Jay-Z rants about how many girls he's "bagged" in his hit single "Girls, girls, girls". ... When the music business caught onto this trend of rap music's popularity, they bought into it, adding to the culpability of rap artists. ... They would be offered large sums of money to rap about the hardships of the ghetto, which is what happened with the "conscious" rap sub-genre, which consisted of rappers who rapped about things that actually matter, like the Roots. ... To many rap artists, this was a life long dream, and once you live in the lap of luxury, one can't rap anymore about...

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Combs, being the owner of the widely known Bad Boy Records, was simply being judged by the ownership of such a name on a record label and the fact that much of his music and his protégés was really how they lived and behaved on a regular basis. ... Rap is nothing but life stories described in a musical form. ... The same principle goes with Rap music. ... the evil "of the most violent, dehumanizing, and desensitizing rap-(623). Rap music is not to blame for the way people act in society today. ...

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So if rap isn't violent anymore, what is it? ... Rap certainly doesn't change because it ignorantly believes that as music it knows what the fans want to hear. ... Rapping or "Emceeing" as its more accurately titled is only one of these sub cultures. ... The style has been used since and now influences almost all rap music being made. ... - Talib Kweli (The Blast) This final quote is from Talib Kweli; another extremely intelligent artist who could be summarized with a self-quote "anyone can tell you how it is, I"m telling you how it is - AND how it could be." ...

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I say this because allowing nine members to act how they feel results in each member bringing a different musical style to a group. ... In a sense each member's own rapping style has become the groups norm. For instance the Genius and the Rza are intelligent rappers while Ghost Face Killah and Raekwon are storytellers with their lyrics. The way each member raps also spills over into how they act when not doing musical activities with the group. ... This relates back to the group's norm of allowing a member to act how they want. ...

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A good belly dancer can be judge by how well she moves her shoulders and not her pelvis. ... Name of Dance: Break Dance Origin: USA Date: 1980 ...

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