West Coast Hip Hop is a hip hop subgenre including all music and artists coming from the West Coast areas in the North America, particularly California. The sub category started commanding the scenes from the business stance and the radio play in the mid 1990s with the development of Suge Knight and Death Row Records and the introduction of G-funk (Bryant, 2008). The West Coast sound unquestionably varies from East Coast hip hop sound. Authoritatively, the West Coast hip hop scene began in 1978
The beauty of hip hop is that it is malleable. It is not defined by strict boundaries but by multiple characteristics. Young artist J. Cole (2013) explains this best by stating in an interview, “I think there’s no rules [in rap]. You can say what you want. That’s your poetic license: to test people’s boundaries.” (p.1) The results of such malleability and the need to experiment within the unwritten boundaries of hip hop are the birth of different styles and sectors/scenes in America. These sectors
Hip-hop started out in the Bronx in New York City with DJ Clive “Cool Herc” Campbell. A man of Jamaica, he essentially birthed the new genre of music by carrying over the Jamaican tradition of Toasting, which “is boastful poetry or over a melody provided by a deejay.” (ROOTS ‘n’ RAP, rice.edu) Its creation can be accredited to the record spinning DJ’s of the clubs of the 1970s. From this, the Master of Ceremonies (MC) was created. He would come up with creative rhymed phrases that could be delivered
Smalls) becoming the king of East coast rap music when he released his first album “Ready to Die”. The lyrics “It was all a dream!” are from the albums number one hit single called “Juicy” in which Biggie depicted life growing up in the rough streets of Brooklyn, New York. Biggie smalls rose to fame as a rapper in the 90’s causing an increase in rap popularity, division (rivalry) between East and West coast rap music, and the style of gangsta rap on the East coast. Biggie Smalls caused an increase
In less than forty years, the city of Compton went from a shielded suburb near the confines of Los Angeles, to a terrorizing image of American culture. The results of this transformation and creation of “gangsta rap” is still well renowned today. Through de jure segregation, Reagan economics, undermining of black prosperity, N.W.A., and “Boyz n the Hood”, the city of Compton told its story and became a global image. This paper will analyze the shift of culture in Compton and the transcendent cultural
(PMRC) still thinks that there should be more of a regulation on the music than what there is now. "The 'gangsta rap' is just to vulgar for young teens to be listening to. It brainwashes them and sometimes even persuade them to do unlawful things" (Hip-Hop Lyrics). On the other hand the music industry has the "Parental Advisory Program." Therefore if the CD's with the explicit lyrics were restricted in any way it would bring unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment right of artists to
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Dr. Dre and his influence has had a mark on everything in hip-hop culture from influencing other artists to production of hip-hop records to becoming one of the first rapper-producers with the release of his album in 1992, The Chronic. Dr. Dre has had a major hand in west coast rap as well as in the genre of rap in general. Within this essay, the terms hip-hop and rap will be used interchangeably. The 1990s was a major decade for rap music and the culture of rap music. The development of the two
Will Thurman 5/5/14 English Hip Hop Through The Ages Hip Hop has now locked in its place in music culture, but compared to many other genres of music, hip hop is still just a child, a genre that is still trying to find its true identity. Hip hop began in the South Bronx in the early 1970s. The creation of the term hip hop came from Keith Cowboy, who was a rapper with the Furious Five and others. The roots of hip hop came from mainly African music, which has been noticed to sound very similar to
Jack Kane Mr. Appleton English 12 1 April 2014 The Evolution of Hip-Hop Hip-hop has come a long way. It has been spawned household names like Eminem, Jay-Z, and Dr. Dre, and has become a world wide movement. For me it was always there. Born in 1996, during the peak of the East Coast West Coast rap feud, I grew up with hip-hop. As I started to grow up a little and developed an interest in music, I became more aware of hip-hop music. I had heard about it from older cousins, television, and the
