Essays on Hip Hop

Cornell West, a philosopher who studied African Americans described hip hop as postural semantics. Dancing and deejaying formed the components of rapping. New York is the main source from originating hip-hop. Radio play was the first problem that rap ran into. The Black radio refused...

The Dred Scott v. Sandford was one of many cases that had a major impact on the equal rights of African Americans in America. Dred Scott was an enslaved African American. His owner’s name was John Emerson. John Emerson moved from salve territories and went...

Hip hop emerged as a music and cultural art form in the late 1970’s, due to deindustrialization, in the inner cities of New York city and served as a platform for poor Latinos and African Americans ( Clarke, 2007, and Jefferies,2011). Hip Hop is believed...

To sit down and listen to our favorite genre on the bus is a thing everyone does. Maybe it’s because we want more positivity in our life, maybe it’s because we want to educate us in the problems we have in our society or maybe...

Hip-Hop and Rock-n-Roll, at their beginnings, both had the same treatment as a genre and lifestyle. Both have been highly criticized for being too crude, brash, or callous. Even after all their criticism, these two genres would pave the way for some of America’s most...

During the 1980s hip hop arrived in Cuba via radio broadcasts from Miami. Since then the hip hop cultures main focused in breakdancing. By the 90s, with the collapse with the Soviet Union, many young “raperos” were looking for ways to demonstrate their disappointments. Hip...

Kanye West was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 8, 1977. West’s mother, Dona was a professor of English at Chicago State University. And West for most of his life was raised on Chicago’s middle-class south side with his mother where he was drawn to...

With Bts taking over the world with their message of self love and acceptance, let first look into who is in the group. Here is a short biography of each member. There are seven members in total, the leader being RM. He’s real name is...

Hip-Hop is a genre, culture and movement that emerged in the 1970’s from South Bronx, New York. The South Bronx residents created this unique new form of representation in hopes to break from the poverty, drug, and crime epidemics engulfing their gang dominated neighborhoods. While...

On September 1-2, 2018 I attended the Made in America Music Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. American rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z founded the festival in 2012. The festival brings together numerous genres of music including but not limited to hip-hop/rap, rock, pop, EDM, and even some...