Hip-Hop a way of life

Hip-Hop is a way to express yourself through words and the sounds of music, but there are many who say that expressing yourself through Hip-Hop is only putting a negative view on yourself. Also many people think that Hip-Hop sending the wrong message to the young teens of today’s society. Also there are many people that have stated that Hip-Hop is only promoting violence, anger, and exploitative images that harm the youth of today. In the essay “If Hip-Hop Ruled the World” by Aisha K. Finch she expresses herself how Hip-Hop is portraying a negative view on African Americans, and how destructive is being to the youth of today.

For me Hip-Hop has to do nothing with what people’s actions are. Think about it, are we going to blame music for the wrong doings of young teens? Hip-Hop does not tell people to go pick up a gun and kill people. Hip-Hop is a style of music in which people could express anything, but especially their rough times that they had encounter. In the essay “if Hip-Hop ruled the World” by Aisha k. Finch says that “Yet the extensive airtime allotted to songs with destructive lyrics, coupled with visual counterpart, does take its toll. The repeated exposure to these sounds and images slowly desensitizes us to violence, anger, and exploitative sexual images that have become staples in much of Hip-Hop music” (Eschholz, 413). I believe that she is wrong for blaming Hip-Hop a style of music for violence, anger, and exploitative sexual images. Hip-Hop does not make you act a certain way towards people or anything.

If people believe that music is causing so much more negative than positive, than parents should tell their Childs not to listen to it. But that would not work, because Hip-Hop has gained so much recognition, and popularity all around the globe. So if Hip-Hop has gain so much fame all around the globe, why would so much people think that Hip-Hop has negative effects on people. Hip-Hop has gained this recognition and popularity around the globe because many of its fans could relate to the music that is being played. As a teen that comes from Bronx, New York Hip-Hop is what I mostly listen to and enjoy, I feel that Hip-Hop has done nothing negative to me or change me in any destructive way.

In the essay “If Hip-Hop ruled the world” Aisha K. Finch says that Hip-Hop portrays a negative image on African Americans and also on the youth of today. People have to understand that Hip-Hop is a style of music. Also Hip-Hop is music, is something that we should be able to enjoy and not criticized. In this time and era Hip-Hop is the type of music that popular and that most enjoyed by young teens. Blaming Hip-Hop for creating a negative view on African Americans is just wrong.

Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American communities during the late 1970s in New York City.[1] DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the five pillars of hip hop culture: rapping MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing.[2][3][4][5] Other elements include beatboxing.

Since its emergence in the South Bronx, hip hop culture has spread around the world.[6] Hip hop music first emerged with disc jockeys creating rhythmic beats by looping breaks (small portions of songs emphasizing a percussive pattern) on two turntables, more commonly referred to as sampling. This was later accompanied by "rap", a rhythmic style of chanting or poetry presented in 16 bar measures or time frames, and beatboxing, a vocal technique mainly used to imitate percussive elements of the music and various technical effects of hip hop DJ's. An original form of dancing and particular styles of dress arose among fans of this new music. These elements experienced considerable refinement and development over the course of the history of the culture.
The relationship between graffiti and hip hop culture arises from the appearance of new and increasingly elaborate and pervasive forms of the practice in areas where other elements of hip hop were evolving as art forms, with a heavy overlap between those who wrote graffiti and those who practiced other elements of the culture.


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