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Rap and Hip Hop

Rap and Hip Hop. “I’m fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ‘cause it’s important.” – John F. Kerry.

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Rap and Hip Hop

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  1. Rap and Hip Hop

  2. “I’m fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there’s a lot of poetry in it. There’s a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you’d better listen to it pretty carefully, ‘cause it’s important.” • – John F. Kerry

  3. Hip Hop: cultural movement which is focused mainly on the rap style of music • Style includes DJ’ing, break dancing, graffiti art, and rapping

  4. What are the elements of hip hop? • Deejaying • Emceeing • Break dancing • Graffiti • Beat boxing

  5. Hip hop music was influenced by disco, and was also a fight against disco • Early hip hop wanted to show a separation between the two styles

  6. The first big rap single was “Rapper’s Delight” by Sugarhill Gang in 1979 • Great commercial success • Technically a hip hop song

  7. 1981- new wave white band, Blondie- made “Rapture” • 1982- Afrika Bambaataa- released “Planet Rock”

  8. 1982- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five- “The Message” • Conscious rap- mature art form

  9. 1983-1984 early records of Run-DMC and LL Cool J • New school of hip hop • Drum machine-led minimalism • Influences from rock music • Socio-political commentary

  10. Delivered in an aggressive, self-assertive style • Made shorter songs than old school hip hop/rap • By 1986 they were a part of the mainstream

  11. 1986- “Fight For Your Right” by Beastie Boys • Licensed to Ill, huge commercial success • First rap album to hit #1 on Billboard charts

  12. “Walk This Way” by Run-DMC • Run-DMC soon became the first rap band to be featured regularly on MTV

  13. Salt-n-Pepa: first female rap group to hit it big • “The Show Stoppa”

  14. "In my death, people will understand what I was talking about." • – Tupac Shakur

  15. TupacShakur- rap and philosophy were inspired from the social atrocities faced by blacks. • Rapped about police brutality, poverty, racism, and social abuse

  16. “I’m 23 years old. I might just be my mother’s child, but in all reality, I’m everybody’s child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.” • Tupac Shakur

  17. Rolling Stone Magazine has declared Tupac as the 6th immortal artist of all time- amongst a list of 100 other artists including Elvis Presley and John Lennon

  18. “Gangsta Rap” emerged in the late 1980’s, going into the 1990’s • Ice-T, N.W.A. were well known names under this type • Gangsta Rap was criticized for references to vandalism, drug use, social vices

  19. Poetry in the rap songs during this time started to fade- starting instead to be more influenced by materialism and commercialism

  20. Reflects violent lifestyles of inner-city American black youths • “6 in the Mornin’” is often considered to be the first gangsta rap song in 1986

  21. NWA is frequently associated with gangsta rap • Lyrics were violent, openly confrontational, shocking, featured profanity • Lyrics were placed over rock guitar driven beats • Hard edged feel

  22. Depicted an outlaw lifestyle of sex, drugs, and violence in inner city America • N.W.A. “Straight Outta Compton” 1988 caused controversy- violent attitudes and inspired protests (even from the F.B.I.!)

  23. Attempts to censor it just made it more attractive to both black and white youth • Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Eazy-E started off in NWA

  24. Since the 1980’s rap music has influenced both the black and white culture • Slang of hip hop- dis, fly, def, chill, wack all became standard parts of vocabulary • Rap functioned as a voice for a community without access to mainstream media

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