One DJ by the name of DJ Kool Herc, who emigrated here from Jamaica and settled in the Bronx focused his music on rhythm & blues and funk records. ... This was called "break-beat deejaying" and two turntables playing the same record were needed to perform it. ... The art form of hip hop consist of deejaying (the cutting and scratching of records), emceeing/rapping, break dancing, and grafitti art. Deejaying is the manipulation of a record over a particular groove in order to produce strange sounds. ... When I speak of hip hop as an occupation, I am talking about the making and selling of h...

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• Grade Level: High School

I am a 19-year-old Caucasian male in America and that is how the community sees me. ... In the beginning of the film he and one of his associates try to book time in a recording studio to cut their first record, but the white owner of the recording studio does not like the idea. It is not until they bring a white lawyer into the studio with them to negotiate that they are finally able to get in and record. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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Tupac Amaru Shaker: A Study to Determine Whether He is Alive or Dead I am what I would consider an average teenager involved in school, sports, and friends, but another extremely important aspect of a teenager's life today is music. Like most male teenagers of today, I am completely infatuated with Hip-Hop Culture. ... Tupac Shaker was gunned down in a drive-by shooting on Saturday, September 7, 1996, while leaving from a heavyweight fight in Las Vegas with Suge Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records, Tupac's record company. ...

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He wrote and recorded his last album titled Makaveli in 7 days with only 3-4 hours of sleep per night. ... "I feel as though I am a shining prince just like Malcolm and feel that all of us are shining princes, and if we live like shining princes, then whatever we want can be ours. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School