Certain songs or music genres are associated with various events in history. ... Songs would be sung secretly in codes, blind to field overseers but apparent to other slaves. ... Rap is not afraid to speak of what is really going on. ... Rap is also used as an identity source. Young people look to rap songs to find out what is hip and cool, and more importantly, what their friends think is hip and cool. ...
These groups argue that the lyrics in many rap songs degrade women by calling them bitches, hoes, and tricks. ... Further proof that rap artists are selling an image and not real life is that many rap artists are happily married men with wives and children that they truly care about. ... Songs such as Bitchez [sic] ain't Shit and Bridget in which women are referred to as hoes do not really represent how Dr. Dre and many other rap artists feel about women. ... Rap music has no real influence on the image America has of women. ...
This way of having fun is also seen in the song GTO. ... In another instance, the song Fuck my car by Too Short, a west coast rapper, uses the automobile as a way to explain how all women want him. ... "Wanna be a -- baller, shot caller Twenty inch blades -- on the Impala A caller gettin laid tonight- Now the issue that really confuses me is the fact that the only songs I could find about cars in modern music is within the rap genre. ... It seems as if the rap culture has turned the car from a fast, high horse-power, good looking machine into a slow cruiser that has one purpose. That i...
Rap artist Ice Cube says, "They"re pioneers. Run-DMC made rap emerge out of hip-hop to be the signature art." ... This is displayed when Andre 3000, member of the Grammy award winning group Outkast, raps on the song "Elevators." ... The judgment of his own soul changes in each of his songs. ... (In his song "Vica Versa" everything he says is suppose to mean the opposite.) ...
Bobby Braddock had come up with a very interesting idea for a country rap song and pitched it to some producers. ... The song itself takes a country rap approach that is so different from all of other country music, but the lyrics are conveyed so well behind the speed and tempo of hip-hop music. ... In my opinion it was a very smart move to incorporate such an influential culture into this song that could have been just another average country song. The song stayed number one consecutively for weeks. ... I think that this song and video is good examples of innovative appropriation because of ...
Parents and experts argue that rappers and musicians use vulgar, profane, sexually explicit lyrics to target the teenage audience. ... In 1940 NBC banned 147 songs. ... In an attempt to let radio stations know what types of songs were unacceptable sent a list of 22 drug related songs to radio stations. ... Ultimately these songs were banned from radio broadcast. ... Luther Campbell, of the rap group 2 Live Crew released a single titled "Banned in the USA" in response to the labeling. ...
In 2000, the controversial lyrics of a white rapper named Eminem's second album, " The Marshall Mathers LP" became very publicized. Among other things, he rapped about his drug addict mother, hating women, killing his girlfriend, being homophobic, and influencing children. ... He also claims that he would never actually do the things that he raps about, but that his lyrics are simply therapeutic to him. Eminem claims that the main reason the public does not like what he has to say is because he is white, which means suburban white kids who enjoy rap will automatically feel like they can ...
Pop combines rap beats with delicate harmonic rhythms to produce a totally different sound yet maintaining pop as the biggest influence on the songs. ... Rap began in late 1980s and still lives on. ... Rap suffers from the same problem rock and roll did. ... Very few white rappers have been able to overcome the barriers of rap and had success in it. ... The biggest problem with rap is its glorification of violence. ...
Immortal Technique, an underground rapper, who uses hardcore lyrics with hard-hitting bass. ... Bands are put there to make money rather than music, and advertise of products in their songs. However, this is something that does not reverberate throughout the underground world of music, where different artists bring different tastes to the rap genre. ... Immortal Technique's hoodlum mentality is stronger, than any other underground rapper, literally speaking... ... He makes a clear gap between himself, and today's traditional rapper thanks to his lyrics, that are bullets that fueli...
No matter what your genre from country to rap, from rock to gospel, the internet is the place to get it. ... In a study of consumers twelve to forty-four, people that had downloaded more than 100 songs said that their CD purchases declind by 61 %. ... Her song would be played in Foot Locker across the United States. ... Every song off the album Play by Moby, was included in commercial nationwide. The majority of Worldwide President, David Renzer, company revenues has come from synch-licensing his songs for commercials. ...
Rock and roll was the most popular style of music at the time and there were some songs that weren't really dealing with the cold war in general, but there were some songs in which the topic of the song dealt with a situation in the cold war. It's typical audience was teenagers and young adults, similar to the listeners of rap and hip-hop in today's society. ... Elvis, though not directly in his songs, was influenced by the Cold War. ...
People who disagree with a message in a song either reject it and never let it touch their CD player again or create a twisted definition of the song that fits their beliefs, which no one can dispute. ... All children attributed the theme of the song to pride in the USA, the singer's birthplace. ... The professors asked a group of high school students to identify the lyrical themes of their favorite songs. Of the 662 songs the students listed, the students said that only 46 of them were about sex, violence, or Satanism. ... The correlation between rap and gang activity or heavy metal a...
Status of Women in the United States The status of women is very different throughout the world. Different countries and the cultures within them have different beliefs on what a woman's status should be. Although the status of a woman varies, one fact almost always remains constant; a woman's ...
In February, the Beastie Boys' Licensed to Ill became the first rap album to top the pop albums chart. (Rap recordings feature a kind of rhythmic talking to music.) ... The number-one hit songs of 1987 included Gregory Abbott's "Shake You Down," Huey Lewis and the News' "Jacob's Ladder," Starship's "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now," U2's "With or Without You," and Heart's "Alone." ... Other releases of oldies included reissues of Turtles albums, four repackagings of Elvis Presley songs to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Presley's death, and a fou...
"Gangsta" rap is all about live a life of violence and indecency, and this is what the children of our society are looking up too. Music with lyrics, as harsh as these need to be censored, because with the lessons these songs are teaching, the future of our country will be in the hands of "gangsta's." ... He, like many other political figures, opposes the lyrics in many of today's songs, but unlike others, he is standing up and fighting for what he sees as right. ...
Across the United States of America, there are many opinions about the government. One opinion that seems absurd to one person can be brilliant to another person. Opinions vary from person to person. Some people may not express their opinions to the public while others do not care what others thi...
