Rap,Culture,&God
03/06/12
Next test is march 27th
Geto Boys (scarf ace, unlocked rapper)
"the world is a ghetto" soc pol song world wide perspective on poverty
Take a trip to the wether side lyric
Parallel to bono's statement about Africa being the exception to the rule of what's acceptable
Southern culture influences a lot ...as with snoop inflections
"mind playin tricks eon me"
Intense paranoia... He's being haunting by the Spector of death
Verse two, empty in spite of all the things
Verse three, scarface...
The threats of emptiness, of nihilism, the purpose/less
Fatal thoughts
[the plane of life pic]
....
Outlast
Feat goodie mob
"Git up get out"
Negativity weighs it down, not feeling accepted by the audience but remembering the lords acceptance
Didn't bring me here just to just leave me ...linelyric
...
Popular culture influences of hip hop:
1. Movies: Hollywood ---
A. gangster movies; scarface the godfather
Biggie referenced frank white (old scoo gangster)
Tupacs defense...
Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese films receive rewards
Creating a sub culture in the American life
B. Blaxploitation movies,
Play on/off the stereotypes and make fun of it
Shaft, buggy bear, dolemite, blackula ,black dynamite
Representation of black stereotypes the heroic figures,: pimp, a bad ass, leader, ladies man, strong...
Pimp being a great example of how these influences expand definitions j
Stood out by the clothes, cars: Loud colorful clothes... Polar opposite of dr king or Malcolm x.... Very showy ostentatious, etc. bootsy Collins
Robert townson... Marks the blaxploitation genre
C. Kung Fu movies ( subtle but very present Influence)
Quintain Terintino
Grand master ...flash
Woo tang clan almost every album was an image to Kung fu movies
D. Sports: subtle presense on hip hop... Especially basketball the old ABA... Tending to be almost exclusively African american.... With a style of clothing that was not as accepted mainstreame
Julius urban
Style flare
Jribbling ability, passing,
....
Tattoos on the Heart
Cornell west definition of nihilism... Not just meaninglessness, but The threat of loveless ness
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
3/1
Rap,Culture,&God
03/01/12
80s/90s generating a theme of nihilism
Tattoos in the heart documentary
The Notorious BIG
'Respect' lyrics, ...haven't even been born and I'm seein my death...
Ominous overtone yet with transformation occurring
Ready to Die album pointing toward the nihilism - street poetry
----
King Leer of Shakespeare
Also book of Jove compared with tupac
'wish I was never born' dark sentiment
------
"Ain't Nuthin But A G Thing"
SnoopnDoggyDr. Dre
Lyrics...Just like a clock when I tick and I talk...
Exception gangster rap and witty street poetry rhythm
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Foo gees, Lauryn Hill
Wyclef Jean "if I were president"
Wyclef is from Haiti
Strong social consciousness
...Hard hitting / Award winning photograph depicted by the lyric of an infant with vultures waiting for it to die..
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Jay-Z on street art (pg 92-)
Combination of street art with European masters; Christianity and Santeria (Cuban combination of Catholicism and african religions) and Voodoo (Haiti )
"
One critic of Basquiat said that the boys in his paintings do not grow up to be men, but instead corpses, skeletons, and ghosts...
"
Basquiat sits on my wall as a warning
...Heroism...
Hip hop and Basquiat are the voices of the boys that grow up to die at very young ages...
Not evil foreboding but tragic Fact of life, exceptional about hip hop and rap is how they get you to face these facts...
Taking us back to Tats oin the heart
-Pg 52--- poverty and shame: low confidence: toxic sense of self worthlessness or feeling of unworthiness in urban world that seem intimately linked/associated with poverty... Or broken homes or family unit dysfunction
"Global sense of failure of the whole self"
-Pg 89---( manifestations of ) Nihilism lurking Though
...We taste only sacredness... But this sense is abolished by inner city conditions
...Lethal absence of hope in the gang member.
....failure to conjure up the the elevated self, instead plan their funerals rather than their futures
....says many homies have a whole in their soul in the shape of their dad
....intense anger pg 107...
...inability to express and know compassion.
...
