Hip Hop
music’s purpose is about inspiration and motivation of someone life. In hip hop
the person is telling the listener about their life but not in a book in a
different way with music and rhythm. Hip Hop isn’t just entertainment of the
person that is singing it or talking about it but the listeners such as I is
entertainment. The music has a story but not all music is a story about the
artist life. If you listen to the words and not the music or the rhythm it’s
such a powerful story. Most of the artists of Hip Hop are black males and black
females. But now it’s diverse in the hip hop industries and even rappers are
diverse. Hip Hop is a problem around the
world some parents don’t let their children listen to it. My parents hated and
it wasn’t allowed to be heard in my house. My dad thought it was provoked and
it wasn’t music it was music that downgraded women. I don’t think it is. I
think it’s just music and its entertainment and that’s all I hear.
Hip Hop has
its pro and cons. The positive some artist talks about love and how its life
and some people can relate and also some artist music can be motived. Athletes
such as me listen to rap or hip hop to get me in the mood before my games. One song
that I always listen to is “My Time” by Fabolous ft Jeremih. This song talks
about how to go hard and how to live in every moment. It motives me and gets me
in the mood. The cons about hip hop most artist talk about sex, girls calling
them the B word or hoes, sluts, and tricks and parties and drinking. But I can
understand it talks about all that but its entertainment and the music isn’t for
everyone. Also the music videos most videos are provoked because there are
females that are half dressed and naked and just dancing with the stuff coming
out.
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Hi Jennifer,
ReplyDeleteIt's great that you are able connect the content of some hip-hop songs to your own life; that shows your ability to make connections to your own life! Do you think that music (or maybe media more generally) does impact people's behavior or choices? Does hip-hop have a responsibility to its listeners to try to correct some of these problematic aspects? What are the connections between white supremacy, capitalism and patriarchy and some of the issues in hip-hop?
--eas