The album Black Panther: The Album, Music From and Inspired By (2018) is from and based from the movie Black Panther a black superhero movie with good critic review. Since the album is based on the movie most of the songs talk about the movie like “Black Panther” or “Pray For Me” just to name a few. The songs are mostly for people who are black since they are mostly rap and black singers but they can be listen from people of different races. The album consists of different singers but the real man of the hour is Kendrick Lamar. He is in most of the tracks and stood out the most in the album. What really made this album great is the combination of modern day black music with the African American cultured music. I like some rap and black music but never been fully in them but this album really caught my attention. Most people will say that rap is just vulgar and very crude but this album may have change their minds when listening to these lyrics.
It’s best to talk about how and why this album came to be since it’s very hard to talk about the album without talking a bit about the movie and song writers. The album consists of two genre which is rap and hip hop. The director of the movie Ryan Coogler chose Kendrick Lamar to produce the film's curated soundtrack because his artistic theme is
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Perform by four artists Jay rock,Kendrick,Future, and James blake this song has many things to do with the movie. As the title refers to the scene where the villain kills the King and is taking over the throne. At the end of the songs it says,” All hail King Killmonger” which is the name of the villain. The song isn’t all about the movie but they are just singing what it means to be truly black. The song is very rap due to it’s random lyrics and gang affiliated words that they sing but it just what made this the best. If you haven’t seen the movie it’s still a good song but if you have the listening experience will make the song much
album contains an amazing combination of poetic lyrics and edgy music that make it an
In the book Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago, LeAlan Johns and Lloyd Newman, as two kids grow up in ghetto, document their life from 1993 to 1996 to show the rest of the America the reality of living in a poor black neighborhood. Through vast interviews, diaries and monologues, Johns and Newman provide a new perspective on the ongoing issues in the ignorant black community; they encourage the black residents to express their point of views on gang, drug, crime, and they also address their hope. Since this book is story with long time span and fragmental writing styles, it is impossible to finish the soundtrack for chapters in detail within eight songs. Therefore, if I am going to be the music composer of the movie based on this book, I would choose eight songs for the following eight themes.
When listening to rap music we get to experience the environments that the MC lived through. Most MC’s use music as a way of coping with reality, their violent and hard life. In this way they find a kind of shelter in their songs even though these songs describe their life and how hard it is.
I say this because it better informed me on issues that I have known were present in the hip hop/rap culture. One of the main points in the film was the manhood in hip-hop culture. Before I dig into this topic one thing to understand is that hip-hop was created in the slums of New York. People grew up in very tough times; poverty was the norm, violence was high, and drugs influenced people’s lives. As you watch the film you can clearly see that all of the artists portray a tough “don’t mess with me” image. When asked why Hip-Hop promotes these images artists responded almost unanimously. They said that when you grow up in tough conditions you can’t be a punk. People see anything that’s not toughness weak. Anybody who isn’t perceived as tough is looked at like a bitch. Another big topic in the film was the way hip-hop victimizes women, and African American women in particular. The culture of Hip-Hop reduces women to sex objects. They’re half naked or more in the music videos and dancing explicitly. An issue in the film was when popular rapper Nelly swiped his credit card down a woman’s butt cheeks in a music video. This lead Nelly to cancel a bone marrow donation event at Spellman College after students said they were going to protest. Another issue in the film was homophobia. When a rapper named of Busta Rhymes was asked about homophobia he didn’t even respond to the question he completely walked off set. That
Lastly Kendrick Lamar’s piece Good kid m.A.A.d City is a coming of age story from the view of teenage Kendrick living in Compton, California. This album shows the dark side of Kendrick’s life as well as his lighter moments of aspiration. There are vivid depictions of violence that he endured as a teen as well as the influence of money and power. Also in this album, he shows how easily influenced he was when he and his friends break into a home in the track ‘The Art of Peer
His analysis of the video and song seem more akin to a movie critic’s review of the next Quentin Tarantino film. He comments, “the video...is daring, provocative, traumatizing, cynical,... and to many, a work of genius.” This jarring examination seems relatively out of place for a song in the number one spot on the radio. One could attribute this simply to shock value, but Molanphy sees (or hears) something more when he acknowledges, “When you focus on [the] music, you gradually adjust to what initially makes it so jarring, particularly the lurch from the the sweet, acoustic Afrobeat intro to the droning, brooding chorus.” Incidentally, the song is much more than Gambino’s “cri de coeur” as Molanphy puts it, as it stands alone as a legitimate piece of hip-hop music. Paired with the video, the dark commentary does not seem so out of place when you recognize the history of rap music and its influences. He recognizes this best when he uses ethos to increase his
Kid cudi trying to argue about how difficult things are growing up with being Oppressed and growing up being black. Songs are one way of expressing feelings and emotion, many artist do this constantly in their music. To some it is why they make music. There are endless signs and verses that hint at many things such as problems, politics, living in racist era’s also places. I chose to focus on one main rapper and his music only.
