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Rap,Culture,&God
02/23/12


Jay Z decoded (on next exam)
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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
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Should be no surprise there is a connection between religion and hippopotami given poverty foci
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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
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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

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Beginning a tribe called quest