Essays on Hip Hop

Hip Hop culture is like the “rose that grew from concrete” that Tupac Shakur speaks about in his poem (Shakur, 2014). The music element of hip hop captures the essence of a rose almost perfectly as its sometimes explicit, offensive lyrics are like cutting thorns to listeners. Yet, the overall significance of hip hop culture…

This chapter examines the cultural origins of hip-hop and the shift in the belief of who created it. This chapter gives many sources on both side of the debate throughout. It debates the perceived origin of hip-hop from African American, South Bronx origin in the 1980s to a multicultural, multiracial, multilingual, and global creation of…

Hip Hop culture is a genre and movement that originated in the South Bronx area of New York City around the late 1970s. Some of the early pioneers of this culture were Run DMC, Slick Rick, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, NWA, and Tupac Shakur. After a period of time, hip-hop music became more popular and…

Abstract Hip hop has obtained widespread popularity through its complexed culture and meticulous style of expression. It has always been the voice of the Black inner-city youth. The traditions and culture of hip hop manifested to new areas across the world, one area in particular is the West African county of Senegal. The rise of…

According to O’Brien (2016), hip-hop is a type of musical genre that has been around since the late 1970s and early 1980s. He stated further that since the inception, the genre has got a bad rap for it only being about sex, drugs, violence, and misogynistic themes since those songs only get radio play and…

Growing up in a culture where hip-hop is present, this specific genre has always been my personal gateway to tune out and listen to beats that are aesthetically pleasing. I remember always bopping my head along to the beats in hip-hop music, sometimes I would sing lyrics out-loud, however, did I know what they meant…

Hip-hop has had some huge impacts on society and culture, some good and some bad and I believe that hip-hop won’t die out like punk but instead will continue to prosper. Hip Hop music has been used to support social issues. I don’t believe anyone would have imagined in the 1960’s when Hip Hop was…

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Sex, money, violence and drugs are only few of the words that are used when the genre of “Hip-Hop” is being described. Hip hop plays both a negative and positive role in our society. hip hop may also be the main perpetrator and play a significant role in the social conflict which is, “the teenage…

The issue the thesis brought forth concerns the use of words (better lexemes) by some Nigerian female hip-hop artistes to self-objectify female sexuality in their song lyrics. Self-objectification occurs when individuals treat themselves as objects to be viewed and evaluated based upon appearance. Self-objectification might be a consequence of a set of values that implicitly…