I got you covered, I just provided links in response to your previous comment. Hey Ayymar, I completely understand trust me! This article as also been featured on other websites as a reference and you are certainly not the first to ask for references.
Thanks T Slick! Feel free to come back and visit anytime! Thanks for taking the time to show love and support! Thanks for the information and history. I teach struggling readers in the 9th grade, and we have a unit on music. Your article offered great insight, and I was able to pass that along to my students.
Thanks again! Great resource!! I salute you for giving back to your community in the manner that you are! Thanks for reading and commenting and I appreciate all the love and support!
Best wishes in all that you do! This really helped me because im doing a project on rap and I stumbled across this as I was looking up the origins of rap. Thank- You so much. Also do you have any thoughts on English Grime music??
Would you be willing to send me some of your sources for this article? Any info is appreciated. Thanks for reaching out. Wishing you the best on your paper! Too funny!! I was researching some information and I ran across your website. My brother and I grew up in the S. We clearly remember walking to White Castle and hearing music coming from somewhere when we decided to follow the sound. Echo Park was a frequent place for these gatherings and I often wondered how we were able to seal off a city block or an entire park without the authorities interfering.
These outdoor parties stopped when almost 2 yrs. We all knew it would happen. It was just a matter of time. I later became a foster child in the NY system and joined the Zulu Nation. He in the juvenile prison system and me in foster care.
As I progressed in the Zulu Nation, I learned many things and hung out with many of the early rappers. I reconciled with my brother and entering college, I maintained contact with my friends that were diligent in giving me, a young black scholar all the advice and tools needed to survive on the streets especially when I declared I had a large inheritance and was tired of the responsibilities of trying to raise my brother.
I said I wanted to kill myself like mom did but 1st raise my brother. Then when he was settled and near college graduation, I would have gone thru the money using cocaine so nobody else could spend it after I was gone. I just wanted to be with my mom.
I met many heavy hitters and while in college only to be an example to my brother , I majored in TV Production and Film. I worked across the street from the ABC studios.
I was a hostess in a pub where media moguls and stars frequented. Because of my street sense, money and intelligence, I was asked to procure and partake. I was there. I knew everyone. Anyway, we all watched stories of how Richard Pryor burned himself up doing freebase and ether became a controlled substance banned from common street use.
Hello crack! Bronx neighborhood, but the explosion of unimaginable degradation that ensued shocked even the suppliers! Women rented out their small children or outright sold them for the stuff, families lived in empty apartments as even picture frames were sold off for this new cheap, more available and addictive high.
Bronx property taxes were raised up to 5 times what they were and the chaos and destruction prompted property owners to simply burn their buildings and collect the insurance rather than make costly repairs or raising rent from delinquent tenants who were stripping the copper pipes to support their habit. The cops would line everyone up outside the building after shooting some and the perps would have their hands on the wall, legs spread, dogs, ambulances, paddy wagons and SWAT, all around and SO MANY police patting them down.
The last perp on the end of the line was allowed to be uncuffed and still sell crack to whoever wanted it without repercussions for either him or the buyer. I was honest, trusted and low drama with cash for those stars I knew downtown. If not for one word I got wrong, I would have been the only one in U. I learned my combat Spanish from the streets of NY while dealing with what I had to during the emergence of rap.
I missed how we girls would admire our black male physiques and giggle. Finally, my dad told me that since so many black men were trying hard to make a living but arrested and humiliated, taken to jail and having their shoelaces and belts taken and when released, had to walk home with no shoelaces or belts and hold up their pants during the most humiliating time of their lives, they simply began to sag and hold up their pants as a norm.
As a public display of their status. It is a form of rebellion and a visual by product of what is produced in our community. I got to see how this message has been perverted and misinterpreted even within our own communities as the elders once again fail to educate the youth. I spent 10 yrs. The rap community adopted this thing as a natural progression of the social climate and street fashion while the evolution of rap began to include the bragging rights to pimping and drug dealing that brings money into our decimated ghettos.
Most societies have profited from the misfortune of the weaker and since blacks are the weaker in the U. Not our oppressors. We should be proud and vocalize our message, as rap is an amazing impression on the world born of the least of us who only needed 2 turn tables and a microphone. Thanks so much Jennifer. It could literally be a full length article! I appreciate you sharing your story with me and I thoroughly enjoyed being immersed into your world during the duration of your writing.
Since your writing is already published on my website would it be okay if I published it as an article and gave you credit as the Author? It really is that good!! Thanks for your feedback on my article AmbyDread. Do you have any sources I could check out that are stating that rapping was taking place at Jamaican house parties before Kool Herc?
Do you have any articles that you could reference to that are stating that? Thanks for the positive feedback Alonso! I think many of them are elite in their own unique ways.
Hey man, absolutely loved your article, some great, great info here! Thanks for your recommendations for artists to check out. Thanks for your positive feedback and encouragement! Great article bro! Andy is a suberb rapper, check him out man.
Thanks for your article, God Bless You! You prolly already know NF and Andy Mineo but whatever. Thanks for the heads up though. Much respect and God Bless you too! My pleasure Aari! Thanks for reading and commenting with your positive feedback!
Thanks for your positive feedback Shazz! Much love to Canada from The States! I was wondering if some of the rappers in queens got their startup from any of the gangsters back in the day?
