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Reasons Hip Hop Music Lives

December 18th, 2011

Hip hop music isn’t whatsoever a new product or fresh starting point for anything in recent music. To put it accurately, hip hop culture earned its path on the world good in the late 70s and from there, hip hop knocked down every barrier in it’s way. Hip hop music is in every city and in every single nation, small and large.

Now with that being said, hip hop culture will live on assuming that it advances because hip hop has already demonstrated graveyard potential considering the way newer rap artists are apt to emulate the style of many of those hip hop greats well before them.

For instance, female rap singers typically had some kind of anchor inside the hip hop music business. Salt-n-Pepa, Queen Latifah and MC Lyte are only a number of the female hip hop performers that acquired footing in the old days, yet feminine achievements inside the hip hop arena seemed to arrive at a total halt until there was something special emerged. Even Foxy Brown and Da Brat controlled hip hop music for a while, although, the styles had not been developing into anything better and outside of employing a man entertainer, on stage backing them up.

For a bit, hardly any feminine rap singers acquired any air play up to the point of Nicki Minaj’s arrival who actually delivered the quality of craftsmanship to a new stage lyrically and in hip hop music videos.

Without the steady advancement of hip hop culture, it can cease to live by way of the regular swagger jacking of musicians that have have been here and long gone. One of the very best things about the late rapper Tupac Shakur aka 2Pac was that his rap lyrics burst through numerous domains, writing about thug life to heaven’s doors and in many cases politics while not holding back. At that moment, Shakur stood out from every hip hop star in the game. Pac became untouchable and generated one major avenue for the hip hop world to stay alive.

As a final point, hip hop culture isn’t merely a gimmick, nonetheless, it can very easily become gimmicky when the rap musicians forget about the skills part of their art form, and just write words that simply rhyme without any substance. Hip hop culture flourishes via evolution, yet it passes away through a lack of individuality.

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Common Hip Hop Stereotype Images

October 30th, 2011

One commonly disputed stereotype of hip-hop artists is their use and distribution of illegal drugs. In attempts to redefine this negative characteristic, many hip-hop artists have pointed at the majority social group as the facilitator of drug abuse.

In “Justify My Thug”, Jay-Z speaks directly to members of government, raising questions about who has made the availability and use of these drugs possible:

Mr. President, there’s drugs in our residence

Tell me what you want me to do, come break bread with us

Mr. Governor, I swear there’s a cover up

Every other corner there’s a liquor store – what is up?

In this example, the poet inquires as to why there is a liquor store in “every other corner” of his community.

In “I Want to Talk to You”, Nas uses the same approach to challenge the notion of drug distribution by asking his representatives what they would do in his situation:

Why y’all made it so hard, damn

People gotta go create their own job

Mr. Mayo,r imagine if this was your backyard

Mr. Governo,r imagine if it was your kids that starved

Imagine your kids gotta sling crack to survive

Here, the poet claims that the distribution of drugs is not only an effect of the poverty that exists in his environment, but also a means of survival.

In “Manifesto”, Talib Kweli actually accuses the government of being the body which allows drugs into the country:

Like the C.I.A. be bringin’ in crack cocaine bailin’ out of planes

With the George Bush connections, I push Reflection

Like I’m sellin’ izm, like a dealer buildin’ the system

Supply and the demand it’s all capitalism

People don’t sell crack cause they like to see blacks smoke

People sell crack cause they broke

In this example, the poet accuses the C.I.A. of flying drugs into the country, and again reiterates the point that it is a means of survival due to the “supply and demand” of a capitalist society.

In “Damn It Feels Good to be a Gangster”, the Geto Boys fully redefine the negative characteristic of drug distribution by accusing the President of being a drug dealer, and therefore, a gangster:

And now, a word from the President!

Damn it feels good to be a gangsta

Getting’ voted into the White House

Everything lookin’ good to the people of the world

But the Mafia family is my boss

So every now and then I owe a favor gettin’ down

Like lettin’ a big drug shipment through

And send ‘em to the poor community

So we can bust you know who

These examples show how hip-hop artists redefine the image of being drug dealers and users by again pointing to the majority class as the creator of the drug problem in this country.

