In music there has always been a cultural effect. ... Hip hop and rap were birthed in the 90's by groups and people like the Wu Tang Clan, Biggie smalls, Tupac, and snoop dogg. Along with Female rappers like Queen Latifa and SaIt-N-Pepa. ... " And while something like this may sound absurd to someone it's really true because when songs like ridin dirty came out rapper were truly able to express what was really going on. ... The encompassing word for this generation of music and music listeners is raw. ...

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Black people are portrayed to listen to rap music and gospel music more often than anything else. ... We are shown to really hate music that other cultures are shown to really love. According to Media, When black people listen to rap music it has to be played to the loudest volume and have the most curse words and disrespectful terms included in the song for them to like it. ... When it comes to music; I listen to whatever I like. ... My culture is stereotyped to only relate to gospel and rap music which are both some of my least favorite genres no matter how much I like both. ...

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Perhaps the biggest African influence is music; including jazz, blues, early forms of rock and roll, and especially rap. Elements of rap can be seen in early African songs such as James Weldon Johnson's Lift Every Voice and Sing. ...

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I can go into a music shop and count on finding the music of my race represented, into a supermarket and find the staple foods that fit with my cultural traditions, into a hairdresser's shop and find someone who can cut my hair. In my experience, music shop shelves are buried under piles of "Hip-Hop- or "Rap- music that supposedly represents the black subculture. White music, even if it could be defined as that, is what has the minority floor space. Besides, who ever labeled music as black or white anyway? ...

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The music industry today exemplifies this kind of separation. Rock and roll music was formerly made up of only whites, but gradually African-Americans moved into that genre of music. This is a good thing for racial equality, except for when you look at the other types of dominant music today, rap and rhythm and blues. There is almost no white singers in these entire styles of music. On MTV, there has been only two white rap singers in the history of the channel, and one of them, Vanilla Ice, is the subject of constant ridicule by black rap fans and performers. ...

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Music, one of the most expressive genres in entertainment provides a given voice for a generation. Our times, our generation, has Rap and Hip-Hop flowing creatively, mixing parallel communities with a unison voice depicting the same hard truths life teaches us. Rap and hip-hop artists become major influences upon the developing minds of a generation; their words and actions vitally affect the community. ... Music, one of the most expressive genres in entertainment provides a given voice for a generation. ... Rap and hip-hop artists become major influences upon the developing minds of a gen...

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For example, many young women choose female rap artists like Lil" Kim and Foxy Brown as there role models. ... In music, televison, the work force and even in the home, you see changes, but they are few. ...

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Similarly, if a white person plays basketball or listens to rap music, we might think of him or her as being too "black". ... Movies, music, and yes, even Looney Tunes , all put these ideas in our heads. ...

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Canada is a place full of cultural wealth. Many different kinds of people, cultures, and races live in Canada and call it their home. One race that had a significant role in the construction, molding and forming of Canada is the Black people and they really are not ever shown any gratitude for what they have done. This country owes them for what they have done and it is sad that we do not learn about Black history, not even in our high school Canadian history courses do we lean about black people in Canada. They did so much for their country even when life was not fair to them. ...

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