... because it is dominated by blacks. We know this is far from the truth. In recent years there has been an explosion of rap music in pop culture and artists of all backgrounds are topping the charts. However rap artists continue to be arrested on drug charges, assault both sexual ... habits were stable during the 12 months, and researchers found that those who were unemployed and under less parental supervision showed a greater exposure to rap music (The Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, 2003). At the 12 months follow up, Wingood et al. found that 37.6 percent had con...

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... #2 03/14/03 Some music songs stand the test of time and some don't. Some in fact stand the test of times and are so good or have suck good beats that other artist will ... all of these also sampled beats from previous songs. Most of the time when a Rap artist will do this he will use the beats of a song that was not a tremendous pop hit. But this was not the case with rapper Eminem AKA Slim Shaddy when he produced a song called Sing For The Moment on his newest album The Eminem Show. This ... wanted to do that as well. In each of these songs if you listen and take time to feel the mus...

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... that has contributed more to our society in any other way than music genre? What about a pop culture that have a positive influence on some parts of the country and yet be portrayed as a negative influence among the rest of America? What about a culture that has taken over ... a frenzy? This culture can take on many different art forms that allow several different types of people to participate in regardless of ethnicity: whether it is the highly scrutinized rap music, the beautiful art form of graffiti, the creative art of break dancing, or the ever so complicated art of dj-ing. If yo...

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... the video more appealing to a larger audience, specifically male. Combined with the songs" melodies and lyrics, music videos along with the images of artists in pop culture today are powerful tools that can tattoo human minds and shape the attitudes of many. With this ... in mind, this paper will analyze the potential affects that the rap video, "Beautiful" can have on society. (Used to illustrate the song lyrics of Snoop Dogg, a rapper whose lyrics are usually sexually explicit and violent). In order to prove that music ... entertaining action programs to news programs create ideologies...

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... around in absolutely nothing and are used as sexual objects, while the rap artist himself refers to them as his "bitches". With rap music breaking into mainstream pop culture, it is expected to push the limits of free speech. In the beginning of rap and Hip Hop there was no "bling ... the small, suburban towns dotting the pathways between its bigger urban destination."2 White people who mostly populated suburbia were now getting a taste of this new music. To add to the new phenomenon, a group called "The Beastie Boys" which consisted of three Jewish kids from New York had sprung onto th...

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... acts as, RUN-DMC, De La Soul, The Beastie Boys, Ice-T, and LL Cool J. RUN-DMC was among the first rap groups to climb the pop charts in a major way, they also were among the first to make incursions into the Rock-n-Roll element, when they teamed up with Aerosmith's Stephen Tyler ... Way." The beastie boys on the other hand, were White ex-Punkers gone Hip-Hop, and with their raucous style and rebellious behavior, managed to bring Rap music to a whole new group of listeners... White Middle-Class America. This exposure opened up a whole new can of worms, that of which still to this day ......

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... , life ain't nothin' but bitches and money" appalled many listeners with its profoundness and explicitness. In response to the controversy risen by Rap, KRS frontman Chuck D once memorably described rap music as "black people's CNN" - the only medium in which black voices could tell the truth in a white-dominated country". As Rap's controversial subjects and lyrics continued to escalate, its immense ... Pistols, "Submission" were blamed for corrupting America's highly influenced teenagers. Punk-rock lyrics introduced a new frankness of expression in matters both political and sexual. At ...

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... after the creation of Mtv. Since Mtv's introduction as part of the "pop" culture, it has evolved to include all types of music, from rock -n- roll to love songs to hip-hop. Videos used to help the listeners/fans interpret the artists' songs, now the videos just ... the work of promoters and record labels in an effort to sell more and more albums. Sometimes the artists have their hands tied in the way the music is promoted. These marketing tactics are probably dictated by someone in an office in some building in New York. But as distasteful these videos may be, ... video can get away w...

