... He is however accountable to Congress (legislative branch). The Dewan Negara (Upper House) has 69 members who are appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Its job is to debate Bills passed by the Dewan Rakyat (Lower House or House of Representatives). The Dewan Negara does not have the ... his cabinet must resign his post in Congress before his appointment is considered for approval by Congress. In Malaysia, even though the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the Supreme Head of The Federation, he is compelled to accept advises from the executive branch of the government - the Cabinet, which is ... ...

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... He is however accountable to Congress (legislative branch). The Dewan Negara (Upper House) has 69 members who are appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. Its job is to debate Bills passed by the Dewan Rakyat (Lower House or House of Representatives). The Dewan Negara does not have the ... his cabinet must resign his post in Congress before his appointment is considered for approval by Congress. In Malaysia, even though the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is the Supreme Head of The Federation, he is compelled to accept advises from the executive branch of the government - the Cabinet, which is ... ...

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... " (Rose 2008:141). White rapper Vanilla Ice's illustrations of urban street life were exposed as artificial, while west coast rapper Dr. Dre became the dominant artist of gangsta rap despite his lack of involvement in gang activity. The difference between Vanilla Ice's inauthenticity and Dr. Dre's authenticity stems from the audience's assumptions that the thuggish and violent messages were ... , the media-controlled images began to be associated with authentic Blackness, and much of White America began filtering their definitions of Blackness through historically negative perceptions pre...

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... or class within a large culture, one having beliefs, interests and customs that are different to those of the greater population. Hip hop music (rap) can be viewed as just one aspect of the subcultural movement of hip hop which also includes, graffiti, breakdancing, distinctive clothes and slang. ... we are shaped by culture. When listening to hip-hop, one immediately notices that it is a form of articulating identity and self-assertion. The rap artists frequently call attention to their origins, usually grounded in a particular region like South Central, Los Angeles, the Bronx, or Comp...

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... In America, during the end of the 20th century found itself still having race related problems, long after the Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King. Rap " a recent genre in the 1980's was found to be an outlet for frustrated young African-Americans with groups such as Public Enemy and N.W.A ... The law grudgingly gives women equality, but people's attitudes towards us are still disrespectful, oppressive and belittling. " Similarly, in the world of hip-hop and rap music, artists such as rapper, Lil Kim, used her feminine charms to dominate against men as a figure not to be messed ...

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... ancestry and pervasively force-feeds America the ugly truth about racism and class disparities experienced exclusively by African-Americans. Hip-hop is an organic expression of urban hip-hop culture; rap quietly became the distinctive sound of African-American anger, rebellion, cultural style and contemporary experience (Best and Kellner). It is for this specific reason hip-hop does not ... with mainstream Americas' sensational view of itself nor its overall political agenda. That which is artistically excellent in this case also proves politically and morally troubling (Perry, 2004). W...

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... now, but his music first hit at a time when the music industry was dominated by the first wave of millennial glitz and glamour: boy bands, meaningless rap lyrics, and bling. He was the counter-culture in the early millennial generation, the answer to Britney Spears, N'sync, and the Backstreet Boys. He might ... upon its release. At a time when many rappers were stuck in the negating fashions of cliches like the hood life, Eminem pushed the limits of rap by abandoning the genre's familiar themes of sex, drugs, and money with more lyrical power and imagination than any of his contemporarie...

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... 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, and jewelry. Among all these Rap Artist 50 cents drove my attention. I was listening to his newly released single G'D UP extracted from his freshly collaborated latest album entitled "BEG FOR MERCY ... before u speak on 50, but forty in a spare slip, these...

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... abuse, psychiatric disorders, suicide risks, sex-role stereotyping, or risk taking behaviors during adolescence." [1] "Forty-seven percent (47%) of mothers with children in public schools believe that violent messages in rap and rock music contribute " a great deal" to school violence "[2]. And "sixty-six percent (66%) of 13-17 year olds believe that violence in music is partly responsible for violent crimes ... , revenge, shooting and death. Teenagers, who listen to heavy metal or rock music, are attracted because they can connect the lyrics of these songs with their own troubled feelin...

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... of the people who enjoyed that particular type of material. For example, I personally do not find an ounce of talent in rap music, it would not make a difference in my life whether or not existed. Many anti-rap groups contend that rap promotes gang violence and insults women (calling them bitches and whores). But if I was in a position where I could ban it and ... did, I would be denying a group of people their careers as rap artists or producers and denying the fans of rap music their listening enjoyment. This would not only be selfish on my part, but it would deprive many others of th...

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... groups and artists (Banks, 1997). It was not uncommon to see a Michael Jackson video followed by a video from a heavy metal band, or a video from Duran Duran followed by a video from a rap group. The sudden accessibility to these different types of music helped drive many changes in popular culture; perhaps the most significant of these were the newfound popularity of ... rap and hip-hop music (Banks, 1997). Rap music was hardly a widely popular form prior to MTV, yet rap and hip-hop culture now permeates youth culture across the country, with little differentiation among black and whit...

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... 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 ... 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 BET (...

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... to be retold, 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 it Carmen : A Hip-Hopera ... , the music must also be fit the change. Classical Opera at the time was the most popular form of musical, and Carmen became just another addition to that genre. Currently, Rap, Hip-hop and R&B music are among the most popu...

