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  • Violence I
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    HIp Hop today ig growing all over the world. Hip Hop is at it's highest stand-point as we speak. But one question comes along with this scene rio, and that's it's violence. Many hip hop artist today deal with the violence in the streets and shows. there are too many young people who watch these videos and take heed to whats going on in these videos with females shaking the butts. it is definitely not good for the children of today. we need more rappers like run doc, eric b and raki m and all tho...
  • Parks In The South Bronx
    312 words
    History of Hip Hop Believe it or not, rap has been around for over 23 years. In fact the first ever rap tune to be pressed on vinyl was 'Rapper's Delight', by the Sugar hill Gang in the late 70's. Since then rap has evolved from a fad to a street party. Rap music is an element of a larger culture that encompasses rap, baggy clothing, break-dancing, graffiti, vocabulary and a general lifestyle. This popular culture is generally referred to as hip-hop. Rap made its way to our shores in the early 1...
  • Rap Music And Hip
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    ... ugly cut across almost every ethnic boundary. Indeed, a significant number African American, Whites, Latinos, and Asians youth between the ages of 12 and 22 dress the same irrespective of their ethnicity. According to Russell Simmons, hip hop's first millionaire entrepreneur who is chairman and CEO of Rush Communications, states that one reason rap is so popular is because of the resistance it has met. The more resistance there is and the more controversy there is the more people are going t...
  • Germany Rap And Hip
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    Have you ever heard someone say, 'I hate all music. ' ? Lately though music has been criticized for corrupting teen's minds. Hip Hop is being blamed for all the crimes and murders in cities all over America and heavy metal is being blamed for giving teens only dark images and thoughts in their minds. First we must ask what Hip Hop is to us or to others, who simply don't know or may never feel our movement in society. This form of poetry and story telling has took growth from within a deprived Ne...
  • Edgar Allen Poe's Short Story Hop Frog
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    Differences in Film and Literature Today there are many differences between stories and film adaptations. When people read a book like Lord of The Rings they use one of the mind's greatest things, the imagination. When people read the story they imagine how the characters look, the way they act, where the story takes place, and other of the setting. Then when a movie such as "Lord of the Rings" comes out, they see the movie and see how the director has interpreted the story, many people are eith...
  • Popularity Of Hip
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    As an art form, hip-hop is a very young phenomenon. Originating in the South Bronx in the late 70's / early 80's, hip-hop itself is only ca. 20 years old. However, despite it's recent founding, it has become a tremendous influence on American culture and global culture as well. It has been a creative output for many people and gone down in history as one of the most important art forms to emerge in the last few decades. Hip-hop has borrowed from many earlier art forms, whether they be rock and r...
  • Hip Music
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    Sarah Ribeiro Hip Hop Stop It might be "hip" and even make you "hop", but as innocent as it may appear this hip music has hopped and entire generation into a world of drugs, sex and gang violence. Hip-hop or rap, is not only a genre of music, it is a language and a challenging lifestyle. From the distinct beats, the clothing and the seemingly aggressive use of language, it is almost undeniable that hip-hop influences its listener. The problem is that hip hop projects a certain image which can be...
  • Violent Murders Of Some Of Hip
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    1. Rap: Culture & Identity (introduction) Serious social critics could once dismiss hip hop's purveyors as a bunch of crude vulgarians extolling ghetto-centric lifestyles. In spite of this, Hip hop has become one of the most influential U.S. cultural exports. In every city on the planet, there are hip hop communities that not only have adopted the percussion-heavy music and spoken-word vocals, but have appropriated the sartorial and attitudinal style of the black and Latino youth who created the...
  • Rap Music And Hip
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    In the late 1970's a new, popular form of urban youth culture emerged in the Bronx, New York that changed the face of popular music and American culture. Throughout its development, hip-hop has become a vastly commercialized, inextricable component of popular American culture; however, it took the efforts of many pioneers and innovators to shape modern hip-hop culture and music. By exploring hip-hop's origins, one can better understand its evolution and its influence on different social groups t...
  • Kevin Powell And Joan Morgan
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    Our African American history has been shaped my many factors. We " ve been through trials and tribulations, slavery and lynching, and restriction from reading and writing. Through the times, many African Americans have excelled in all areas of society, literature in particular. James Baldwin and Octavia Butler are legends, but are still taught in the classroom today, Kevin Powell and Joan Morgan are relatively new to the scene, but good work is expected from them both. James Baldwin (1924-1987) ...

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