[
Hip hop culture itself is comprised of many parts
M scene
Breakdancing
DJ
Graffiti
]
A John bohm film
03/01/12
80s/90s generating a theme of nihilism
Tattoos in the heart documentary
The Notorious BIG
'Respect' lyrics, ...haven't even been born and I'm seein my death...
Ominous overtone yet with transformation occurring
Ready to Die album pointing toward the nihilism - street poetry
----
King Leer of Shakespeare
Also book of Jove compared with tupac
'wish I was never born' dark sentiment
------
"Ain't Nuthin But A G Thing"
SnoopnDoggyDr. Dre
Lyrics...Just like a clock when I tick and I talk...
Exception gangster rap and witty street poetry rhythm
----
Foo gees, Lauryn Hill
Wyclef Jean "if I were president"
Wyclef is from Haiti
Strong social consciousness
...Hard hitting / Award winning photograph depicted by the lyric of an infant with vultures waiting for it to die..
----
Jay-Z on street art (pg 92-)
Combination of street art with European masters; Christianity and Santeria (Cuban combination of Catholicism and african religions) and Voodoo (Haiti )
"
One critic of Basquiat said that the boys in his paintings do not grow up to be men, but instead corpses, skeletons, and ghosts...
"
Basquiat sits on my wall as a warning
...Heroism...
Hip hop and Basquiat are the voices of the boys that grow up to die at very young ages...
Not evil foreboding but tragic Fact of life, exceptional about hip hop and rap is how they get you to face these facts...
Taking us back to Tats oin the heart
-Pg 52--- poverty and shame: low confidence: toxic sense of self worthlessness or feeling of unworthiness in urban world that seem intimately linked/associated with poverty... Or broken homes or family unit dysfunction
"Global sense of failure of the whole self"
-Pg 89---( manifestations of ) Nihilism lurking Though
...We taste only sacredness... But this sense is abolished by inner city conditions
...Lethal absence of hope in the gang member.
....failure to conjure up the the elevated self, instead plan their funerals rather than their futures
....says many homies have a whole in their soul in the shape of their dad
....intense anger pg 107...
...inability to express and know compassion.
...
[
Hip hop culture itself is comprised of many parts
M scene
Breakdancing
DJ
Graffiti
]
A John bohm film
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
2/28
Rap,Culture,&God
02/28/12
Trick Daddy - I'm a Thug
Raise of gangster rap thru 80s...
Death associated with all different realms
Hip hop became the CNN of that context , voice of that reality
Capture the pride of thug life
Civil rights movement key players dressed respectable, mainstream... Educated, law abiding, composed....
Hip hop generation, dress became confrontational ... A rejection of the conventions of 'respectable'
A Tribe Called Quest "Check the Rhime"
Electric relaxationi
NWA...
KRS one ...criminal minded
Scholar, Anthony Pinn defines 3 categories of Rap:
1. Status rappers
Narrative of poverty of success...
Materialism.
E.g rappers delight
2. Gangster Rap/hh
Fiercely Antiestablishment
Suspicious of all authority
History of oppression and mistreatment
Strong element of Nihilism - lack of ethics leading to life takin
Intense violence,
Pride of gangs
3. Socially Conscious Hip Hop
Strong value of spiritual, political, and historical education....
Self-awareness & realization... To know thyself
Jay Z as example of how these categories aren't mutually exclusive (test case:)
Theme of being a hustler (pg 12)
Rap had to evolve.... Divide, disconnect.... Early rap (partying, status kind of rap) did not capture the harshness of inner city life.....
It did not address some of the social problems: violence, drugs, police, abuse, etc.
Jay z particular interest in the psychology of a young kid in the ghetto... That was / is his story to share,tell and represent to the world of those who relate....
Witty description of poetry: pg 54 (importance)
- - a poet makes words work sonically , as sounds and music.... Rhythm and rhyme to'm..... Beyond just the content of the words, it conveys.
***Poets bends language... Recreating... Redefining...
Improvise and invent new ways of speaking the truth.***
...turns ordinary and familiar language into something that appears new, strange, surprising.
Like, as with
Walt Whitman makes you experience things youre very familiar with in whole new ways, e.g. look at grass thru a child's eyes
Exam q on 99 problems...
Native tongues
02/28/12
Trick Daddy - I'm a Thug
Raise of gangster rap thru 80s...
