... call Rap music. " Hip Hop, like Jazz and the Blues, is the music of the oppressed-,The blues is a ramification of the feeling of disenfranchised blacks after the civil war. This music helped troubled African Americans deal with their conflicts by airing the situations out. Hip hop itself ... also a spirit that can express itself in almost everything," Rap does just the same thing, and is improvised even more so by the actual lyrics of the song. The experience of the American urban ghetto, predominately New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, is where the struggle and the voice ... lik...

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