Hip Hop – More Than Music, a Lifestyle
Jul 24th, 2010 by admin
Hip hop is a cultural movement which originated from New York in the 1970s. Rapping, DJing, breakdancing and graffiti art are considered the main components of hip hop culture. Hip-hop music style consists of a rhytmic style of speaking (rap) over backing beats which are played by a DJ. Although rap is often confused with hip hop, it is not quite the same thing. Rapping is a vocal style which implies a performer speaking rhythmically to a beat and it is usually a component of hip-hop. Hip hop music was inspired from funk or disco songs, from which it borrowed the beats. Since 1979, it has entered the American mainstream and became a popular genre. In 1990s, a form called “gangsta rap” evolved. Today, hip-hop is in vogue not only in the USA, but also in the entire world.
The rise of hip hop was not arbitrary. It happened in the 1970s, when people were tired of dance and rock and needed a change. But that was not the only reason. There were also some social and political causes. Hip-hop’s popularity grew in the same time with the power of black and Latino gangs. Hip hop became a protest against middle-class white community from the poor black community living in “ghettos”. The lyrics spoke about the reality in ghettos which wasn’t exactly peachy. Consequently, hip-hopers used their music to express their feelings and frustrations. Of course, what begun as a poor class’s protest transformed into a million dollars industry, but that is another story.
Today, hip hop is listened to not only by Afro Americans, but also by white people. In fact, many successful hip hopers are white, an example being the notorious rapper Eminem. Hip-hop fans have their own way of dressing (with large clothes usually, baggie pants, bandanas, tattoos, sportswear and gold or platinum chains) and speaking. Consequently, we can say that hip-hop is more than just music and has turned into a life style for many. However, given the popularity of rap music, there are very many artists and the competition between them is fierce. The question is how can a young artist, at the beginning of his career, become popular and make himself a name? How can he obtain the attention of a producer who can help him to get into show business? The first step would be to record a hip hop mixtape and send it to several important music studios. The problem is that these studios receive thousands of records everyday. Many young artists, charmed by the mirage of easy success and fame, knock at the doors of music studios with a hip hop mixtape in their hands.
What every aspiring hip hoper must know is that there are web sites where you can post your songs in order for thousands of interested listeners to hear them. If you are lucky, you will receive an offer from one of the music studios and get to record your first album. The most important thing is to believe in your talent and not to give up easily. Send your hip hop mixtape to all the producers that you have heard of. Even if you don’t get any feedback at first, don’t lose hope. If you are talented, your hip hop mixtape will eventually be listened to by someone who realizes your potential. The road to success is not as easy as it may seem; it requires hard work, talent and maybe a bit of good luck, but in the end it will be all worth it.
Ken Wilson
http://www.articlesbase.com/music-articles/hip-hop-more-than-music-a-lifestyle-292166.html
Youd think a Miss America swimsuit winner would feel completely confident about her body, right? Not always! So I decided to write the book I wish Id had as a teen and in college an honest, funny, practical, medically accurate, totally reassuring guide to how womens bodies actually look, smell, feel, behave, and change. Alongside real-deal photographs of women just like you and me (no airbrushing, no supermodels, no kidding) youll find medical pictures of things you need to be able to recognize, true confessions by yours truly, and the encouragement you need to appreciate the uniqueness, strength, and beauty of your body.
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Who Thinks Emo is a Lifestyle Rather Than a Music Genre?
I want to know more about emo. I think parts of what kids are doing who are "emo" are very cool and very 60s. It may even be leading to a revolution of positive change for our world!
I think it’s a lifestyle….Sanjaya is a typical "emo" as is Elton John.
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Emo or ELMO?
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Emo stands for emotional. How are emotional people positively changing the world?
And when I hear "emo" I think of a person, not music.
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Seeping sopping dripping brain damaged rumplestiltkins… Pretentious pedantic pedasterical analog nutcases…
Crying weeping seeping sucking sissies…..
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emo, ha, more like DORKO!
I’m not trying to be cruel or anything, but how do you think that being sad all the time, dyeing your hair black and red, and injuring yourself is a force of positive change in society? Please understand that I’m not saying anything bad about emo people (in fact, my best friend is emo), but I think that it is just another little bit of pop culture that will last until about 2,010, when it will change into something else that is similair but not exactly the same (like hippies and disco people), then by 2,020, it will have vanished almost completely.
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If you ask me, everything has multiple faucets.
There’s emo music, emo clothing, emo lifestyle, etc.
There’s also good parts to emo and bad parts to emo. No, I don’t think cutting yourself will lead to social revolution, but the concept of it is awesome – people have taken it too far and to too many extremes. It’s like furry – three or four bad apples pretty much ruined everything and anything for the rest of us.
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I think that it’s both a lifestyle and a music genre…however, i don’t know if it will bring about ‘positive change for our world.’ some of the angst-driven mentality of the emo lifestyle seems rather depressive and self-indulgent. People should try to demonstrate a more forward-thinking approach to life, which will encourage positive changes in society.
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emo people having a POSITIVE change? psssshhhh! yeah right. people who say they are emo are just show offs and posers. emo people have a negative reflection on us.
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Emo is a way of life. It’s how you see the world. Most people think it’s an emotional death obsession. Not all emo are death obsessed. I am emo, and I have a different philosophy. I believe that death is something that comes to everyone whether we like it or not. We ae all technicall dying, its just the pint of when we die that is the question. But enough about philosophy, music and clothes. Music like My Chemical Romance (my fave band ever!), