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
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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
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King Leer of Shakespeare
Also book of Jove compared with tupac
'wish I was never born' dark sentiment
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"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
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