Essays on Hip Hop

What is hip hop and is it influnceing listeners to condone violence and drugs. First off to set the record straight, this is the truth nothing outside of this is trueand if you agree great if you dont agree thats your bad. But I am tired of people saying “Ilisten to hip hop”, stupid you…

No longer is Hip-Hop just a reflection of Western customs and the African American identity, it is now integrated in many countries and cultures all over; hat originally started in the asses in Bronx, New York, has now spread globally all around the world Hip Hop is no longer appreciated as just a genre of…

When you hear the phrase “Hip-Hop”, music, dancing, rapping often come to mind. Well, it’s all of that and more… Hip-Hop is a culture. According to Webster’s dictionary, culture is defined as “the concepts, habits, skills, arts, instruments, institutions, etc. of a given people in a given period; civilization. ” One artist defined Hip-Hop as…

Technology has a big impact on our youth. Nowadays you see fewer kids go outside and play or do activities out of the house. Most kids would rather be inside playing video games such as Play Station or other gaming consoles. Media is one of the important things that have potential to generate both positive…

Hip hop is more than just a type of music genre; it is a culture that people live by. Hip hop has many elements such as rap and b-boying. There are many factors that helped make hip hop a worldwide phenomenon and play a role in its foundation. I will be discussing how these factors…

After finishing this book by Derek Pardue, it would be an understatement to call his work an interesting and insightful look into the world of Brazilian hip-hop culture. With the city of Sao Paulo at the forefront of discussion, the book is based on over five years of fieldwork by Pardue and highlights topics of…

“Hip hop is now the most important musical idiom: what jazz was from the 1920’s to the 40’s, or rock ‘n’ roll was from the 50’s to the 70’s, hip hop has been from the 80’s on. ” Straus, April 2000 As the quote states, hip hop and its associate genres rap, urban, R&B is…