As Kendrick entered the stage shackled to his black comrades with a soulful saxophone playing in the background, it is obvious that the imagery of imprisonment was a commentary on incarceration in America and its similarities with slavery. By amplifying this modern twist on slavery, Kendrick provokes American viewers to reflect on the struggles that black Americans still go through today. At the start of his performance he goes on to rap “I’m African-American — I’m African” as if he was correcting himself. This isn’t surprising as black identity is hard to establish in a country that implicitly detests you, but explicitly fetishizes your culture. Stuart Hall discusses this in his text when he states, “’the primitive is a modern problem, a crisis in cultural identity’…the modernist construction of primitivism, the fetishistic recognition and disavowal of the primitive difference” (Hall 125). There is no wonder why Kendrick, like many African-Americans, finds comfort in placing his identity with the mother land rather than his true country of origin. How can the black multitude stand in solidarity with a country who will continuously praise black culture but refuse to recognize the black struggle? Kendrick Lamar then conjures imagery of Africa, where he danced and rapped in front of a raging bonfire, one of the most powerful imagery included in his entire performance. One can interpret
The purpose of this study is determine why and how African American music that’s is so deeply rooted into the community is being culturally appropriated. This is a topic that has been the on the foreground of race for years. Activists and celebrities like Adrienne Keene, DeRay McKesson, Azealia Banks, and Jesse Williams helped bring the issue into the national attention. Most of the world or better yet the appropriators have very little knowledge of what the word actually means. In order to understand the problem we must first understand the word Culture and Appropriation. Culture being defined as the beliefs, ideas, traditions, speech, and material objects associated with a particular group of people. Appropriation the action of taking something
The Black Panther Party was born to elevate the political, social, and economic status of Blacks. The means the Party advocated in their attempt to advance equality were highly unconventional and radical for the time, such as social programs for under privileged communities and armed resistance as a means of self preservation. The Party made numerous contributions to Black’s situation as well as their esteem, but fell victim to the ‘system’ which finds it nearly impossible to allow Blacks entry into the dominant culture. Thus, the rise and fall of a group of Black radicals, as presented by Elaine Brown in A Taste of Power, can be seen to represent the overall plight of the American Black: a system which finds it impossible to give Blacks equality.
It is subgenre that tests the ruling cultural, political, philosophical, and economic agreement. Political hip hop often interfere with conscious hip hop and the two terms are used mutually. However, conscious hip hop is not really openly political; instead discuss social matters and conflict. Religion aversion of crime, and violence, culture, the economic, or simple depiction the struggle of ordinary people are focus of conscious hip hop. Conscious hip hop helps public to know the social problems and to make their own decision without been forced to take actions that they can make on their own. “How we gonna make the black nation rise?” by brother D. was the first social conscious hip hop song, grandmaster “the message” reflect much of political and conscious hip hop track, tells the poverty, violence and dead end lives of the community poor time. Some of the artists of conscious hip hop are Mos Def, Talib Kweli
African-American music is a vibrant art form that describes the difficult lives of African American people. This can be proven by examining slave music, which shows its listeners how the slaves felt when they were working, and gives us insight into the problems of slavery; the blues, which expresses the significant connection with American history, discusses what the American spirit looks like and teaches a great deal from the stories it tells; and hip-hop, which started on the streets and includes topics such as misogyny, sex, and black-on-black violence to reveal the reactions to the circumstances faced by modern African Americans.
Both movements use “rhythm and poetry” (Gladney 291) to address social issues affecting the black man, including racism, education and drug use. These movement can both be linked to extreme examples of frustration and rage felt be a large part of the black community, like “the Los Angeles riots of 1992 and the riots that followed the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King in 1968” (Gladney 292). However, Gladney observed that the Hip-Hop genre has developed more of a focus on commercialism and only in the underground rap world do we still see the idealist who is in touch with the pulse of the black communities. Many rappers in the mainstream lack the political, racial, and social tone of the black community. The notable exception being the groups who use shock and a sold ghetto theme to crossover to the commercial market but maintain their artistic
This may mean that blacks are still overcoming their unvoiced race and the creators incorporated this with the quietness of the character because of the racial expectations. The quietness might be an issue in it of itself. Given that Superman, Spiderman and Batman all have dominant heros where their is a clear lack of gender equality. Gender at the time was that women were portrayed as inferior and they were never equal to Superman, Spiderman or Batman. They were the love and trust of those characters. They were never the heros. In the film in Black Panther the women were on equal fitting and here is how we know why….this attitude is shown when…Very nearly did and in a way that is its own defiance. Describe the character, personality, colors they wear. Portrayed that way more than the other. These are the values that these choices communicate. The Black Panther has come to represent this movement and therefore is now associated with the Black
In this speech I wish to discuss the Sceneography of the critically acclaimed Hip-Hop artist, Kendrick Lamar's live performance at the 2016 Grammy Awards. For the general populous Hip-Hop live performance and high tire theatrical production are worlds apart but when Kendrick Lamar and associated production teams preformed at the American Music Award event, the internet and the world alike were taken by storm. The performance Brings urban hip-hop music which is considered to be the most low brow genre in popular music together with phenomenal sound, lighting, chorography. The level of articulation for the musicians, dancers and technical team works so cohesively and is absolutely a sight to be seen. Of course this territory has been also touched