Hip hop started in the sixties and seventies and the way in which hip hop came about, was to tell a message from the people of the streets and the struggles they had to endure. Although there were and still are hip hop songs that people would dance and express their body freely to, hip hop was initially supposed to be a therapeutic way for inner city young people, primarily black people to express themselves and convey their story of struggle in a lyrical fun way. Hip-hop’s roots in the 1970s can
You see hip-hop dancing everywhere, from television and YouTube to social parties and gatherings. This form of dance is commonly recognized in our modern American society, but where did it all start? Hip-hop dancing started in the 1970s in New York City, where the first professional street-based dance crews formed. Around the time, young dancers would hit the parties and mimic the moves that were seen by dance crews and on the streets. Clive Campbell, better known as DJ Kool Herc, played an instrumental
Have you ever wondered about the early life of Hip-Hop artist Tupac (Tupac Amaru Shakur)? He was born June 16, 1971, in East Harlem, New York. He was raised by Afeni Shakur and Billy Garland. He also has 6 siblings, and he grew up there until 1984. He then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, where he attended the Baltimore School for the Arts, which played a big role in his music career. In 1988, he moved to Marin City, California, and attended Tamalpais High School. After dropping out, he started selling
Hip-Hop/Rap is one of the biggest growing genres of today. From its early stages in the 1970’s to today’s pop culture, it has grown quite a lot. Unfortunately, it has developed a terrible reputation of drugs, violence, abuse, and gangs. When people associate Hip-Hop with things it is usually a negative image that comes to the person’s mind. Which is sad, Hip-Hop/Rap has a great artistic quality to them that gets so easily overlooked. There is true poetry and emotion behind these lyrics and beats
the biggest movement of the 21st century, Hip-Hop culture has risen to a zenith throughout the world. Due to the initiation of “Gangster Rap”, however, Hip-Hop culture has seen a shadow of disdain and is often wrongly blamed for a multitude of crimes. Through observation, it is evident that Hip-Hop culture does not promote violence, but freedom. Necessary as a precursor, in order to understand the desires of Hip-Hop one must know the origins of Rap. Hip-Hop/Rap began with a splash in
Hip-Hop/Rap is one of the biggest growing genres of today. From its early stages in the 1970’s to today’s pop culture, it has grown quite a lot. Unfortunately, it has developed a terrible reputation of drugs, violence, abuse, and gangs. When people associate Hip-Hop with things it is usually a negative image that comes to the person’s mind. Which is sad, Hip-Hop/Rap has a great artistic quality to them that gets so easily overlooked. There is true poetry and emotion behind these lyrics and beats
Hip-Hop Music: A Critical Study Hip-hop music is a popular type of music admired highly across the globe for its famous style, art and mode of expression. This highly admired music genre can include love, broken families, racism, hard times, sexism and adversity as its main theme. It has the power of evoking a different kind of mirth and sentiment in you. When it is sung at its full peach with a DJ, the listeners become ecstatic. If you are music lover or fond of pop song, you are sure to reach a
announced that Hip-Hop had become the most popular music genre in the United States for the first time in its history. A history that, although diverse, is shorter than most people would think. The origins of Hip-Hop can be traced back to a singular date and place; August 11th, 1973, at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, New York, where DJ Kool Herc was hosting a party. He began MCing, or rapping, over a break, now known as a beat, and laid the foundations for the music genre known as Hip-Hop. During the Golden
Rhymes, “hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It’s a platform where we could offer information, but it’s also an escape” Hip-hop is a culture that emerged from the Bronx, New York, during the early 1970s. Hip-Hop was a result of African American and Latino youth redirecting their hardships brought by marginalization from society to creativity in the forms of MCing, DJing, aerosol art, and breakdancing. Hip-hop serves
What is a huge dance style in the world today that was created only forty years ago? That's right, hip hop. Although it has had a short time span, hip hop has impacted the world in numerous ways. How did it all start? it started from two highly different areas the first in a poor neighbor hood in New York City and all they could do in their free time was to throw Block parties and dance. while this was occurring the other half of the greatest dance style was forming on the other side of the country