... 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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... 14, 2000 in hot and humid Oakland California the night that 12,00 people, mostly teenagers, descended upon the Oakland Coliseum to see a rap star by the name of Juvenile, along with the Cash Money Millionaires. Anxious kids waited outside in the 100% humidity, and their patience began ... heat, humidity, and anger got to everyone, and a fight broke out between two guys. Shortly there after, everyone else followed suit, with the angry, explicit rap music still booming in their ears. Police flocked to the scene, and halted the riot, but only after it did enough damage to the concert hall, ...

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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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... the pop music sections in virtually every store I visited. Many questions flooded my mind as I noted these differences. When considering music, kids decide on which type of music such as rap, rock, alternative, and etc. they will buy. Generally, their choices are influenced by popularity, style, and their claim, "how it makes me feel." But what happens to their brains when ... ...

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... sounds that are both pleasing and painful to the ear, from the importance of classical from composers such as Bach and Mozart, to the wild deception of societies problems of rap from such artists as Ice Cube and Snoop Dog. One such style that draws from many aspect of our society is Jazz, and can be thought of as the father ... ...

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... to censoring. Another reason censorship should not be practiced is because every person has different morals and past experiences, and these characteristics come in play when interpreting lyrics. "While some rap songs might be considered offensive by one group of people, they are reflections of reality to another (qtd. in D"Angelo 2). An example of this would be the music of Eminem ... ...

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