Hip hop and rap were birthed in the 90's by groups and people like the Wu Tang Clan, Biggie smalls, Tupac, and snoop dogg. Along with Female rappers like Queen Latifa and SaIt-N-Pepa. ... Aretha Franklin wrote the song respect to express her wanting respect not just for blacks and herself but the world in general. ... " And while something like this may sound absurd to someone it's really true because when songs like ridin dirty came out rapper were truly able to express what was really going on. ... For example the Velvet Underground's most popular song is "heroin....

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Within the rap arena no subject goes untouched. ... Rap lyrics frequently reference breaking out, getting out (Perry, 2004). ... Often Rappers take on the role of an icon or revolutionary historical figure in the black community (Kobin and Tyson, 2006). ... A deeper examination of rap lyrics alludes to this positive racial socialization Dr. ... Rap music should be considered as a necessary tool to reach this particular subculture in America. ...

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Did the song define you? ... It was just a silly song with a catchy melody. ... Specifically, McLune points out that "His argument completely ignores the fact that women, too, are raised in this environment of poverty and violence, but have yet to produce the same negative and hateful representation of black men that male rappers are capable of making against women" (McLune 1). ... This lack of credibility makes it appear as if McLune simply picks a song by Jay-Z that degrades women and slaps the lyrics in the article to use to prove her point. ... In Powell's article he refer...

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Black people are portrayed to listen to rap music and gospel music more often than anything else. ... According to Media, When black people listen to rap music it has to be played to the loudest volume and have the most curse words and disrespectful terms included in the song for them to like it. When describing how we listen to gospel music, the media insist that it is up to beat and something to catch the holy ghost to and that when a gospel song comes on we overly clap our ends and stomp our feet before we catch the spirit and start overly dancing all over the place. ... My culture is ste...

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Eminem, a highly respected white rapper, grew up in poverty in a black community. ... However, his successes were not only based off his skills as a rapper, but credit his success to his race and to his record label's intended audience: the white consumer. ... This turns rappers and those who are true to the original culture of Hip-hop from prophets to profits. ... For example, in the documentary "Blacking Up: Hip Hop's remix of race and identity", rapper Vanilla Ice reveals that everything about his career was staged in order to become marketable towards the mainstream a...

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Another picture was one of the music sensation Miley Cyrus, and was meme of her dancing in one of her music videos, with a part of the song being captioned under it. ... The phrase "you mad" originated from this video clip; rapper Cam'ron accused Bill O'Reilly of being mad when he began interrupting then Rocafella CEO Damon Dash. ...

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