Is the Hip Hop heard on the radio actually Hip Hop?
What is Hip Hop Culture?
Old or New School?
How much does Hip Hop Culture influence teenagers and young adults?
I started my project with these three questions.
Interviewing people I started to pick up on a pattern, most of the people seemed to like old school better and that today's music is full of misogyny.
(pictures of people I interviewed)
Old or New School?
How much does Hip Hop Culture influence teenagers and young adults?
I started my project with these three questions.
Interviewing people I started to pick up on a pattern, most of the people seemed to like old school better and that today's music is full of misogyny.
(pictures of people I interviewed)
John, a junior at CYHS
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Mr. Wertz, art teacher at CYHS
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Natalia, a junior at CYHS
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Mr. Howard, a graphic design teacher at CYHS
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Mr. Hodge, an acting teacher at CYHS
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Demosthenes , a junior student at CYHS
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I took the answers I received from interviews, the documentary I watched about the N.W.A and many online resources to create a documentary, an album cover, an art gallery, and to analyze a song.
The documentary sums up the history of rap music from where it began after the =civil rights movement in the Bronx, NY during the late 70's and progressed into the golden age which is from the 80's to the end of the 90's where the music business for hip hop music although highly critiqued flourished and even branched off to other genres like crunk and rap music that late branched into political rap, commercial rap and, gangsta rap creating multiple music genres. It goes in depth on Biggie, Tupac and N.W.A making a note of their importance and why they impacted the hip hop culture.
One of the musicians I talked about was a Compton rap group in the 80's called the N.W.A who created a genre of gangsta rap music which had a lot more profanity, violence and sexual content. Their purpose was to expose the harsh inner city life of La, California during the crack epidemic to the middle class white people. I analyzed one of their most controversial songs known as "F Da Police" which was made to speak about the poor treatment citizens were receiving from the LAPD. I made historical connections to the lyrics along with explaining each person's perspective on the police brutality that was happening.
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I then created a vynel record album for an upcoming rap artists, taking what I thought were his ten most meaningful songs and making an art piece out of it. Most of his music consisted of a self reflection, his near death experiences, being brought down by other people, and to have hop and faith.
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At the end of all of this I came to better understand why the music changed and hip hop has shifted. he music was born out of frustration of society and continued that way, the violence was their reality. And today's hip hop music that you hear on the radio is commercial hip hop. Not true to it's traditional music those artists are told what to make by people in the music business, only putting out the music that will sell.