I know they were around when Run D MC, and others initially started out. I know some gangstas like to feel good by sponsoring basketball tournaments and potential celebrities sort of like an investment. I believe this is how some record labels got started. Sparking rivalries between the East coast and West coast that usually lead to some gun play and death. Any rapper trying to gain mainstream exposure will certainly need an investor unless they have the funds themselves to invest into their career.
If you find anything out please feel free to share it here. A LONG time ago I have read your articles and comments on how people have used your information for their music class. Thanks for using my article as a resource in your oral presentation. I hope everything works out great for you! Let me know how it goes. As I discuss in this article rap originated in the black community so it makes since that a large majority of rappers are black. But with that being said rap music is one of the most diverse genres of music as it is made up of all races, religions, genders, econimocal classes, and geographical locations.
Hip-Hop is world wide! Just google for them and you will come across lots and then continue to dig further from there with searching for articles, stories, etc.. Read many articles and found that usually rap has been showed as source of voilence. It evokes sexism, crimes and aggressive nature in youth. I, myself, listen to rap music. Can you help me out in this?
Can you tell me about literary content of rap lyrics? I hope this helps. Hi Cole, I really enjoyed your article and found it very informative.
Thanks for the positive feedback on my article. But until then you may want to use this article to dig deeper into points that were made which will in turn lead you to other sources confirming points made within this article. I apologize for not having my sources on hand but I do hope my article will still help aid you on your research. Best of luck! Found the above very educational.
What about Bob Marley? I think that some of his songs are rap like if not classified as rap. Marley fan since Thanks for chiming in. The interesting thing about rapping is you can find rapping in many different genres.
Thanks for the positive feedback! Am a law student at the International University of East Africa in Uganda, but i am so interested in in rap. Hey Kvt Thanks so much for all of your positive words!
I really do appreciate that! Keep being awesome in all that you do! Much love and respect to you and Uganda from The States! If you are still in the process of researching make sure you check out the Documentary Series on Netflix called Hip Hop Evolution. Thanks Drake I appreciate the positive feedback. Thanks so much for your kind words they truly do mean a lot! Sending a virtual high five your way! My pleasure Raven. Thanks a lot for the history — really enlightening. Well, Kendrick Lamar is one rapper I really admire.
His poetry, delivery, style and what have you are exceptional, I think. Thanks again for reading and commenting! Typically things have a way of evolving throughout time. How far does it go back? Thanks for checking out my article! Thanks for mentioning the band! The same applies to the mixing engineers and songwriters as well. Thanks for chiming in Human! Great article. Many thanks for that. Happiness to all. Hey Ed, Thanks so much for your positive feedback on my article and kind words.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing it with us all. Much love, peace, and happiness to you and yours as well! You can now hear rapping in every more of music. Keep up the hard work, stay focus and always be learning and one day I believe you will realize your dreams! Am an African rapper and am about going to study music in America, I was making enquiries when I came across this information and I found it most useful.
Hey Shawn, Thanks so much for all of your kind words! Colemize, I truley love your truth in the origins of RAP.
But I feel you may have left a very important root of truth out of your documentary on RAP origins. On How RAP was put on the map. Hey JRock, thanks for your kind words and critiques. My main focus on writing this article was to focus on the origins of rap so people can have a better understanding of where it originated from. To speak about the rise of its popularity and how it became the fastest-growing and most popular genre worldwide is a whole nother can of worms!
Perhaps I should write another article focusing on that? Thanks again for reading and commenting with your helpful feedback! I really do appreciate it! Hey Cole, I know you like rap obviously, but what do you think about other music such as pop, country, rock, and other music. Just I wanna know what music an artist like you listens to. While there was plenty of content antagonizing women, a few stepped forward to shift the tone of rap music for good, paving way for female rap stars as we know it today.
From the s on, well, the rest is history, as they say. Streaming and new technological advances allow for more nuances within the genre, helping out with sampling, beat development, and distribution methods. Four Over Four. Home Culture Who started rap? A brief summary on the history of rap and Share on Facebook. Listen to these genres to improve productivity. Are collaborations hurting or helping women in music?
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Just a decade later, some of the most successful rap hits relay messages formerly unheard of in the genre while the artists themselves come from a variety of backgrounds. While some aspects of this evolution are obvious, it is in the subtleties of these changes that the inextricable link between social and musical development is revealed. Lyrics and Society Perhaps the most striking difference between s hip-hop and more modern tracks is the lyrics.
In general, hip-hop in the previous decade had a relatively narrow focus. Rap was the story of the ghetto life and the anthem of gangsters, which prevented hip-hop from joining pop and rock in the mainstream.
Those who did listen to hip-hop, however, found that even as artists were carefully constructing their persona, there was honesty in their lyrics. The definition of who a rapper can be, and what stories hip-hop can tell, has broadened indefinitely since the mids. Even as sexuality increasingly perpetuates mainstream hip-hop, artists are less afraid to present a softer side to relationships as well.
Social Media and the Internet The Internet, and in particular the role of social media, has become an irrefutable reflection of societal development. Websites like Tumblr and Facebook, where users can express themselves by publishing photos or writing blog posts, seem to emphasize a fresh pursuit of individuality and self-expression.
According to WAJZ-FM program director J Will, it is this rising relevance of social media sites that bears responsibility for many of the stylistic developments within the hip-hop genre. If they know how to use sites like SoundCloud and YouTube, they can get themselves out there.
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