... neighborhoods vanished overnight. In addition to this, businesses and factories relocated, and poor black and Hispanic families replaced the exiting middle classes and businesses. Along with these poor families came crime, drug addiction and unemployment. The second major event took place in 1968 once again under the direction of ... activity that would overwhelm the Bronx for the next six years. Those teenagers called themselves the Savage Seven who included the future old school rap star Afrika Bambaataa; this group was one of the earliest and most important graffiti crews, and as they...

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... from everywhere in the 1980's, the most famous of which being 2 Live Crew, Public Enemy and Ice T. In the earlier years of rap music's development, rap was mainly listened to and produced by young African-Americans; yet in the mid 1990's more people of all races and socio-economic backgrounds began ... " indo, sippin" on gin and juice- As this song promotes the use of illegal drugs and alcohol so does the majority of lyrics to rap songs which contain explicit references to drugs, sex and violence. Many contain lyrics that degrade women and commentaries on the "hardships of ghetto life." ...

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... this genres were created by African-American musicians as a means to show their struggles, revolt, and acceptance in the U.S; surprising because of the stereotype that rap is a "black" genre. Speaking of which, both genres were created in the United States. Chuck Berry, said to be the pioneer of ... their societies. Both genres started a new revolution in their time frames, representing a youth of expressionism in oneself and an acceptance of oneself. Considered rap artists, Kanye West and The Beastie Boys changed the way both genres are seen because of the constant drum like beats they h...

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... the days of Run-DMC and N.W.A. Yet these groups help start the crazy popularity of rap music. It was the first time a type of music incorporated a type of style or attitude to go along with it. Run-DMC helped make Adidas the hot item to wear, by always wearing ... them and writing songs about them. (My Adidas) N.W.A. had an f*ck the police attitude and made gangsta music very popular. Since I wasn't really old enough, I can't attest to why they were insanely popular. Now you have the wannabe gangsters rappers and emcees that only rap ... is just for a cameo. Marketing directors and adve...

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... , there definitely wouldn't be as many fans of hip hop that there are now. Hip hop music consists of East coast rap, West coast rap, hardcore rap, gangsta" rap, dirty south rap, country grammar rap, underground rap, and various others. All of these styles have its own fans that may not like other styles of hip hop. These ... are attracting listeners from all over the world, hitting them from every angle. The first style of hip hop I want to focus on is East Coast rap. East Coast rap is a style that is of coarse from the East Coast, but mainly from the New York, New Jersey, Philly area. T...

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... was something like "a black CNN". 1 It became somewhat of an underground phenomenon spreading all around the country. Tim Adkins, a columnist, describes: "Along it's journey, Hip Hop left some debris in the small, suburban towns dotting the pathways between its bigger urban destination."2 White people who mostly populated ... kids of suburbia and taught them about a whole other world that they could never conceive. Compton. With this came the movement of gangsta rap, with its hard-hitting lyrics, and truthful story telling. In the height of this period, it was evident that the white po...

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... playing the same record were needed to perform it. Once break-beat deejaying came about, people began to perform a unique, acrobatic twisting style of dance to go along with these beats. The dancing was called "break dancing". Kool Hercs next idea was to get someone to "MC" the parties he threw. The MC was ... the crowd going between songs. This is how rapping came about. DJ Hollywood was one of the first MCs and he would use rhyming verses in his rap. One of the words he used was "hip hop", which later became the name of the culture of those who attended Kool Herc's parties. But still .....

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... companies that generate violent music be held legally liable for the effects of the music they produce? Over the years music has become more violent, mostly in rap, and rock and roll. Many of the outside critics believe that the violence in music has a lot to do with the increase in violence in society. ... ". But it is not Ice T's fault for these crimes, but the fault of the person committing these crimes against the police. The media along with the critics of the rap industry would say that while the person that tried to kill the officer is guilty, they were lead to do this because of ...

