... life is tough (1991). Rap music certainly falls into the category of popular culture but has quite a bit of significance. In fact, rap music or hip-hop, is a genre that originated in the seventies in New York City (Columbia, 1993). The term rap emanated from sixties lingo, the word "rap" meaning ... MTV. Understanding the roots of rap music will help in understanding its significance. Part of the reason for delving into the history is because hip-hop and rap is generally associated with African Americans but the roots of the genre did not originate in the black community. Also, rap spra...

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... the current crop of MTV-pushed artists. Imagine straight-edge bands dominating the Billboard charts! Woah! It boggles the mind. But hey, weirder things have happened. Mr. T had a hit record. 6) Hip-Hop reverts to its previous state of awareness and excellence. Now, this is a totally opinionated judgement call, so feel free to disagree - but when P. Diddy "invented the remix" he basically killed ... everything positive about hip-hop in the early 90s. Public Enemy, Arrested Development, De la Soul, Leaders of the New School... you name it, these bands either self-destructed or became pass...

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... of their group. But some words that would be labeled as Ebonics have a huge impact on popular culture. This is because lots of those words are used in rap and hip-hop music which a lot of people listen to. So they start to use what they hear in the music, this is called convergence. Many words have been introduced to me that ... ...

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