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... reference to factors which can deteriorate our brain and erode us severely. Such erosive factors reverberate through T.V, magazines, or books, but majority will agree that rap music does play a large role. Today's Artist has continued their ceaseless act of degrading women, using profanity, and most commonly their endless brag of money cars, ... filled with cocaine residue" which exposes him to be a drug attic, of which he seems to be heedless about. As I previously declared in my introduction music has indeed infect the up coming Generation. In the heat beating sun of this month I had m...

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... repopularized. During the mid-1980s, rap moved from the fringes of hip-hop culture to the mainstream of the American music industry as white musicians began to embrace the new style. In 1986 rap reached the top ten on the Billboard pop charts with "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (To Party!)" by the Beastie Boys and "Walk This Way" by Run ... -DMC and Aerosmith. Known for incorporating rock music into its raps, Run-DMC became one of the first rap groups to be featured regularly ... , released the singles "The Show Stoppa" (1985) and "Push It" (1987); "Push It" reached the top 20 on Bill...

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... ideals of communism. Culturally, artists broke away from the traditional way of painting and developed new genres such as cubism, expressionism, and surrealism. Music in the twentieth century was not immune from this departure from tradition. The disc jockey, or DJ, is one of the many tradition breaking ... inch disc as opposed to a seven inch discs (Frick). Also around this time an exciting new form of DJing called turntablism is created. All music classified as hip hop is a direct byproduct of turntablism (Wegner). Turntablism can best be described as a movement where completely new so...

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... . An increase in violence, sex, and disrespect in modern music reflects the increase in violence, sex, and disrespect in the modern pop culture. This is the view of younger black Americans. Older Americans feel that the violent and sexually explicit music is the cause of such chaos and degradation of our society ... considerably with the generations. Older black Americans fought for rights that the hip-hop community takes for granted. Racism is much more subtle in this pop culture; and we don't fight against it because we don't know how. We're not taught how to continue the struggle. All...

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... b-boying, graffiti, dj-ing, and lastly emceeing or commonly known as rapping. With out these elements, they shouldn't even classify what they call their music as Hip-Hop. Emcees used to make their records with passion, with their lyrics based on their life experiences, emotions and aspirations. Now most of Hip ... these videos and now that is what sells. Money, money, its all about the money now. Not about the true love for making hip-hop music, music that was originally made to speak your mind and for b-boys to dance to and deejays to spin and make cuts. People today need to ... Eminem...

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... should be respected and honored. I feel it is exciting and inspiring. I can never get bored with it because there is always room to improve and new music to connect with. There will always be room for more beats, smoother moves, among other things. I am showing the world me, and who I am ... prepared. The stage had very good lighting. It created a great theater atmosphere for the hip-hop dancers. Each school would have a specific theme in music, costume and style of dance. It was great to see such positive and fierce competitors. Many schools danced hip-hop and some also incorporated jaz...

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... LP, had sold over 7 million copies. Michael Green, President and CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, told the Grammy audience, music like Eminem's is "the voice of rebellion." The Grammy"s had set out to fully censor Eminem. Fortunately the celebrities of the evening did not pay ... gave the hero a sympathetic hug on stage at the end of the song. (Doherty 2 para.). There are still many other areas and sides to music that have faced the inspection of censorship. Take for example the sale and distribution of records. The government cannot ban a song, but Wal-Mart c...

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... the DJ's offered their crowd turned into little rhymes. At the time, they were not called rappers or lyricists but rather "emcees." "Rap is a type of music, Hip- hop is a way of life."- KRS- one KRS- one is one of the longest- standing, most influential lyricists. Since 1984, he has been spreading ... gangster rappers are not glorifying violence but rather providing an accurate depiction of what life on the streets is like for them. This type of music is still enjoyed but not as widely popular as it was during the life of Eazy and other influential gangster rapper- Tupac Shakkur. Eazy die...

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... certain topic. Each and every audience members should be able to distinguish the rights and wrongs of each topic. There were many influences of rap music as early as the 1940's but it never really started developing in the 1970's. Urban DJ's started to manipulate records to make scratching rhythms ... by samplers. Also in 1986, rap music was starting to be played on television. MTV (Music Television), allowed access for Caucasian people to listen to rap music. MTV is still being played around the world with daily countdowns of rap, hip-hop, R&B, Rock, and Pop music. This cable channel a...

