Rap/Hip-Hop
Hip-Hop music, or to use the more popular marketing term, Rap music, was the most popular, influential, and controversial form of black and Latino urban popular music throughout the 1980s ...
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Hip Hop Culture: Popular Trends for Teenagers during the 21st Century
Hip hop music consist of a DJ mixing rhythmic passages of albums on a turntable while a rapper raps over the beats. Hip hop i...
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It’s a sunny, breezy, spring day in New York City on the Upper West Side. Sonyetta Hilton, 17, a Brooklyn resident, dressed in a black Lacrosse shirt (collar popped), Antik jeans, and Prada s...
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Written and illustrated by Ahmed Hoke, @Large spawned from a fusion for his love for hip hop and manga, as well as from his life while growing up in Southern California during the 80s. Essentially,...
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What King purposely didn’t tell you, and Beyond The Down Low author Keith Boykin aptly points out in his New York Times bestseller, is that King’s findings are unfounded and are strictl...
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B-Boys and B-Girls would come out and start uprocking once the funk or soul 45 reached the break. Later DJs like Grandmaster Flash and DJ Breakout would add MCs to their Djing routine, setting the ...
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The conference, held in Newark, NJ on June 16 through June 19, 2004, was a mixture of seminars and concerts where discussions loomed about the political prowess of the hip hop generation. The pro-...
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Some, like M-1 of dead prez in an interview with VIBE Online, even went as far as to compare the hip hop task force to the FBI surveillance of civil rights and black power groups like the Black Pan...
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Think about it, when the Roc Steady Crew was in their prime, the members ranged from ages 12 - 19. Kool Herc was in his late teens and early twenties when his DJing style invented what we call hip...
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Two rappers, sitting side-by-side in a House hearing room, went in different directions Tuesday on the need for hip-hop artists to expunge their work of sexist and violent language.One, Master P, a...
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Snoop Dogg is usually quick to brag and boast, but even he felt humbled as he was honored for his rap achievements at VH1's fourth annual Hip Hop Honors.The gangsta rapper was lauded along with Mis...
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Reggae, first produced on the island of Jamaica, is an African-Caribbean styled music inherently linked to Rastafarianism. Not universally accepted among the island's inhabitants due to its loose ...
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Rap/Hip-Hop
Hip Hop and Today's Culture
Hip Hop Education 101
