2/14

Rap,Culture,&God
02/14/12

Interweaving spirituality, hip hip, poetry...street poetry

Tupac / Biggie
West / East

Poetry:

1. The pure form of the language and words --- rhythms, flows, rhymes,
Couplets... Style.
(Biggie)
Ezra Pound (literary intellectual of 20th century)

2. The form plus the content: the ideas, experiences, themes, in addition to the form of language
(Tupac)


Sampling
Crucial move in the ,movement of hip hop
Taking excerpts of other/older songs to mix over...

Shift from r&b to hide hop
Juicy Fruit mtume
To Juicy - biggie
Mr magic music producer

Documentary of history of hip hop
Moe dee vs busy bee
Birth of lyrical mc

Juice crew vs