Introduction

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