Hip Hop Essays

Does rap/hip-hop music encourage negative behavior? Some people feel rap and hip-hop music encourages degradation of women, violence, and crime. Other people think that rap offers an opportunity for political commentary and self-expression. Also people argue that rap music provides valuable information to young listeners. They feel that it tells the story of the black […]

Tupac Shakur the Tragic figure Tupac was born in New York City, where he attended a prestigious Baltimore School of the Arts as a teenager that helped him launch his tragic career. Later on moved to Oakland California were the gangster rap started. He started out as a second-string rapper and dancer for Digital Underground, […]

The Don of Rap People often complain about how obnoxious hip/hop and rap are. However, those same people that claim these things have not heard the beauty or rawness of what rap truly stems from, emotion. Tupac Amaru Shakur brings an emotion in his music and through that emotion he brings a heavy influence to […]

Originally from Marcy Houses housing project in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City,[9] Jay-Z was abandoned by his father Adnes Reeves and shot his brother in the shoulder for stealing his jewelry[10] when he was twelve years old. [11] Jay-Z attended Eli Whitney High School in Brooklyn, along with rapper AZ, until […]

It is common to hear hip-hop and rap music played on local radio stations these days, but have you ever really taken the time to listen to some of the lyrics? You might be shocked at what is really being said behind those catchy rhythms. Lots of hip-hop and rap songs that are sung by […]

Part One In the article “The Hip Hop Impact on Japanese Youth Culture”, the author, Xuexing Liu, addresses the idea that hip hop has a global influence on youth culture and he portrays it by describing how hip hop has affected Japanese youth. Liu is an associate professor of Japanese which suggests that he might […]

The Real Life of T. I. Rap music has become popular among teens since the 1990s. Teens listen to rap because they like the beat and lyrics. Many teens in inner cities relate to rap music because it shows life in the real world. The successful reality rapper, T. I. aka Clifford Harris, has risen […]

However, he remained an excellent student and athlete, Knight went to college on a sports scholarship, and played football as a replacement player for the ‘Oakland Raiders’ during the ‘NFG strike of the early 1 ass’s. He then retired from professional sports and entered the music Industry as a celebrity bodyguard, working for Bobby Brown […]

Solo Recital Essay could interpret a lot of repeated sounds and notes during this recital. Depend ding on the song the performer was playing determined the tempo. For instance, at s mom parts of the songs where it was supposed to be fun and happy, the tempo would be relate vela fast with a lot […]

It all started with the birth of a nation. The shameful crimes that build this country rest on the backs of an enslaved people, yesterday in chains and with laws and today behind bars and within socialization. The tale is as old as our time. The first slaves were brought to the Virginia Colony in […]

In order for one to understand the genre of Hip-hop, one must know the origination, the changes over the years, and the impact hip-hop has on today’s society. Hip-hop has been around for more than a few decades and it has been considered to be one of the most controversial subjects for quite some time. […]

A Disc Jockey is a person who plays out pre- recorded songs using compact discs, vinyl or tape depending on what they prefer. The music genre that the Dj decides to play out all depends on what type of crowd he’s in front of and what pleasures himself. Dj’s can be heard at many places […]

Tupac Shakur 1971-1996 Born: June 16, 1971 in New York, New York, United States Died: September 13, 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States Ethnicity: African American Occupation: Rap Musician, Musician, Actor “Don’t shed a tear for me … / I ain’t happy here / I hope they bury me and send me to my […]

Through the years, hip hop has evolved not just as a popular music genre but as an emergent subculture in American society.  Although it may be considered by many as a combination of other cultural forms, most of these are of purely African and Caribbean origins, the ultimate result of such melding cannot be argued […]

African-American music has continued to evolve in the face of diehard musical currents since the 1950s. Floyd (1995) is curious about the effect of political, social and artistic currents on the constant growth and concurrent stagnation of African-American Music (p.11). This paper therefore aims to discuss the continuity and change in African-American music from slavery […]

While Hip-Hop is a relatively new cultural movement that is largely prevalent all over the world now, it originates in much earlier Black North American history as far back as the era of enslavement. It is still misunderstood as solely a form of music although it is rather an entire culture consisting of dance, “deejaying”, […]

The article “In Defense of Hip-Hop” was an article written by Cathleen Rountree. Rountree claims hip-hop is unfairly made the scape goat of violent words and acts by Congress and other “bastions of self-righteousness” (para. 1). Rountree uses comparison by comparing the way some individual claim “Hip Hop made me do it” to a popular […]

Crystal Smith once wrote that “Images of black women in hip-hop culture make it more likely for them to be viewed as targets to be defaced and abused. ” This statement is confirmed true there are many African American women in the hip-hop culture that are disrespected or abused in some type of way during […]

Abel Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990), better known by his stage name The Weeknd, is an R&B Canadian recording artist and record producer of Ethiopian descent. Songs recorded under The Weeknd uploading them to YouTube in late 2010, though the identity of the individual behind the project was initially unknown.  In March 2011, The Weeknd […]

Fiasco, along with rappers Common, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli, has been credited as a pioneer of the conscious hip hop movement, which focuses on social issues. Subjects touched upon on Lupe Fiasco’s Food & Liquor include absent parents, terrorism, Islam and religion, war, and prostitution. Fiasco attributes his interest in social issues to his […]

On the day of May 5, 1989 Christopher Maurice was born in Tappahannock, Virginia but little did he know that he would become number one in his lifelong hip hop & RnB life style. Growing up Chris listened to his mother and father soul albums but later discovered more of his type of music in […]

Rhythm and Blues (R&B) originated from the blues, just as most African American music derives itself in some form from the Deep South’s work music. In both Hip Hop and R&B, it is with the Blues that they attributed to adhering to, and it is with the Blues that the cadence and lyrics of R&B, […]