... Panther plot to bomb banks and department stores, Afeni Shakur gave birth to Tupac Shakur, born Lesana Parish Crooks on June 16, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York. His biological father was William Garland, who was also a Black Panther. While he was still a child, his mother changed his name to Tupac Amaru ... I grew up with" (Thug - Shakur). He grew up in the ghettos and was involved with street gangs and drug dealers. The struggles of the ghetto life and his friends would influence his lyrics to come. His mother was introduced to crack from these drug dealers and developed an addiction that...

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... Hip -hop is a word to describe a cultural movement, that includes styles of dance and music. The music originated in the South Bronx of New York in the 1970"s. The first DJ of hip-hop was a man named Kool Herc. He innovated previous turn-table techniques into new-school recording and play ... style in their territory. People would trade and copy the mix-tapes and would play the music outside on the battery powered cassette players called "Ghetto Blasters." These mix-tapes were popular mostly in the Bronx but as people began to trade, they were popular in all the neighborhoods. Then Blac...

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... really caused by rap music? Rap is about heritage, identity and the future. Rap music originated in mid-1970 in south Bronx section of New York City. Rap is a cross - culture product. Rapping is saying rhymes to the beat of music it was originally called emceeing. It draws its ... Keeley). Rapper and DJs disseminated their work by copying it on tape- dubbing equipment and playing it on powerful, portable "ghetto blasters." Breakdancers used their bodies to mimic transformers and other futuristic robots in symbolic street battles. Although graffiti as a social movement first came out in...

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I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto The sound of a single gunshot echoes from a black BMW, followed by screams, skidding tires and sirens. Music is one thing, but this is business. Never has an industry been so ... event that Jam Master Jay of Run DMC, a group notorious for bringing Hip Hop out of the shiny jumpsuit look and into a casual, streetwise one was shot dead in a New York recording studio. Yes the business will always have casualties. It's a business where there are no limousines or private jets, a business where nobody forgets where there from or who they are ... ...

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