Hip Hop Planet

In your article “Hip Hop Planet”, you write about the global impact of hip hop, and the powerful message it contains. You first came across hip hop at a party, and didn’t like it much. In fact you seem to hate it, until 26 years later, when you started to regret that you have missed a very important and cultural event. A vision is going through your head about your daughter falling in love with a rapper, which caused you to think twice about hip hop. Although, you don’t seem to like the sound and the beat from hip hop, you begin to realize how the lyrics contain powerful and meaningful messages. In the article, you talk about your first experience with hip hop, and your thoughts about it. You also describe the stereotypes of hip hop, and how

McBride begins the essay by telling the readers of his nightmare. He once feared that his daughter would arrive home one day with a stereotyped rapper husband with “ mouthful of gold teeth, a do-rag on his head… and a thug attitude” (McBride 1). He came to realize that he in fact, hip-hop, a genre that he once didn’t believe was music, had become one of the most known genres in the world. The speaker first heard his first rap song at a college party in Harlem in 1980. The jazz lover he was, cringed at the rap music he claimed to be so poorly thought out and written. For the next 26 years of his life, he went out of his way to avoid hip-hop music all together, as if It was never there in the first place.

The study of hip hop music has been cited well throughout its growth over time. The purpose of this paper is intended to discuss hip hop culture and address cultural stereotypes associated with rap and hip-hop music, but also how its original lyrical intentions were forms of expression and art. It will begin by guiding the reader through how it originated, its influence with the African-Americans with its subculture and popularity in urban areas, its styles of evolving, the introduction of hip hop and rap to the public, the depiction it gave off with its criticisms from outsiders. An evaluation of hip hop artists songs by Sugar Hill and the Gang, Run DMC, Queen Latifah, and N.W.A. Including lyrics from the songs “Rappers Delight”, “King of Rock”, “Latifah’s Law”, and “Niggaz4Life”. In the conclusion it exposes how hip hop music is clearly for black Americans to express themselves freely and in fact did not cause violence.

Hip-Hop and rap resurfaced in the Bronx, in the 70’s, around this time people in Bronx were going through, poverty, unemployment, increased crime, etc. Which caused them to have freedom of expression through rhyming; creating the meaning rap. Although the meaning of the word “Rap” original meant to strike or blow. Which in my opinion fits perfectly because they are striking mentally with words instead of physically. This genre is basically a form of

Some may say music is just music; a song is just a song. However, music plays an enormous role in our psychology, because a single song has the ability to bring about many kinds of thoughts and emotions in the listener. Music is subtly one of the main factors in which people identify with certain groups and establish their belonging in society. It shapes people’s perspectives on how the world functions and the roles they play within it. Music can function the same way in a culture; it can reflect many of the culture’s values and ideologies. Music can have many effects on culture and the people’s idea of who they think they are within that culture. Music can serve in a way that promotes cultural identity and pride, yet it could also play a

Throughout the many years of time, music has been associated with the lives of humans. Ranging from the oldest recorded music in 1888, The Lost Chord, to Motherese, or the way that mothers “sing” to their babies to communicate to them, to our modern music of radio stations blaring our favourite song while we drive from place to place. Music has found its place within human lives, intertwining its existence with ours. Incredibly enough, humans have found a way to harness music with our very hands and create elegant melodies from tools. Beginning with instruments that look like a guitar, instruments that look like a flute and instruments that look like a drum, we began making controlled music with rhythms and harmonies. As years passed and civilization began to grow, musicians came to be. These ancient musicians played music for others on the instruments that they would make and performed for many.

