Month: May 2016

Do you think the N-Word is a bad word and should it be used in Hip-Hop?

I think the word is bad but it can be used as a complement.

I think he is saying that he will doing anything for his friends.

It is different to other song because he has used the word Negus instead of the N-Word. Negus means royalty or kings, he is using both words to make one that means black royalty.

“See N***a was first used in the Deep South, rolling out the dome out the white mans mouth”

I chose this because when black people were slaves white people called black people N***a’s.

In my essay I will be talking about the reel. The Reel is when people act a certain way to ‘fit in’ people do this because of the way music had portrayed them, The Reel is a concept created by a writer called M.K Asante, A show Reel is in the cinema to show a movie, a show reel is used for entertainment, so M.K Asante is saying the rappers that talk about Guns,Drugs,Money and Girls are lying they are rapping those thing to get money.

Hip-Hop was made in the South Bronx it focused on emceeing, break beats and house parties.
Hip-hop started out to be when emcees would speak or chant rhyming lyrics it was called commercial hip-hop. Hip-hop as we know it today started to become popular when a rap group called “sugar hill gang” made a song called rappers delight, major companies such as CBS, Polygram, Warner, BMG, Capitol-EMI and MCA started purchasing the labels. The record labels didn’t think they would get profit talking about police brutality and social issues so they decided to change what they were rapping about, the things they rapped about was guns, money, drugs and girls. When the rappers changed there lyrics White Suburban people liked to listen to the new lyrics and bought the songs, the White suburban customers explained that they “enjoy the hyper violent lyrics.”

Mos Def

At the moment we are studying a rapper called Mos Def in one of his songs called Mathematics has lots of quotes to criticise the reel. The quote that I’m choosing to use is “This is business, no faces, just lines and statistics” If I break the quote down I think he means when he says “This is business” I think he means that because how music has changed now the emcees don’t have a choice about what they want to rap about. When he says “no faces” I think he means, because rappers rap about what sells they are only know because of their record labels. And when he says “just lines and statistics” I think he means by saying lines he is talking about the bars and when he says statistics he means their profits.

Akala

Another artist we are studying is named Akala he has appeared on the Television program SBTV where he is discreetly criticising the Reel in his song, one of his quotes is ‘Just thought that killing should not be glorified, silly me
Apparently murdering man has become an aspiration’ Akala is saying that killing people should not be an aspiration and implies that killing has been norma in society  . He also says
‘Sorry kids let me apologise before I go further
Unfortunately I don’t rap about how many man I’ve have murdered’ Akala is apologising for not being a stereotypical liar that raps about girls, money, guns and drugs.

Mick Jenkins

Mick Jenkins is a rapper we have studied he has many songs that criticise the reel one of them is called Martyrs in this song Mick Jenkins refers to hanging as a double entendre chilling with your friends and to be lynched, to be lynched means to be hanged by a tree, in his song he says ” Ima get all this money, Ima buy all this shit, Ima fuck some many hoes, N*gga ima fuck yo bitch”, here Mick Jenkins adopts the mindset of the youth nowadays, the youth think this way because of the change in music since Hip-Hop began.

Kendrick Lamar

We have studied a rapper Called Kendrick Lamar and his song “The Blacker the Berry”  Kendrick Lamar uses repetition on his song “The Blacker the Berry” to talk and criticise the way white people treat black, Kendrick Lamar explains how to be blacker is to be better and that they shouldnt be intimidated by the whites in his song “The Blacker the Berry” Kendrick says “The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice
The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice The blacker the berry, the bigger I shoot”  i think he is saying is that black people should not angered or upset with there race because black people are just as equal as white people, he shows this by saying “I said they treat me like a slave, cah’ me black
Woi, we feel a whole heap of pain, cah’ we black
And man a say they put me in a chain, cah’ we black”

Hip-Hop started in New York in 1970.
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Content is critical of social issues.
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Starts to become popular.
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Major companies buy smaller labels and start to control, music changes.
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White Suberbia buys these records.
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Consumers admit they enjoy violent lyrics.
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Rappers become to scared to change because they wouldn’t get a label.
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The Reel is perpetrated.

