Throughout time, music has been used to represent a movement, social change and culture, when music is created many have a meaning or a purpose which is not only to entertain, but is used to educate about the culture for example some classical music has no words but when people analyse the music itself it is cut in to pieces and the instruments can be seen to show meaning. In this essay the aim will be to look at rap/hip-hop music, in particular I will be looking into whether or not hip-hop is a narrative of “the street’. Music has always been related to a reflection of the way the society is feeling or being ran at the time, for example hip hop, has been noted to be a narrative of the street in America, and has also been adopted by many
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Hip-Hop is one of the genres and cultures, which are now a dominant art form in youth culture making it a hybrid culture it is also global and you can hear hip-hop in many different cultures and languages but still may have the similar concept of the street. Politically, many of the artists and rappers who took on hip-hop as a culture where poor, and the music became a form of cultural expression ”For many black youths in the United States… the world is a ghetto. Trapped in and witness to cycles of violence, destitution and lives of desperation, their aspirations and views find expression in political behaviour, social practices, economic activities and cultural outlets. These streams came together and informed a culture of resistance that has been termed Hip Hop whose most dynamic expression is in the from of rap music.”(Lusane, 1993, P41) Making note on what was happening around them. “Hip hop emerged from the experiences and practices of economically disadvantaged Afro-American, Latin, and Afro-Caribbean youths. These …show more content…
Gang culture is something that seems to be involved in the making and the appearance of the rapper, we see the occurrence of rap gangs, in the similar way of how sound systems of reggae would conflict, in hip hop. For example much controversy surrounded the murder of two of the most talented rappers off all time 2pac and Notorious B.I.G nobody up to now has been able to say what actually happened many may say that it was an act of gang conflict. Various scholars have discussed the notion of black male authenticity within rap music (Kitwana 2002; Ogbar 2007; Rose 2008). Many rappers construct a black male subjectivity that incorporates the notion that masculinity means exhibiting extreme toughness, invulnerability, violence and domination. This is shown through an expression of lyrics which could be a combination of experience which would be the narrative or the pressure to adhere to be
Hip-Hop is one of the genres and cultures, which are now a dominant art form in youth culture making it a hybrid culture it is also global and you can hear hip-hop in many different cultures and languages but still may have the similar concept of the street. Politically, many of the artists and rappers who took on hip-hop as a culture where poor, and the music became a form of cultural expression ”For many black youths in the United States… the world is a ghetto. Trapped in and witness to cycles of violence, destitution and lives of desperation, their aspirations and views find expression in political behaviour, social practices, economic activities and cultural outlets. These streams came together and informed a culture of resistance that has been termed Hip Hop whose most dynamic expression is in the from of rap music.”(Lusane, 1993, P41) Making note on what was happening around them. “Hip hop emerged from the experiences and practices of economically disadvantaged Afro-American, Latin, and Afro-Caribbean youths. These …show more content…
Gang culture is something that seems to be involved in the making and the appearance of the rapper, we see the occurrence of rap gangs, in the similar way of how sound systems of reggae would conflict, in hip hop. For example much controversy surrounded the murder of two of the most talented rappers off all time 2pac and Notorious B.I.G nobody up to now has been able to say what actually happened many may say that it was an act of gang conflict. Various scholars have discussed the notion of black male authenticity within rap music (Kitwana 2002; Ogbar 2007; Rose 2008). Many rappers construct a black male subjectivity that incorporates the notion that masculinity means exhibiting extreme toughness, invulnerability, violence and domination. This is shown through an expression of lyrics which could be a combination of experience which would be the narrative or the pressure to adhere to be