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Dom Worm's List: Unit 3 Paper

    • The varied effects of global and urban political/economic restructuring created a basis for a new cultural form to emerge in the 1970s – hip-hop
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      • Introduction/ in the beginning when Hip Hop was originated.  

    • It argues that globalization, racism, and the suppression of progressive/radical social movements have left urban Black communities socially stigmatized, and economically isolated

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    • Critics of hip hop emphasize the negative impact hustler or gangster themed music may have on urban yout
    • Most cyberbullying occurs during adolescence and in contexts where there is less supervision

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    • "The hip-hop culture is just like electricity, it can be used negatively or positively. The same electric current that lights up your house can also electrocute you. It is the misuse of hip-hop culture to attack our women and promote violence. We must encourage the proper use of hip-hop culture. We are all influenced by the hip-hop generation." ("Is hip-hop culture," 2000)
      • metaphor for hip hop and how it influences the youth

    • ome of these accusations include how hip-hop influences the youth to become more misogynistic towards women by constantly having explicit content, such as racist and sexist lyrics in their music

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    • Behind every song there is a message being transmitted from the artist to the audience.
    • The core narratives of gangsta rap are extremely troubling in their glamorization of violence, material consumption, misogyny, and sexual transgression”

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    • Contemporary analysis of American popular culture finds today's Hip-Hop artists, who capitalize on stereotypic images, such as the scowling ghetto “gangsta,” the mack daddy playa-pimp, and the drugged-out “blunt” smoker, are indeed modern-day minstrels who exploit industry created images of sex, violence, and drugs
      • 2. Introduction/ definition of Hip Hop

    • ost of the perception of Hip-Hop as a violent industry and culture can be linked to the fact that many Hip-Hop artists come from the impoverished and highly disadvantaged neighborhoods of America's inner cities, where violent crime, drug use, poor education, unemployment and lack of proper healthcare are prevalen

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    How it influences youth's language

    • It affects how they dress, talk, what products they purchase and helps shape their identites
    • ip hops affects can be not only been seen in the clothing we wear today but also in the language we use and its meaning.

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    main point basically what is highlighted

    • Hearing these words of violence, hearing this total filth with absolutely no social redeeming value over and over, everyday, and then idolizing these rap gods who promote violent actions just might be enough to turn a poverty stricken, low self esteemed youth, who is searching for an identity in a species that thrives on individualism, to possess a gun.
    • This troubled youth could easily be sucked into the violent world that we call rap music.

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    • Hip-Hop superstar Eminem raps chillingly realistic scenes of graphic violence but says fans should not take it seriousl
    • The media and the public should not blame the music industry for the jobs that parents are not fulfilling
      • counteract

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    • The media controls what society knows about the world and it is the media's selections of what to show that leaves the world ignorant to everything else out there.
    • Although critics of rap music and the Hip Hop culture seemed to be fixated on the messages of sex, violence, and harsh language, this genre offers us a paradigm of what can be.

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    • Nigga, my gun go off You see the barrell turnin', you feel the hollows burnin' Nigga, now you learnin', nigga, my gun go off Call it attempted murder, nigga, I'm tryin’ to merk you When I come back bustin', nigga, my gun go off
    • Nigga, my gun go off You see the barrell turnin', you feel the hollows burnin' Nigga, now you learnin', nigga, my gun go off Call it attempted murder, nigga, I'm tryin’ to merk you When I come back bustin', nigga, my gun go off
    • I've been smokin', I've been drinkin'
       I don't know what I was thinkin'
       I've been high all weekend
       Drunk as fuck but still tweakin'
    • Yeah, the world is yours, I was once that little boy Terrified of the world, now I'm on a world tour I will give up everything even start a world war For these ghetto girls and boys, I'm rappin' 'round the world for
    • So no matter what you been through, no matter what you into No matter what you see when you look outside your window Brown grass or green grass, picket fence or barbed wire Never ever put them down, you just lift your arms higher
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