Perry argues four distinctions of hip-hop music that make it characteristically black American Music 1. ... It is no secret how music permeates the human psyche, namely music's significance to culture. ... Within the rap arena no subject goes untouched. ... Rap pushes the importance of mobility as a sign of freedom in African-American tradition and this resonates in hip-hop music (Stepto, 1991). ... Rap music should be considered as a necessary tool to reach this particular subculture in America. ...

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The most popular musical artists are of Hip Hop music in origin. Hip Hop is a genre of music strongly dominated by the black community. ... Music is not the only area Hip Hop culture is present in pop culture. ... The one black man in the beginning is a rapper named Rich Bowers heavily involved with the Hip Hop music/dance club industries and the crime associated with both industries. ... This is a very stereotypical view of black rappers as being gangsters. ...

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Furthermore, we can see the trend of white appropriation of black music throughout the next generations of black inspired music: Jazz, Rock and Roll, and eventually, Hip-hop. ... Eminem, a highly respected white rapper, grew up in poverty in a black community. ... However, his successes were not only based off his skills as a rapper, but credit his success to his race and to his record label's intended audience: the white consumer. ... White people using black music and culture takes away the authenticity and meaning in which black people created the music for in the first place. ... Th...

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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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This goes for hip hop music as well. ... The reader is left wondering: Does she work in the music industry? Has she been traumatically influenced by the music industry in some way? ... On the other hand, the comments McLune makes pertaining to Jay-Z are meaningless because she fails to establish credibility to offer an opinion of this music genre. ... In Powell's article he references people from William Shakesphere to McLyte, a female rapper. ...

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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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Another picture was one of the music sensation Miley Cyrus, and was meme of her dancing in one of her music videos, with a part of the song being captioned under it. ... The phrase "you mad" originated from this video clip; rapper Cam'ron accused Bill O'Reilly of being mad when he began interrupting then Rocafella CEO Damon Dash. ... Another example is a picture that of Miley Cyrus, she is a well-known white female celebrity in the music industry. In the meme is a picture of her dancing in her music video "We Can't Stop." Since the video came out, it caused a huge...

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The new usage of the word was popularized by "gansta rap," music that celebrated West Coast gang violence, during the early 1990's. It was later adopted by many young black fans of rap and hip-hop, the word had been used by black comedians, like Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy and movies about urban culture. ... Fans other than black account for a large share of rap and hip-hop sales, and have long been exposed to the new usage. ...

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