I have read your article ¨Hip Hop Planet¨ by James McBride from National Geographic regarding your thoughts on the meaning of Hip Hop and your experience with the genre. I understand that due to your past with Hip Hop, and the culture that it brings, you had the urge to write this article informing others about the true meaning of Hip Hop, and how it can be greatly misunderstood. You began with stating that you were frightened by the culture that the genre brought upon people and the actions that it encouraged, but later began to understand the message behind the music. Later on in the last few paragraphs, there were remarks about Hip Hop being your generation´s legacy, and that the message is only being understood by the children, with the

As furthest back that we can recall, there was Africa. It is from Africa that all of today’s Black American music whether it be Jazz, Rhythm and Blues Soul or Electro music etc., is either indirectly or directly descended from all African culture and tradition. Today, Hip-hop music in America is generally considered to have been pioneered out of New York 's South Bronx in the early 1970’s by a Jamaican-born DJ Herc. By the time mid-1970s, New York 's hip-hop gained wide-spread popularity and the scene was dominated by seminal turn-tablists DJs Grandmaster Flash, Herc and Afrika Bambaataa. The rappers of a group named “Sugarhill Gang” produced hip-hop 's first commercially successful hit, "Rapper

To get a better understanding of rap music and its origins, it is necessary to investigate within a larger historical framework of hip-hop, which derives from African American cultural aesthetic traditions and movements. Specifically, to understand hip-hop culture, one needs to know about the social and economic situations in the 1970s New York. In the beginning, hip-hop culture was a Black, Hispanic and male-dominated youth movement during the 1970s and the South Bronx was the most indigent neighbourhood in New York. Youth subcultures are usually about lifestyles which include one’s favourite choices regarding arts, fashion, books, and music. Rap music appeared as a cultural aesthetic expression of inner-city African-American juveniles in the Bronx, New York, during the late 1970s.

Hip-hop is a popular art form in today’s society, and it consists of rhyming lyrics that are delivered rhythmically over a musical beat. Knowing how far rap has come, from all the way back then starting out on the streets of New York in the mid 1970’s. Hip-hop has since become a multifaceted cultural force. It’s more than just music some people say and others think it is negative promoting bad things for young listeners.

Young people would perform, listen to, play hip hop music videos in the hallway TV at Malvern-Work, Poetic Justice, Started From the Bottom. When I would pass by the computer lab I would see many young people often on ‘World Star Hip Hop’ (an American content aggregate site with a hip hop focus often referred to as the ‘ghetto’s CNN’). This is just one of the many ways hip hop culture was pervasive in these young people’s lives. One of the most pervasive forms of artistic expression I found among young people was through rap. Rap is a mixed medium; it includes poetry, prose, song, music, theatre. It can come in the forms of narrative, autobiography, science fiction, or debate. Hip hop encompasses five core elements: emceeing/rapping, deejaying, graffiti art, break dancing, and ‘knowledge of self’ or the critical

When hip-hop artists first began adding social commentary into their lyrics, the zeitgeist of the times was a time of disenfranchisement, violence, poverty,

The history of rap originated from inner city kids who rapped about their everyday struggle that the world may not have seen eye to eye with. Kids from all over the country who’ve dealt with the struggles of drugs, violence, and everyday inner city problems. Being more than just the music rap became more as a culture and ways to express themselves. At the rise of people brutality, the a gangster rap group from South Central Los Angeles by the name of” N***** With Attitude” put out a protest song called “F*** Tha Police” to protest against police officers who were often harassing and abusing African American young adults at the time.

One can find music deeply embedded in their roots; as part of their everyday lives. As part of their lives music is a constant factor, its presence at the birth of a child and the death of a warrior are only two examples of how their music is made to fit their state of minds.

Throughout the world, there is a great deal of people who are considered of a higher standard, ranging from parents, who are held to a standard by their children, to the leader of a country. These people help to motivate an entire generation and instill hope in people. But not everyone agrees with these leaders. Despite this there is always something that everyone can relate to and that is music. Music is a language that everyone can understand through its ability to fill a gap that we all have. It is read and played the same across many countries and religions. It is not only something we can hear, but it is also something to escape from the reality of the world. The masterminds behind music are often underappreciated, but despite this there