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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 )
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One critic of Basquiat said that the boys in his paintings do not grow up to be men, but instead corpses, skeletons, and ghosts...
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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.
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Hip hop culture itself is comprised of many parts
M scene
Breakdancing
DJ
Graffiti
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A John bohm film