Within the past decade there has been a surfacing of provocative music in American pop culture. ... (Straight Outta Compton) Hip hop music is a major factor in today's pop culture, comparing to the past 20 years it has never been as big as it is today. ... With the creation of MTV and radio show, pop culture is shoved in front of the nation's youth most of the day where they are not in school. ... Violence in hip hop music has reached both sides of the spectrum, one where people see it as demeaning towards women and causes young minds to think and act more violently and the other si...

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I just popped up around 97th, 98th and Amsterdam. ... "There was a meeting when Sugar Pop came to New York in like 1980. ... Nowadays, every R&B artist is trying to pop lock. There's even videos that will teach you how to pop and lock like N'Sync. ... He's really good...he can pop. ...

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Michael Calderone from Pop Matters magazine suggests "When musicians and fashion purveyors Jay-Z and P. ... Even still wearing the traditional, current logo of the local team can still symbolize an artist's claims of his/her roots, but recent styles of sporting wear are more than just to show where you come from, but just by signifying pure fashion for fashion's sake in an ever-changing culture. In the future, as has always been the case, pop culture will seek out other remnants of the past, perhaps resurrecting long swimming trunks from the 1920s in reaction to contemporary Speedos ...

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They just don't know the true culture. ... I think this is a decaying state to the Hip-Hop culture. ... They need to know how deep hip-hop culture goes. ... Hip-Hop fans and lyricists who think they know all about hip-hop and think hip-hop is all about the commercialized derivative is caught up in pop culture. ... I think we should call this hip-pop. ...

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At the same time, another style of hip hop dance called "pop locking" surfaced. ... It is a culture for a movement of revolution. ... Earlier I stated that hip hop was a culture for a movement of revolution. ... Hip hop is a culture, it is a way off the streets for some people and an occupation for others. ... All of these things are part of the hip hop culture. ...

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Many support graffiti in the sense that it requires creativity and comes in many perceptions that represents the culture in a community (Torres, 2012). ... Graffiti has based its roots since ancient history during the emergence of hip-hop culture. It means that graffiti is a representation of culture and should be recognised as an art. ... In the U.S, graffiti has been viewed in criminal legal terms because the culture under which it evolved engaged itself in criminal activities. ... Most of hip-pop graffiti are drawn on public and private properties without the consent of the owner, or the go...

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Combined with the songs" melodies and lyrics, music videos along with the images of artists in pop culture today are powerful tools that can tattoo human minds and shape the attitudes of many. ... (Lecture Notes) In addition to cultures sharing dominant beliefs, television programming creates patterns regarding outcomes to various situations. ... (Bryant & Thompson 103) Sexism and the exploitation of women is a part of the learned mainstream American culture. Hip-hop culture is frequently condemned for its use of women as sex objects, but with mainstream American ideas being embedded into ...

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Moreover, MeLune insists that Powell only offers pathetic excuses for the inexcusable treatment of black women by the Hip-Hop culture. ... If the article itself doesn't persuade the reader of this then one can easily goggle Jennifer McLune, click images and a caramel skinned female with jet-black dreadlocks pops up. ... Powell's article is about hip hop and how big of an influence it has become in American culture. ...

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I chose to do research on hip-hop dancing and culture in Hong Kong. ... There is the breaking, popping, locking, freestyle, new school, old school and mainstream routines. ... To make things clear when I say hip-hop dancing, I am referring to mainstream routines, breaking, popping, locking, freestyle, new school and old school dancing. ... Some schools chose American hip-hop songs, some chose canto pop, some mandarin and even Korean pop songs. ... In this period, he learned many hip-hop dancing styles such as popping, locking, new school and old school hip-hop from High King. ...

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Black Social Movement "Hip- Hop as a Revolution" Music has played a significant role upon culture for Black Americans. ... Beats led by drums and other different instruments have been prevalent throughout African- American culture with their roots being in Africa. ... Every pop group and boy- band that is selling albums today is attempting to be part of the revolution that is hip- hop. ...

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And because of that, many people wanted to join in this new culture because it had no color lines, just love. ... MTV is still being played around the world with daily countdowns of rap, hip-hop, R&B, Rock, and Pop music. ...

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Who would have thought that two turntables and a mixer could be use as a form instrument? Who would have thought that by moving the record back and forth could create its own class of music? Most people get Rap and Hip-Hop mixed up. Rap and Hip-Hop are two total different things. When you refer ...

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And because of that, many people wanted to join in this new culture because it had no color lines, just love. ... MTV is still being played around the world with daily countdowns of rap, hip-hop, R&B, Rock, and Pop music. ...

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Since the early nineteen forties America has had a serious problem trying to censor music. The problem did not actually surface until the nineteen sixties with the Vietnam War and the hippie movement. During the nineteen seventies and eighties heavy metal and hard rock were the two general types...

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In a world full of anti-censorship, liberation, and free will, the sky's the limit. Words of hate, bigotry, sexism, and racism grace today's airwaves with no questions asked. Eminem, a top rapper today, sings about killing gays, his mom, and his wife. Jay-Z rants about how many girls he's "bagged...

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