Materialism

Hip-hop music is also seen by the majority class as a genre dominated by materialism. Again, artists point back to the majority class in an attempt to redefine this negative characteristic.

In “Respiration”, Black Star points to all the wealth surrounding urban areas, and how it absorbs the lower class in materialism, making them want parts of that wealth:

Where mercenaries is paid to trade hot stock tips

For profits, thirsty criminals take pockets

Hard knuckles on the second hands of workin’ class watches

Skyscrapers is colossus, the cost of living

Is preposterous, stay alive, you play or die, no options

Here, the poet talks about various materialistic aspects of the majority class, and how the lower class must “play or die” to “stay alive.”

In “All Falls Down”, Kanye West actually blames this materialism on American society:

It seems we living the American dream

But the people highest up got the lowest self esteem

The prettiest people do the ugliest things

For the road to riches and diamond rings

In this example, the poet blames the “American dream” for materialism, saying it causes people to “do the ugliest things” for “riches and diamond rings.”

In “Los Angeles Times”, Xzibit also blames this materialism on the majority class, claiming that is what the youth are taught coming up in urban environments:

Welcome to L.A.

Where you can see the whole city burning

Cause the cops got Uzis and the dealers keep serving

And your kids ain’t learning it, except this

Sex power and wealth, forget everything else

Here, the poet expresses his belief that certain aspects of materialism, including “power and wealth” are taught to children through occurrences in society.

These are examples how hip-hop artists redefine the negative characteristic of being materialistic by showing examples of how this materialism is prevalent in the majority class, and often created within that class.

Hip-hop artists have used their lyrics and poetry to influence the rejection and reconstruction of the gangster identity that plagues their social class. This is accomplished through the redefining of negative characteristics assigned by the majority class. In most cases, these redefinitions include pointing to the majority class as the real holders of these negative characteristics. The redefining of these “gangster-like” images through hip-hop lyrics helps to reconstruct the gangster identity by questioning “gangster-like” behaviors and which social class actually has these behaviors. So the question presented is: Who exactly are the gangsters?

Works Cited / Discography

2 Pac. 2Pacalypse Now. Jive Records, 1991.

Black Star. Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star. Rawkus Records, 1998.

Coates, Jennifer. Women, Men and Language. Longman Publishing, New York: 1993.

Dr. Dre. The Chronic 2001. Interscope Records, 1999.

Eminem. The Marshall Mathers LP. Interscope Records, 2000.

Geto Boys. Uncut Dope LP. Interscope Records, 1999.

Haugen, Jason. “‘Unladylike Divas’: Language, Gender and Female Gangster Rappers.” Popular Music and Society: December, 2003.

Jay Z. The Black Album. Def Jam, 2003.

Kanye West. College Dropout. Roc-A-Fella Records, 2004.

Nas. I Am. Sony Records, 1999.

Rakim. Don’t Sweat the Technique. MCA Records, 1992.

Rawkus Records. Lyricist Lounge Volume 1. Priority Records, 1999.

Slaughter, Peter. “Attack on Rap Music.” Barutiwa Weekly News. June 14, 1997.

Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek. Train of Thought. Rawkus Records, 2000.

Talib Kweli. Quality. Rawkus Records, 2003.

The Roots. Phrenology. MCA Records, 2002.

Whaley, Angela. “Hip Hop is Not for Sale.” Colorado State University’s Talking Back: Volume 3, Issue 1.

Xzibit. 40 Days and 40 Nights. Loud Records, 1998.

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Sorting Out Your Music Making Skills

August 24th, 2011

If you've been making beats for some time, you will be conscious that there are occasions when your energy and creativity levels are high, while there are more instances when it’s really difficult to keep yourself galvanized to create good work.

Whenever things are going well, it can be straightforward to be sure that you're making interesting beats. When things don’t appear to be going well, the entire thing can regularly go from bad to badder, and will probably continue to do so.

If you are not feeling too creative, it can be a brilliant idea to take a break, if you are able to. Sometimes, it will also help to take a little time out, away from the beat making software. This could permit your brain to recharge. If you come at things fresh, you could find that ideas start flowing again.

Actually intense work, like mixing down a very important track, can have a massive effect on your capability to write new material. If you are having a lot of difficulty with this, it could be worth pondering the way in which you structure your producing and writing work. As an example, if you find mixing drains you, try and prepare things so you do it in a managed block, away from your writing time.