Qoute:
“Some critics argue that the commercialisation and globalisation of Hip-Hop”

Meaning:
Music becomes generic and rappers and to afraid to do anything different.

Quote:
“Whites have admitted to being attracted to the hyper violent lyrics and sexual themes presented in many modern day rap songs”

Meaning:
Consumers admit they enjoy the hyper violent lyrics.

In my essay I will be talking about the reel. The Reel is when people act a certain way to ‘fit in’ people do this because of the way music had portrayed them, before Hip-Hop was a thing, Black people were making music called which they would sing whistle doing their work when they were slaves.

Hip-Hop started to become popular when a rap group called “sugar hill gang” made a song called rappers delight, major companies such as CBS, Polygram, Warner, BMG, Capitol-EMI and MCA started purchasing the labels. The record labels didn’t think they would get profit talking about police brutality and social issues

•What you going to talk about

The Reel:
When people act a certain way to ‘fit in’
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Music->Hip-Hop

Music companies
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Saw Hip-Hop as profitable
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Before Hip-Hop was invested in, the music content was about things that affected the inner city.
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White Suberbia
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White Suberbia is thought that they were experiencing authentic blackness.

The Reel is a way people act to ‘fit in’. Reel is a type of Music called Hip-Hop. Hip-Hop was invested in music because it was profitable. When rappers nowadays talk about guns, money and girls they are all reel. A Reel is what they use in a cinema to play films to ENTERTAIN people just like the rappers.

To Mr McGregor,

Im sorry but I do not agree that Hip-Hop is not suitable to study in schools and my reason is:

In Hip-Hop there is a lot of things rappers talk about in his songs that aren’t always glorified.

Some rappers have a real impact on people’s lives so they like to listen and talk the music.

“So boast about your Prada and Christian Dior, STILL security will follow you when your are in a store”.

The quotation is trying to point out that if your black and you have money people will think you got it in a bad way and they will still think that you will steal.

“When you’ve been to Brazil and stood in favela streets”

I think that it means when you go to a place where people own guns and they barely have enough food to feed there family then you will realise what you have is more than you need.

The key word in the quote is STOOD because it means that you have been able to witness the meaning behind the quote.

If a Chinese rapper was to say ‘die chink die’ everybody would be like “what is wrong with this guy”

I think this means when you listen to music and it says that a black person killed another black person you wouldn’t notice it but if a Chinese person were to do it then you would question why he was saying this.

This image makes me think of racism towards Native Americans saying that they shouldn’t or are not to be allowed in America

This picture is about slavery in America.

This picture is about the Brazilian slums and that the World Cup was hosted in Brazil and Brazil spend money on the World Cup an Brazil also got lots of money but there are still people dying of starvation.

Social issues are Issuses which influence a considerable number of individuals within a society.

In image 4 the people being affected are the poor Brazilian families that live in the slums and favelas.

How have the emcees we have studied used hip-hop as a medium to discuss social issues

•Hip-Hop artists that we’ve listened to are trying to prevent young people listening to music about killing, guns and money

•Mick Jenkins uses satire to criticise stereotypes about black people.

•Akala is trying to tell people that songs about killing or drugs aren’t good song they are wrong and reel because at least 70% of the rappers don’t do what they talk about.

Satire is when you use irony to make a point

Irony is when you point out a contradiction.

Mick Jenkins target to satire is stereotypical ideas of what it is to be black.

The word ‘hanging’ is significant here because there are two meaning to the word, one is to chill and one is to be lynched.

The image helps the satire in the song because he has the noose around his neck and he is with his friends so the two things combined put his point across.

Mick Jenkins uses satire in his song martyrs by making the word hanging into to meanings so it is much deeper.

The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis shining, like who’s on top of this.

The image presented by that line is that know matter where you are in the city you will see the moon shining.

The city is presented by saying in the song respiration is that it is a dark city where there are lots of criminals that hustle to get what the want.