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... dressing and mimicking the actions of these idols. There have been numerous stories flooding the news about teenagers committing suicide or hate crimes due to certain song lyrics among the rap and rock genres. Many rappers do not serve as good role models for the children that listen to their music. For example, Tupac Shakur, who was sentenced to jail for ... days for the failed attempt of hitting a man with a baseball bat during a concert, or Ice Cube, who killed a man at a bowling alley, these two men are very popular among the rap community and countless children look up to them as i...

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... The Los Angeles Times on the Web, notes that the Medellin cartel began to be portrayed throughout various forms of entertainment (Pastranda). Many films and rap artist productions capitalize on the story of Pablo Escobar, but despite his horrific actions, the majority of the time he is given an alluring appeal ... to distinguish the underlying motif of the horrors of drugs and violence in these movies. Another example of his influence in entertainment is in Mafioso rap, where artists portray issues like drugs and violence firsthand, though they never experienced these issues; they use the...

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... equally, none were very modest about boasting their wealth. As for how those unfamiliar and ignorant with black culture depicted on the television through these videos? That culture being the rap culture mostly represented by black rap artists. There is certainly much room for misunderstanding and interpretation in a negative way. Morality and modest actions are far from the focus of the ... rap videos. Perhaps I am just one to avoid a conflict, but I cannot see how this would have a serious harmful affect on anyone interpreting these videos so negatively, that they could create negativ...

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... slur it would be kept out of the mainstream culture. The new usage of the word was popularized by "gansta rap," music that celebrated West Coast gang violence, during the early 1990's. It was later adopted by many young black fans of rap and hip-hop, the word had been used by black comedians, like Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy and movies ... . There is a tricky question, rather or not people other than black should use the word use "nigga" in its new usage. Fans other than black account for a large share of rap and hip-hop sales, and have long been exposed to the new usage. This is a blata...

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... with ecstasy and other drugs. All of which steer the adolescents toward a state of failure. Adolescents cognitive, social and physical levels will change as they choose this new role. For rap music their physical appearance may change to wearing name brand baggy clothing such as: Sean John, Phat Farm, Ecko Wear, the use of hand bands, bandannas, and due rags. This ... might not be true to all who listen to rap music, but these are the characteristics of the rap industry. The adolescents social role could change to using the slang of their favorite artists for instance "Go shorty,"(50 Ce...

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... the artists as black thugs that keep African Americans in the majority of bad press. This is stated in Tricia Ross' book Black Noise in which she states, The way rap and rap-related violence are discussed in the popular media is fundamentally linked to a larger social discourse on the spacial control of black people' (Ross, 1994, p125) Ross believes that although ... watch or listen to. This has caused for censorship groups such as Calvin Butts, a Harlem minister of the Abyssynian Baptist church who has tried to ban the black community of rap music, because of its harmful effects on tod...

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... clothing. In addition to producing authentic team jerseys, the company manufactures exact replicas of those worn by individual players. The founder of the most respected jersey dealer, the popularity among rap aficionados, as well as what the trend represents for regular consumers in the "streets" are all things that will let you in on the universal fashion of throwback jerseys. Founder ... these guys hunger for it." Ever since hip-hop innovators and fashion gurus Outkast appeared on MTV wearing old school Houston Astros jerseys with rainbow colors and '70s flavor, the rap world has see...

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... by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). The Parental Advisory label begins to become ignored when one out of every five rock albums and three out of every five rap albums carry the label (Stapp 3). Most music listeners would agree that many albums with the Parental Advisory label are more offensive than others may be. There are particular albums that ... old age bracket. It does not seem accurate to put the same warning label on this album that would be found on an album like Eminem's latest collaboration with his rap group D-12, Devil's Night. On this album, along with bei...

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... in the 300's hometown of Chicago. Drill music, however, has stirred up intense controversy among listeners, as its performers are a plethora of archetypal "Chief Keef's " that rap about what they know: graphic violence. While other rap has been criticized for sporting the same distasteful lyrics, drill music is different; it focuses almost solely on violence. In addition, gangs in Chicago are more ... ...

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... around bonfires with too much to drink and not enough Gatorade to fight off the hangover in the morning. My musical soundtrack would include a mysterious lack of rap music, and I will explain that now: I find rap music to be the audible equivalent of dollar store beef jerky; filthy, cheap, nauseating, but well packaged and marketed to those who don't recognize ripped-off ... ...

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... ) to capitalize on the comic banter between the new immigrant Sammo, ignorant of black and white American culture, and Tyrell, the streetwise African American police officer who introduces Sammo to rap and Reggae music. Given the loyal following of Hong Kong martial arts films by many African American viewers, the pairing of an Asian and African American performer seemed to guarantee ... get enough to eat, but his father requires him to read Charles Dickens's Great Expectations with Walt Whitman thrown in for a poetry diversion that his father promises is something like "rap."" Choosing ...

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... more than 62,000 fingerprint-package transmissions and hundreds of thousands of other transactions. After going through several quality-control checks, the information is run against an automated system, housing "rap sheets" on about 35 million offenders. If a match is found it is verified by an examiner who manually compares the prints. If no match is found in the ... rap-sheet file, the prints are run against the FBI's AFIS system, which houses 35 million 10-print digitized files. The system can examine three million fingerprints per second. A potential match ... ...

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