... be referred, essentially kept America away from anything " American-. Nevertheless, America would soon experience a unexpected yet brilliant occurrence in the Ghettos of Harlem, New York. African Americans migration to the north brought a large number of blacks to the city. This migration would be responsible for what ultimately caused the Negro ... the same thing, and is improvised even more so by the actual lyrics of the song. The experience of the American urban ghetto, predominately New York, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, is where the struggle and the voice of Hip Hop ultimately aro...

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• Grade Level: High School

... and fight amongst themselves to see who can come out on top. The lyrics in their songs are harsh. They speak of gang life, life in the ghetto, gunfights, drug use, and they often degrade women. Yet wherever one turns these songs and being played over and over again on the radio and the ... Rap music started in the early 1980's and it is a musical style the came from the hip-hop culture of the streets. Mainly showing up in New York, rapping was simply the rhyming of words and lines over a beat. At first it was a competition to see who had the most creative insults to another ... lyrics an...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . At the time, everybody was crew hopping. I can remember seeing Beat Street for the first time, and actually getting a glimpse of the some of New York's most famous B-boying crews on the big screen. Even though Wild Style is regarded as a more authentic Hip Hop flick, I actually saw Beat Street first. ... behind the scenes, that resulted in the evolution of the B-boy culture on both coasts. "There was a meeting when Sugar Pop came to New York in like 1980. We all hung out in my hallway. Sugar Pop was the Californian dude down with the Electric Boogaloos, the group that created poppin ......

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• Grade Level: High School

... o' guns, real easy to get Tons o' guns, bringing nothing but death Tons o' guns are in the streets nowadays, it's big money and you know crime pays. Check your nearest overpopulated ghetto, they greet you with a pistol not trying to say hello, mad kids packed 'cos the neighbourhood's like that, want some shit that's fat catch a victim do a stick. Kids pulling triggers ... their style and what they are trying to say. Gang Starr's songs do contain some bad language and talk about violence, drugs, and bad situations on the streets of New York City in this case, but these things are coming ...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School