As rap music has emerged from ghettos, it too has played an extremely important role in the lives of American youth today. ... In the 1970's the young residents of the Bronx in New York introduced us to a new style of music called rhythm and poetry, or better known as Rap. ... Kelley, professor of history at New York University, said that rap singers have never celebrated gang violence ( gang-bangin"). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

I can remember seeing Beat Street for the first time, and actually getting a glimpse of the some of New York's most famous B-boying crews on the big screen. ... "There was a meeting when Sugar Pop came to New York in like 1980. ... And then he called us up and said, Hey I got three friends coming to New York with Lionel Richie, they got a big hit record. ... Ghetto Superstars The movies propelled these local B-boys into an unimaginable stratosphere that Hip-Hop's forefathers could have never foreseen. ...

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Check your nearest overpopulated ghetto, they greet you with a pistol not trying to say hello, mad kids packed 'cos the neighbourhood's like that, want some shit that's fat catch a victim do a stick. ...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School