... . It is the culture from which rap emerged. It is a lifestyle with its own language, style of dress, music, and mindset that is continually evolving. According to the American Heritage Dictionary (2000), Hip-Hop is a popular urban youth culture, closely associated with rap music and with the style and fashions of African-American inner-city youths. Anyone who has not seen ... forms of Hip-Hop and still get a recording contract even though it wasn't industry acceptable. It was the community that decided if an artist had what it took to be a ghetto superstar (popular in the neighborhood). ...

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... a hero, and in every movie he was in, he had a gun on his hip and shot people (Clark, 5).Rap music does occasionally tell what is really happening in the black ghetto cities, and it informs its listeners about things to watch out for in the streets. Juan Williams says "where women are treated like sex slaves and ideas like "materialism and ... woman in control of her life, going after what she wants and saying what's on her mind" (qtd. in Berry 618). Their definition differs from that of the American Heritage Dictionary, which defines a bitch as being a female dog, or offensively, a spi...

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... 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, the interests of the dominat groups in society" (Hebdige 1979: 6) No longer wanting to abide by the rules society instructs us to live by these groups decide to form ... with a word, like any other sentence, and becomes a manuscript allowing me to amplify the stresses of the world, which we live in, and what we have to face in the ghetto. Often, subculture merges with the mainstream...

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