from a town with limited opportunities‚ Compton California‚ Kendrick Lamar tends to be a different rapper than most from that city. But the most perceptive‚ the one that best proves that the Compton rapper stands apart from forebears like NWA and Snoop Dogg who started the fascinating rhymes and rhythm of that town is a song called money trees where he states that “Everybody gone respect the shooter but the one in front of the gun lives forever" saying that where he is from everyone has a fear of being
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It was during the mid-1980s that the emergence of a new smokable form of cocaine‚ called crack‚ had been introduced to the United States. Crack‚ was highly-addictive and swept through impoverished areas of cities such as New York‚ Los Angeles‚ Oakland‚ and Miami. In the end it caused devastating effects for black and Latino Americans. As crack cocaine was becoming a grim and rising epidemic‚ hip hop was evolving alongside it. It was in the 1980s that crack cocaine and hip hop became the two leading
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Was Your Man" and the moderate hit success "Treasure". In addition to his solo music‚ Bruno has collaborated with numerous other artists‚ notably being featured on the worldwide hits "Lighters" (with Bad Meets Evil) and "Young‚ Wild & Free" (with Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa). Mars’ work has earned him numerous awards and accolades‚ including a Grammy Award‚ an American Music Award‚ a Billboard Music Award and a BRIT Award. Since the beginning of his career as a singer‚ in 2010‚ Mars has sold 10 million
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Michele Qualls Qualls 1 Steve Sosnoski ENG 102 28 August 2013 Rap music and the influence it has on society I have decided to research about rap music and what it has become in our society today. Violence has always been an issue‚ but with rap music being the most popular among teens its important what kind of messages these artist are sending. With
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My culture is defined by the stories that music has provided from slavery times to present day. Music holds significant meaning to the individual singer and is used as a way to express emotions. A singer can relay spirituality‚ love or life experiences. Since the 1400s‚ our culture sang Negro Hymns to get through miserable and painful times. Our ancestors sang about their struggles and heartaches. They sung to the Almighty for relief and deliverance from the horrible conditions they were
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will - found ways to separate themselves from their older un-hip counterparts‚ and using slang has been an easy way to do it. A lot of today’s slang comes from hip-hop culture and/or lyrics to rap and hip-hop songs. Rapper/actor/entrepreneur Snoop Doggy Dogg has been a leader in this trend‚ inspiring the youth of the nation to add -izzle (or -izzey or -izzie) to the end of words. For example: "That was off the hizzle‚ fo’ shizzle‚ my dizzle!" means "That was off the hook‚ for sure‚ my dog." (As far
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all-day and so on. By this time the crime rate was sky high. Most rappers loved the style Dr. Dre created‚ and so they tried to take that style and create something of their own. Dr. Dre he helped a rising star Snoop Doggy Dog to become a big star by guest staring on his "The Chronic" album. Snoop released "Doggy Style" and it was a hit. His style‚ similar to Dre’s‚ made it a hit. It was his best-selling album to date. Congress tried every way they could to
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Since the late 1980’s rap music has been called the Anti Christ in our culture‚ because of it’s so-called influence in people’s life. People swear up and down that the music is why people‚ specially the youth resort to violent crimes. I think by saying this they are trying to cover up the real truth by giving simple answers. Rap is defined as a style of popular music consisting of improvised rhymes performed to a rhythmic accompaniment. The first rap song was made in the late 70’s‚ the songs were
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middle class attitudes. Teen music has always been under scrutiny by those who are older. Parents‚ whether from the 60’s or 90’s‚ never welcome the sounds of the younger generation. Unfortunately this fact does not comfort someone when listening to Snoop Doggy Dog or Ice Cube talk of sex‚ violence‚ beatings‚ and suicide. Hollywood‚ the country’s Mecca for TV and movies‚ is another contaminated disaster area. This area has given us hero’s such as Clint Eastwood‚ Humphrey Bogart‚ and Bruce Willis
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Contemporary Urban Music: controversial messages in hip-hip and rap lyrics Though Franklin B. Krohn and Frances L. Suazo portray hip-hop and rap as a protest to racism‚ poverty‚ and glorifying the drug dealing and gangster lifestyle I completely disagree with their views. Hip-hop and rap is way of life for young black men and women. It’s a language for not only blacks but white people that truly understand the content of the lyrics. Krohn and Suazo wrote‚ “More recently‚ the term hip-hop
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