Death associated with all different realms
Hip hop became the CNN of that context , voice of that reality
Capture the pride of thug life
Civil rights movement key players dressed respectable, mainstream... Educated, law abiding, composed....
Hip hop generation, dress became confrontational ... A rejection of the conventions of 'respectable'
A Tribe Called Quest "Check the Rhime"
Electric relaxationi
NWA...
KRS one ...criminal minded
Scholar, Anthony Pinn defines 3 categories of Rap:
1. Status rappers
Narrative of poverty of success...
Materialism.
E.g rappers delight
2. Gangster Rap/hh
Fiercely Antiestablishment
Suspicious of all authority
History of oppression and mistreatment
Strong element of Nihilism - lack of ethics leading to life takin
Intense violence,
Pride of gangs
3. Socially Conscious Hip Hop
Strong value of spiritual, political, and historical education....
Self-awareness & realization... To know thyself
Jay Z as example of how these categories aren't mutually exclusive (test case:)
Theme of being a hustler (pg 12)
Rap had to evolve.... Divide, disconnect.... Early rap (partying, status kind of rap) did not capture the harshness of inner city life.....
It did not address some of the social problems: violence, drugs, police, abuse, etc.
Jay z particular interest in the psychology of a young kid in the ghetto... That was / is his story to share,tell and represent to the world of those who relate....
Witty description of poetry: pg 54 (importance)
- - a poet makes words work sonically , as sounds and music.... Rhythm and rhyme to'm..... Beyond just the content of the words, it conveys.
***Poets bends language... Recreating... Redefining...
Improvise and invent new ways of speaking the truth.***
...turns ordinary and familiar language into something that appears new, strange, surprising.
Like, as with
Walt Whitman makes you experience things youre very familiar with in whole new ways, e.g. look at grass thru a child's eyes
Exam q on 99 problems...
Native tongues
Thursday, February 23, 2012
2/23
Rap,Culture,&God
02/23/12
Jay Z decoded (on next exam)
------ review from
History of hip hop - battles , 1st cool mo dee and busy bee
Bomb b bomb dad dang da dang diggit Ee
IRS one suggests this was the crucial shift to the mo dee meaning stylin and battling boosting
KRs one Mc Shan
Mc Shan associated with queens origins of hip hop
KRS one Bronx pride
Origins of hip hop artists
----
Should be no surprise there is a connection between religion and hippopotami given poverty foci
----
jay z
Hard knock life
"Analyzing life's ills" lyric
SongCry
June 4, 2002
Moment of Clarity
insight, enlightenment,
Given by god
The absent father...
Moment of clarity is about remarkable forgiveness, and they have the same face but he doesn't know you... To the same game I saw so many others fall..
....Steve Harvey on original kings of comedy mentioning how they stopped singing about love...
True but the movement illuminated important topics
-----
Beat Rhymhms and tribe called quest
Origins of hip hip
1. Social context first stage of hip hop emerges:
1970s, particularly ny , escalating unemployment, especially in inner cities... Poverty, deteriorating schools, poor health careh, growing violence, prejudice (still in civil rights movement)
1980s, U.S. wide, "crack epidemic" cocaine devastating ripple effect
---Reagan administration enforcing longer sentences for drug..., rates of incarceration exploded
Unjust targeting of minority community
---Police brutality
Also note Clothing of hip hop was very much a reflection of prison culture...
--- gangs and drugs, and atrosive violence....
Irony, 80s economic boom in surrounding communities and yet things were never worse in the inner city... The divide between have and have nots,,
--- destruction of the family unit...
Not just absent fathers but also mothers...
Creem by wotang clan
Gangster rap develops in the context of this 80s epidemic and boom
As is addressed by tattoos on the heart
It lead to things like the theme of *nihilism *and lack of meaning in life...
Then leading to theme of Materialism in this culture
-----
Beginning a tribe called quest
02/23/12
Jay Z decoded (on next exam)
------ review from
History of hip hop - battles , 1st cool mo dee and busy bee
Bomb b bomb dad dang da dang diggit Ee
IRS one suggests this was the crucial shift to the mo dee meaning stylin and battling boosting
KRs one Mc Shan
Mc Shan associated with queens origins of hip hop
KRS one Bronx pride
Origins of hip hop artists
----
Should be no surprise there is a connection between religion and hippopotami given poverty foci
----
jay z
Hard knock life
"Analyzing life's ills" lyric
SongCry
June 4, 2002
Moment of Clarity
insight, enlightenment,
Given by god
The absent father...
