Songs are usually 12bars, 16 bars, or 8 bars. ... It was influenced heavily by sacred sorrow songs, work songs, and spirituals. ... Songs from this era are known as Old School Hip Hop or Old School Rap. ... He would rap at the top of his lungs when performing his songs and worked the crowd passionately. ... Both songs also use slang as well. ...
Some songs are created with the mere purpose of disgracing women, which I totally find to be offensive. ... Mentioning how fun drugs supposedly are in songs is unnecessary. ... Nearly every gangster rap song mentions a robbery or illegitimate act of vandalism. ... (Tyson P.7) These songs give people ideas and put the thoughts of committing any particular act in the minds of easily influenced people. ... It's making people think that all rap is gangster rap. ...
This is most of the negative images, such as absence of males in the family; women as sex objects; males being shown as criminals; and rappers and their lyrical content, come from. ... They look at it by saying "If the African-Americans are rapping in songs about being poor and acting in movies where they are poor, they must be poor. Why else would they be making these songs and acting in movies that do not reflect themselves?" ...
Being used as a powerful voice in America, there were messages being delivered through songs that dwelled on uplifting the African American race and addressing problems that were against blacks as well. ... Then I would go to school or go outside to hang out with my friends to debate who was a better rapper and why. ... This is due to most rappers of today that forgot about the positive message that is supposed to be delivered in the songs that started hip-hop culture in the first place. ...
Black people are portrayed to listen to rap music and gospel music more often than anything else. ... According to Media, When black people listen to rap music it has to be played to the loudest volume and have the most curse words and disrespectful terms included in the song for them to like it. When describing how we listen to gospel music, the media insist that it is up to beat and something to catch the holy ghost to and that when a gospel song comes on we overly clap our ends and stomp our feet before we catch the spirit and start overly dancing all over the place. ... My culture is ste...
For example, many young women choose female rap artists like Lil" Kim and Foxy Brown as there role models. ... It is odd that a black man can make an entire album talking about sex and society approves of it, but let a black female make one song on it and she is a "ho." ...
Her debut album, Songs in A Minor, is one of the first major releases by Clive Davis' new J Records, and her first single, "Fallin'," hit #1 on BET's "106 & Park" countdown show a spot held down by male rappers for the past few months. ... A piano virtuoso, she can sing and play old-school Donny Hathaway songs as well as Biggie's "One More Chance." ...
Canada is a place full of cultural wealth. Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. One race that had a significant role in the construction, molding and forming of Canada is the Black people and they really are not ever shown any gratitude for what they have done. This country owes them for what they have done and it is sad that we do not learn about Black history, not even in our high school Canadian history courses do we lean about black people in Canada. They did so much for their country even when life was not fair to them. ...
In todays news Parks has lost a recent lawsuit againt rap group OutKast, suing because the group used her name in a popular song which involved "profanity and vulgarity". The group said that "they only wanted to hounor the civil-rights pioneer with the grammy nominated song". ...
It is obvious that significant improvements have been made in the way that the criminal justice system deals with Blacks during the history of the United States. Blacks have not always been afforded a right to trial, not to mention a fair one. Additionally, for years, Blacks were unable to serve on juries, clearly affecting the way both Blacks and whites were tried. Much of this improvement has been achieved through various court decisions, and other improvements have been made through federal and state legislatures. Despite these facts, the development of the legal system with regard to race ...