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... the man wanted by police for questioning" (Creekmur, BET). However, exact details remain unclear. Some believe that the murder was apart of a bitter rap rivalry, and others believe it was a drug deal gone wrong. However, friends and family close to Jay are certainly outraged by any mention of the ... previous, and they remain optimistic about finding his killer. Jam Master Jay, along with Joe "Run" Simmons and Darryl "DMC" McDaniels, was apart of the rap group Run DMC for nearly twenty years. This disc jockey made music that the world adored. "His ... murders stemmed from the media's i...

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... oppose each other. Hebdige writes, " maps of meaning in society are charged with a potentially explosive significance because they are traced and retraced along the lines laid down by the dominant discourses about reality, the dominant ideologies thus they tend to represent, in however obscure and contra dictionary fashion ... their existence, that by acknowledged for either good or bad, they get noticed and what they say gets heard".) (Hebdige,Hiding in the light). Rap lyrics in the hip hop sub culture are about the problems rappers have seen, such as poverty, crime, violence, racism, ...

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... drum machines and turntables. In 1979, rap had its first hit single with the Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight." Since then, rappers haven"t left the charts. Along with rap come many sub-types of rap. Hardcore, underground, east-coast, jazz, and old-school rap are just a few types that have been ... created since the 70's. Throughout the 80's, the whole nation became familiar with rap. There was no street or nightclub that wasn"t familiar with rap and its ... , with rappers like L'il Kim and Foxy Brown bragging about living large with expensive cars, designer clothes, diamond jewelry, ...

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... 2000 in hot and humid Oakland California the night that 12,00 people, mostly teenagers, descended upon the Oakland Coliseum to see a rap star by the name of Juvenile, along with the Cash Money Millionaires. Anxious kids waited outside in the 100% humidity, and their patience began growing thin. The deed ... humidity, and anger got to everyone, and a fight broke out between two guys. Shortly there after, everyone else followed suit, with the angry, explicit rap music still booming in their ears. Police flocked to the scene, and halted the riot, but only after it did enough damage to the c...

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... an accessory, to make 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 ... around men, while wearing bikinis or sexy clothing that allows the camera to focus on women's body parts. (i.e. Butt, Breast etc.) Now that rap music is mainstream, music video producers target demographic are teenagers to young adults. These are the viewers who watch television programs such as B...

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... ? 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 the MCs (master of ceremonies) and DJ, but when you are referring to Hip-Hop you are ... of "rubbing" a record to enhance a DJ's segue into a new track (mixing), but Theodore gave the backward sound a percussive, rhythmic personality. In the late '70s, he was a DJ with the L Brothers (along with his brother Mean Gene who played with Grand Master Flash). "H...

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... many changes had to be made so that it could be adopted into modern culture, such as the most noticeable change of involving rap music as supposed to the original classical form. Since rap is already a commercial sensation, MTV capitalized on its popularity by converting the entire Carmen story into the hip-hop genre, dubbing ... be natural entertainers, which could be translated into having the same characteristics, as well as being just as seductive and sexual as the gypsies were. Along with the society that the story has been transposed to, the music must also be fit the change. Clas...

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... going and sometimes inspire them to do wrong. Whatever you name, hip-hop is there representing it. However, hip-hops most deadly form is its rap music. A lot of it is taken in by suburban whites and urban blacks too. Rap is stories that are told for people to hear about, and are experiences that happened in life by a rapper. The music ... , along with the rap videos that have a disturbing mix of rap, hip-hop dance moves, fashion and lyrics, leave people wondering: is hip-hop culture harming our youth? To me, hip-hop is an open statement; it can be taken in ... ...

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... a generation of kids who were able to finally find a way to express their angst, through this music. Hip hop and rap were birthed in the 90's by groups and people like the Wu Tang Clan, Biggie smalls, Tupac, and snoop dogg. Along with Female rappers like Queen Latifa and SaIt-N-Pepa. This was one of the first genres since the sixties to ... ...

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