective in

Lastly, rap music should not be stereotyped as meaningless noise that has no purpose other than for something that drug addicts and gangsters can vibe with. Mainstream rap has been known for its simplistic couplets that glorify drugs, violence, and sex with multiple women. These lyrics are so simple that a kindergartener can write them. Unfortunately for rap as a whole, this became the characteristics that people first think of when they think of rap. But not all rappers make simple music. Rappers

Moreover, some well-known inspirational artist are J Cole, Kendrick lamar, Nas, Jay-Z, Tupac Shakur, and The Notorious B.I.G. For instance, the J Cole song ‘Love Yours’ provides an inspirational message that says, “There's No Such Thing As A Life That's Better Than Yours.” This quote itself allows the listener to reflect and

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. Power is a drama series as well, and is based on a drug-dealer named James, otherwise known as "Ghost." Ghost is a current drug dealer, in hopes of becoming "clean." He does this

2. Rap Voice: “Hip-Hop is Something We Live and Rap Is Something We Do” KRS-One The majority of people mix between Rap and Hip-Hop as being the same thing; however, Rap is the best known and most widely practiced art of the four elements of Hip-Hop culture. In other word Hip-Hop is the umbrella that holds the multifaceted arts of which Rap is just a part, where the Rapper is set to be the poet and Rap is his poetry of this varied culture. The term Rap mainly signifies singing or speaking rhythmically

local figure to a worldwide icon representing his OVO Sound label on a global scale. Former Degrassi star, Aubrey Graham entered the music industry under the alias, Drake, in 2007. Only two short years later, Dwayne Carter Jr. - known as Lil Wayne of Young Money Entertainment, signed him to his label. There were many ups and downs while working

Hip hop and rap music has been entertaining people of all ages, genders, and races for many years. One artist, who writes and produces this type of music, is Luke Boyd, better known as Classified. He was first acquainted to rap music when he was a little boy, and as a result, he began producing his own music. He began releasing albums and singles as early as the 90’s. Originally from Enfield, Nova Scotia, Canada, Classified has been nominated and has won many awards throughout his career (Cordor)

Regarded as a hip-hop classic from rap artist Drake, “Started From the Bottom” recounts young Drake’s shift from rock bottom to his rise to fame. Though not all share the same global success as Drizzy, his story conveys a familiar‒ and almost universal‒ journey of one’s lowest lows to highest highs, something ingrained in the human lifetime. Drake utilizes repetition throughout the song, echoing his chant, “Started from the bottom, now we're here.” He follows this with a comparison between childhood

With two platinum tracks in his resume: Drowning and My Shit, many people have been waiting for him to drop debut album. On September 29, 2017 he released his debut album “The Bigger Artist”. He is a ascending star in the hip hop industry at the young age of twenty one. The artist’s name is Julius Dubose, famously known by his stage known A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie is a hip hop artist from the Bronx, New York. A Boogie started rapping when he was twelve years old. At this age

Some famous and well-known Christian rappers are Lecrae, Andy Mineo, Trip Lee, KB, Flame, Derek Minor, Propaganda, and more. These are artists out there who actually have stories of why they are rappers and how their lives without Christ were nothin but disappointments until they finally realized that Jesus was the key to life's

On his other album, Good Kid M.A.A.D City, he tells his life story as a young black man growing up in Compton, California and how how he battled the temptation of drugs, violence, and falling victim to the system. On one track, The Art of Peer Pressure, he talks about everyday life and how he fell to the pressure. He explains

On May 16, 2007 T.I. and 50 Cent, two of the most well-known and idolized rap artists, professed their thoughts on the controversial desire of urban leaders to omit the words, “‘b*tch,’ ‘ho,’ and the N-word,’” from hip-hop artist’s vocabulary during a press conference announcing the 2007 BET nominees (Mitchel). Fortunately, the controversial desire obviously failed in its push to omit certain words from the rap vocabulary, as rappers today frequently utilize the terms; however, language and phrases