It can also help you to get your talents flowing again, if you try something different. Experimenting, without expecting something to come of it, often provides decent results, as well as a method to stretch the brain in a new direction. Testing different genres or styles can help you with your main beat writing work, almost all of the time.

Remember there will be masses of instances when you will have tops of energy and creativity. Try to be sure you get the most from those periods, without burning yourself out. You can attempt to work out when you tend to be at your best, but do not build up too many expectancies, as to when you will be at your top. Too much build up can kill your creativeness as a beat maker.

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My Beats For Sale Online Review

October 24th, 2010

Sitting in front of my computer, I decided to switch off my MP3 player and just browsed the net for new beat music to add to my playlist. Why this instrumental beat music? Because I love the way it makes my body move.

I am not a music guru and I don’t really know too much about beat music but I know what good music is when I hear it. Beat music is actually a genre that can be tracked back to the early 60′s. Anyway, I’m so excited that I found a new website that features new and fresh instrumental beats and the music is streaming fast too as I listen. Really exciting. There are so many beats to choose from so I feel like a kid lost in a candy store and getting overwhelmed by so many beats to try on! My favorite beats at the moment are Slow and Sad and also A Feeling of Winning.

Alright, I think that its about time I let you know about the site: its call Jee Juh. This is a company that came out of California and has been around since early 2006. The two main producers formed the website and are still making beats to this day. They are both music lovers as well and have a passion for digital recording and websites. Jee Juh Productions was created to offer artists and multimedia developers a helping hand in their musical endeavors.

I was getting so inspired I decided to get a couple beats for sale. Its actually quite easy to order the music from this website. All it takes is a simple three step process and then you are done. Once you have selected the check boxes (next to the prices) for the beats you want to buy, you click the “Buy Now” button at the top right of the player. This will take you to a secure PayPal checkout page where you can choose your form of payment. Once your payment is complete, you will see a link to instantly access your download page where you can download all of your audio files. This process was so easy, no wonder they have so many featured artists and returning visitors. This reminds me of another cool feature: Once you have completed a song with a Jee Juh beat, you can then submit the song back to them and become a featured artist on their main site. Many artists seem to do this and then get a lot exposure for their music.

The time really passes fast when you are listening to the streaming music on this website. I think that I spent around 3 hours listing to the list of beats and instrumentals… and I didn’t even get half way through. I will have to come back again some time and check them out.

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Different Styles Of Rap And Hip Hop Beats

October 24th, 2010

Here are some of the most popular styles of hip hop and rap beats today.

Bounce:

This music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music, taking off in the early 1990s, but dating back to 1980s. It is characterized by call and response party chants and dance call-outs typically sung over the “Triggaman” (from the song “Drag Rap” by the Showboys) and/or “Brown Beat” samples. Nearly every second of the 1986 single “Drag Rap” has made its way into bounce jams: its opening chromatic tics, the immediately identifiable “Drag Rap” sample, the shouting out of “break” (emulated throughout OutKast’s “Stankonia”), the whistling breakdown, the vocoded “drag rap” vocals, and the minimal drum machine verse. Popular bounce artists include Juvenile and Mannie Fresh.

Hyphy Beat:

Hyphy is a type of music and lifestyle that is associated with San Fran and Bay area rappers. This area has a massive hip hop culture and cult following to the beats. The “Hyphy” movement, which originated in the Bay Area of California, or better known as the “Yay Area,” has contributed considerably to the genre of rap music, as well as hip-hop style dancing. Rap artists, such as e40, Too $hort, Turftalk, Keak da Sneak and Mistah Fab have elevated “hyphy” music to a new level. In this article, we will discuss how to “go stupid, dumb and hyphy.”

Funk Beats:

G-funk (Gangsta-funk or Ghetto-funk) is a type of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s. G-funk (largely derived from slowing the tempo down of funk music) incorporates multi-layered and melodic synthesizers, slow hypnotic grooves, a deep bass, background female vocals, the extensive sampling of P-funk tunes, and a high portamento sine wave keyboard lead-a feature that became the genre’s notable trademark. Additionally, unlike other rap acts at the time that sampled heavily, G-funk often utilized only one or two samples per song. G-funk became the premier subgenre of mainstream hip hop for a span of nearly four years (from the release of Dr. Dre’s landmark debut, The Chronic, in 1992, to the collapse of the Los Angeles-based label, Death Row Records, in 1996).