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... certain topic. Each and every audience members should be able to distinguish the rights and wrongs of each topic. There were many influences of rap music as early as the 1940's but it never really started developing in the 1970's. Urban DJ's started to manipulate records to make scratching rhythms ... by samplers. Also in 1986, rap music was starting to be played on television. MTV (Music Television), allowed access for Caucasian people to listen to rap music. MTV is still being played around the world with daily countdowns of rap, hip-hop, R&B, Rock, and Pop music. This cable channel a...

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... certain topic. Each and every audience members should be able to distinguish the rights and wrongs of each topic. There were many influences of rap music as early as the 1940's but it never really started developing in the 1970's. Urban DJ's started to manipulate records to make scratching rhythms ... by samplers. Also in 1986, rap music was starting to be played on television. MTV (Music Television), allowed access for Caucasian people to listen to rap music. MTV is still being played around the world with daily countdowns of rap, hip-hop, R&B, Rock, and Pop music. This cable channel a...

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... It was invented by either Grand Master Flash or Grand Wizard Theodore, who were both DJs from the Bronx. Rapping is saying rhymes to the beat of music. It was originally called emceeing. Rap draws its roots from the Jamaican art known as toasting, along with old "dozens" rhymes and jail house jargon ... the B-Boys and the original members of the Zulu Nation are credited for making it popular. At the same time, another style of hip hop dance called "pop locking" surfaced. This style of dance included strutting, moon-walking, waving, and angular, robot-like contortions of the body. Grafitt...

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... since its conception, they will tell you that it is a culture filled with enrichment and enlightment in several different aspects. Its creativity spans from music to clothing and beyond. At first it was categorized as a unique way for the urban community to express its talents, but soon developed ... is hardly a major consumer company around that isn't trying to cash in on hip-hop's popularity, if not its edgy authenticity. Hip-hop music, and its signature style: rap, emerged from mostly impoverished, predominately black urban neighborhoods, grew into an entire way of life, and dominate...

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... a mixer could be use as a form instrument? Who would have thought that by moving the record back and forth could create its own class of music? Most people get Rap and Hip-Hop mixed up. Rap and Hip-Hop are two total different things. When you refer to Rap you are referring to ... of the century began the musical evolution. It was a simple musical output device. The role of this musical component was greatly regarded as that of just a music player during the early 19th century. When the first record was introduced to the world, it was made for one main reason, entertainment. Records and r...

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... go from more provocative to downright nasty until it got the most requested and usually most perverted masterpiece. Not only were most of the music videos explicit in their content, they represented a negative image of women. Focusing on one video is difficult enough since most of them have ... a male at any time. In the various forms media, women are subjected to being portrayed as sexual objects. However, the perception of women in contemporary music videos have become distasteful. At a In the example of a video for Nelly's, "Hot In Herre" it shows scantly clad women dancing, throughou...

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... Knock Life" were released and he was finally well-known throughout the United States. With cameos by Rap Mogul Jermaine Dupri, Ja Rule, DMX, and producers Swizz Beats & Timbaland, Jay-Z's music was introduced to virtually every region of the country. In its first week, the album sold 300,000 copies and went on to sell many hundred thousand more. 1999 was ... Familia" which feature "I Just Wanna Love U," which was produced by The Neptunes, who now may be one of the more famous producers in all of hip-hop, rap, and even pop. He mainly continued with his non-gangster rap on this CD. The ye...

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... , and best album "Sex Packets". Then later on 1992 he got out of Digital Underground, and made is sole debut "2Pacalypse Now", this album really got Tupac noticed in the music industry. Also in that same year he starred in the movie "Juice". Then in 1993 he recorded and released "Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z", an album that got Tupac to cross over the ... pop charts. But along with these successes, Tupac began to get into trouble with the police once again, when he was accused of a violent attack on an off-duty police officer. ... ...

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