Moment of clarity is about remarkable forgiveness, and they have the same face but he doesn't know you... To the same game I saw so many others fall..
....Steve Harvey on original kings of comedy mentioning how they stopped singing about love...
True but the movement illuminated important topics
-----
Beat Rhymhms and tribe called quest
Origins of hip hip
1. Social context first stage of hip hop emerges:
1970s, particularly ny , escalating unemployment, especially in inner cities... Poverty, deteriorating schools, poor health careh, growing violence, prejudice (still in civil rights movement)
1980s, U.S. wide, "crack epidemic" cocaine devastating ripple effect
---Reagan administration enforcing longer sentences for drug..., rates of incarceration exploded
Unjust targeting of minority community
---Police brutality
Also note Clothing of hip hop was very much a reflection of prison culture...
--- gangs and drugs, and atrosive violence....
Irony, 80s economic boom in surrounding communities and yet things were never worse in the inner city... The divide between have and have nots,,
--- destruction of the family unit...
Not just absent fathers but also mothers...
Creem by wotang clan
Gangster rap develops in the context of this 80s epidemic and boom
As is addressed by tattoos on the heart
It lead to things like the theme of *nihilism *and lack of meaning in life...
Then leading to theme of Materialism in this culture
-----
Beginning a tribe called quest
Thursday, February 16, 2012
2/16
Rap,Culture,&God
02/16/12
Rakim " when I b on tha mic"
In hip hop circles think of him as best lyricist
Boasting as a tradition of hip hop
Battles
Durham.. Hiphop minor
Francophile project
Big presentation next fall..
Playful use of Language
------->
-Signifying:
A. Language of trickery, satire, and irony...
Irony: the apparent, literal meaning is different than the actual, deeper meaning... Like "he's signifying" as in saying something that isn't obvious.
Satire: humorous criticism
B. boasts, insults, berating another person, bragging characteristics
---toasts: narrative poem, often as a boast
---dozens: the game of insults often about one's mama
Signifying monkey book:
Monkey,elephant,and a lion
Lion, considered king of jungle
Elephant, majestic
Monkey, the weaker powerless position... He uses language to trick, deceive, and challenge his condition of powerlessness
Slave masters being in position of lion elephant with power...
Monkey using language to combat inequity
Signifying: "Their verse were their own and abounding in hidden satires intended for unkind masters"
H. Rap Brown:
Secular street poet... He is the Closest analogy to hip hop
Langston Hughes:
Great African American poet
Playing on the tradition of your mama jokes
Mohammad Ali:
Analogy of hip hop poetry likened to boxing... Possible explaination why man predominant hip hop... It's a violent poetry
Get used to me so what me name fool
Chuck d riffing on the human condition
02/16/12
Rakim " when I b on tha mic"
In hip hop circles think of him as best lyricist
Boasting as a tradition of hip hop
Battles
Durham.. Hiphop minor
Francophile project
Big presentation next fall..
Playful use of Language
------->
-Signifying:
A. Language of trickery, satire, and irony...
Irony: the apparent, literal meaning is different than the actual, deeper meaning... Like "he's signifying" as in saying something that isn't obvious.
Satire: humorous criticism
B. boasts, insults, berating another person, bragging characteristics
---toasts: narrative poem, often as a boast
---dozens: the game of insults often about one's mama
Signifying monkey book:
Monkey,elephant,and a lion
Lion, considered king of jungle
Elephant, majestic
Monkey, the weaker powerless position... He uses language to trick, deceive, and challenge his condition of powerlessness
Slave masters being in position of lion elephant with power...
Monkey using language to combat inequity
Signifying: "Their verse were their own and abounding in hidden satires intended for unkind masters"
H. Rap Brown:
Secular street poet... He is the Closest analogy to hip hop
Langston Hughes:
Great African American poet
Playing on the tradition of your mama jokes
Mohammad Ali:
Analogy of hip hop poetry likened to boxing... Possible explaination why man predominant hip hop... It's a violent poetry
Get used to me so what me name fool
Chuck d riffing on the human condition
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