Crunk Beat:

The term Crunk Beats originated from Memphis, US and became popular in the late 90′s when Three 6 Mafia’s DJ Paul and Juicy J pioneered cruck music. Since the late 90s’, Cruck Beats started catching up and became more and more popular and by 2009 several cruck hits reached Top40 in the US. A typical crunk song uses 4 bars of music generated by electronic drums and synthesizers that repeat throughout the song, but sometimes includes a break towards the end of the song. Many of the drum machines and rhythms they produce were previously well known in specialty genres of dance music.

Miami Bass Rap Beats:

Miami bass (also known as booty music) is a type of hip hop music that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s, known for applying the Roland TR-808 sustained kick drum, slightly higher dance tempos, and occasionally sexually explicit lyrical content. It is also characterized as using rhythms with a “stop start flavor” and “hissy” cymbals. Vocoders and what Maggotron referred to as the “thrombic boomulator” were used to produce the distinctive low-pitched and distorted Miani Bass style vocals. Miami Bass song sample: Me So Horny, by 2 Live Crew.

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Rap Instrumentals And Where To Get These

August 6th, 2010

You will find many of rappers online now days. Most of them exists on battle boards and hip hop domains so as to assist you to dispatch your tunes. However something upon alot of rappers are searching for and sometimes are not capable of finding are rap instrumentals. Rap instrumentals serves as the on-back music that you listen to on a rap song.

Several musicians make use of rap instrumentals from songs that are previously given away by popular artists then record there rhymes over the beat. Such forms of soundtrack are mostly used for mix tapes or battles however when it comes to creating an album, a rapper will want an inspired beat not just a rap instrumental which have been consumed in the past.

Fortunately there are a few sensible makers on-line have understood the necessity for rap instrumentals and provide a help for rappers to purchase those on-line. With the help of purchasing on-line you have the ability to get original rap instrumentals which not lots of people have heard previously. That may offer your album a more creative sound. You won’t ought to use rough beats anymore and you may commence to build a name of your own. Just have a look to the beats and if you want those you should purchase these then down load the beats and use them.

You’ll locate different beats and dissimilar prices over the internet as well. One can find lot of distinctive sites that you can order rap instrumentals from. Some are rated awfully high-priced and many are rated very affordable.

The big matter about the purchase price is generally whether you buy the unique right or a regular license. Regularly you will have an opportunity for one or the other. An exclusive certificate will allow you to perform anything you want to accomplish having the beat. You originally bear total ownership of the beat which enable it to apply it in any way you require.

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Hip Hop Beat Sites Can Be Deceptive

July 19th, 2010

For those who are fresh to the hip-hop genre of the music industry, there is so much added information available than ever in the past. Finding useful knowledge in order to begin your career as a hip hop artist or even a beat master, can be hard if you have no plan where to begin. Hopefully you will find this article informative and advantageous when searching for, purchasing and making hip hop beats.

Even if you are not brand new to the hip-hop profession, you could discover that the Internet has become overwhelming for you in order to find and obtain an medley of hip-hop beats that you take. There are many diverse websites that host a mixture of beats at an array of cost depending on what you are searching for. Be sure to make your choice cautiously and investigate every website since it is a ?Buyer Beware? marketplace out there in the land of cyber-space.

There are many suggestions and instructions to take into consideration when looking at making a purchase of hip-hop beats off the Internet. With an great mixture of differentiating or non-exclusive, or even the possibility of renting beats, one can be baffled with all of the choices accessible. With lower-priced non-exclusive beats, you can be guaranteed that they have been bought before and been used a lot. Exclusive beats are priced extremely elevated due to their unique nature. You furthermore could discover you can rent a hip-hop beat for a given interval of time or you may even have the option to pay for the beat completely at a later time.

