... was something like "a black CNN". 1 It became somewhat of an underground phenomenon spreading all around the country. Tim Adkins, a columnist, describes: "Along it's journey, Hip Hop left some debris in the small, suburban towns dotting the pathways between its bigger urban destination."2 White people who mostly populated ... kids of suburbia and taught them about a whole other world that they could never conceive. Compton. With this came the movement of gangsta rap, with its hard-hitting lyrics, and truthful story telling. In the height of this period, it was evident that the white po...

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... playing the same record were needed to perform it. Once break-beat deejaying came about, people began to perform a unique, acrobatic twisting style of dance to go along with these beats. The dancing was called "break dancing". Kool Hercs next idea was to get someone to "MC" the parties he threw. The MC was ... the crowd going between songs. This is how rapping came about. DJ Hollywood was one of the first MCs and he would use rhyming verses in his rap. One of the words he used was "hip hop", which later became the name of the culture of those who attended Kool Herc's parties. But still .....

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... were concentrated in one area and living in the cities enabled easier means of obtaining transporting to other parts of the country. The move into the cities, along with the invention of the electric guitar, changed the face of blues forever and paved the way for rock and roll. (2, 3, 4, 7) After World ... fashion statement, with it's own slang and clothing which especially became popular in the 1990's. Later on came gangster rap, which was more violent and explicit and dealt with gang life. Gangster rap reached the height of its popularity in the mid-1990's but it was also very controve...

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... oppose each other. Hebdige writes, " maps of meaning in society are charged with a potentially explosive significance 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 ... their existence, that by acknowledged for either good or bad, they get noticed and what they say gets heard".) (Hebdige,Hiding in the light). Rap lyrics in the hip hop sub culture are about the problems rappers have seen, such as poverty, crime, violence, racism, ...

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... , by the editors of VIBE) Tupac outshine in his dramatic performances, he was a great poet, and he began to have a passion for rapping. His first rap was about a friend that he lost to a gun. He was an extremely talented actor, he starred in five box office movies, which were all filmed in ... himself. Don Quale, said that "his album had no place in this society". The politics were frustrated that a young black male was brave enough to rap about the reality of the black societies. Tupac said the album "was his practice to introduce a center character through whom he could develop a narr...

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... the Arts where he studied acting and ballet with many white kids and finally felt in touch with himself. This is where he wrote his first rap which was about gun control after he lost one of his good friends. Looking for a better life Afeni packed up their bags and moved the ... realized his mother, Afeni, was strongly addicted to drugs and decided his house was to dysfunctional for him to start a career. Leila took him in along with Ray Luv and let them stay in her house where she lived with her husband and children. Tupac's friendship with Leila grew and they would start ... who was th...

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... parts (the Model T), Ford was able to keep the cost down. Then, in 1914, the moving assembly line was introduced. Cars were assembled as they moved along a conveyor belt. Workers stayed in one place adding parts. This reduced the time it took to make a car from 14 hours to 93 minutes. More ... new jobs but, because there was new, quicker ways of producing the products by using the machines most people remained unemployed. these unemployed did not rap any benefits from the boom. The majority of these people were black Americans and of Hispanic origin and other immigrants. Because there we...

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... a play "A Raisin in the Sun." In that play Tupac played Travis. In June of 1986, Tupac's family moved to Baltimore from New York. That is where Tupac wrote his first rap. 3 months later Tupac attended Baltimore School for the arts. That is where he studied ballet and acting. About two years later Tupac moves west of the United States to Marin ... no place in our society." Next year on February 1, 1993 Tupac came out with another album. Once it was released it went platinum. It went platinum on April 19, 1995 along with 2Pacalypse Now but that went gold only. On July 23, 1993 Tupac makes...

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... like their jokes. We like to feel smart. Stupid Characters and situations set up comically are in this category. For example, when you see a banana peel and a idiotic person walks along, you think that that person will slip and fall and be hilarious however I am not a stupid person. (Slips on brain) Shock Humor is the currently the most popular mechanism used ... out of anger. Skill is the final mechanisms that are heavily debated, Skill is something done very well that makes us laugh like a trapeze artist defying gravity, a pun artists, even rap artists. The appeal of this mechanism is...

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... Best Actress (Renee Zelwegger), Best Supporting Actress (Catherine Zeta Jones), Best Director (Rob Marshall), and Best Picture. Queen Latifah also managed to snag a Best Supporting Actress nom along with her costar Zeta Jones. Rap stars at the Oscars? Who would have known? Although Chicago is the "big cheese" this year, "Gangs of New York" was not far behind, which received 10 nominations ... ...

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