Explore all the websites that offer hip-hop beats. There are many Internet sites that will offer low-cost registration in order to have full access to their store of beats, while others will control selected sample beats for free to browse before deciding to buy a hip hop beat. Research the genres of hip-hop incorporated on these websites to be assured that they are not catering to a particular type of hip hop but have a wide array of styles offered. You do not want to be restricted by a particular type of genre of hip-hop, but are able to keep all branches open for creativity.

Quality of the merchandise is constantly crucial when searching for hip-hop beats to enjoy. Be selective and pick a website that allows you to download the beats instead of just streaming them so you can format them and use them in other sources in addition to your hard drive. This way you can decipher if they are equalized correctly and the sound caliber is the same as to what you heard when you chose that beat online.

There is constantly a interest for copyright infringement and licensing restrictions when trying to find hip-hop beats for your own private use. Make sure that you research the website to determine that the beats they are making available are royalty-free. You do not want to have to end up paying someone else for a beat that you use. Any legitimate website will maintain details listed straight on their main or legal pages stating that they are royalty-free and there are no copyright infringement legalities to worry about.

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Mix Your Own Instrumental Beats: Shocking Revelation Of Secret Resource Online

July 17th, 2010

For those who are up-to-the-minute to the hip-hop genre of the music industry, there is so much additional information available than ever in the past. Finding useful knowledge in order to begin your career as a hip hop artist or even a beat master, can be grueling if you have no plan where to begin. Hopefully you will find this article informative and effective when searching for, purchasing and making hip hop beats.

Even if you are not brand new to the hip-hop profession, you could discover that the Internet has become overwhelming for you in order to find and obtain an selection of hip-hop beats that you take. There are many diverse websites that host a mixture of beats at an array of cost depending on what you are searching for. Be sure to make your choice cautiously and investigate every website since it is a ?Buyer Beware? marketplace out there in the land of cyber-space.

There are many suggestions and instructions to take into consideration when looking at making a purchase of hip-hop beats off the Internet. With an huge mixture of differentiating or non-exclusive, or even the possibility of renting beats, one can be baffled with all of the choices accessible. With lower-priced non-exclusive beats, you can be guaranteed that they have been bought before and been used a lot. Exclusive beats are priced extremely elevated due to their unique nature. You furthermore could discover you can rent a hip-hop beat for a given interval of time or you may even have the option to pay for the beat completely at a later time.

Investigate all the websites that offer hip-hop beats. There are many Internet sites that will offer low-cost registration in order to have full access to their store of beats, while others will control selected sample beats for free to browse before deciding to buy a hip hop beat. Research the genres of hip-hop incorporated on these websites to be assured that they are not catering to a particular type of hip hop but have a wide array of styles offered. You do not want to be restricted by a particular type of genre of hip-hop, but are able to keep all branches open for creativity.

Quality of the outcome is constantly crucial when searching for hip-hop beats to enjoy. Be selective and pick a website that allows you to download the beats instead of just streaming them so you can format them and use them in other sources in addition to your laptop. This way you can know if they are equalized accurately and the sound condition is the same as to what you heard when you chose that beat online.

There is constantly a interest for copyright infringement and licensing restrictions when trying to find hip-hop beats for your own special use. Make sure that you research the website to determine that the beats they are making available are royalty-free. You do not want to have to end up paying someone else for a beat that you use. Any accredited website will maintain details listed straight on their main or legal pages stating that they are royalty-free and there are no copyright infringement legalities to worry about.

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The Most Effective Song Download Sites

June 19th, 2010

There are numerous good song download sites in the internet and you might just want to check them out. And if you are a music-lover, then this is certainly something that you would want to learn more about. However, you also need to realize that there are still a lot of things that you will have to consider because not all of these portals are that effective. If you want to be certain that you will avail a good service, then you have to be cautious when picking a portal.

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Using Unlimited Music Download Sites

May 20th, 2010

It is a good idea if you are looking for some of the best unlimited music download sites. This way, you will be able to hear some of your favorite songs day in and day out. However, there is need for you to understand that bit is very important for you to know the kinds of tools that you are going to use. This way, you are assured that you are going to get the best service there is and get your favorite songs with great efficiency.

But in order for you to do so, it is very important fore you to see to it that you are going to avoid using those portals that are very dangerous. This is something that you should always remember if you are looking for unlimited music download sites. You have to avoid using unsafe tools because the can be very dangerous to your OS and player.

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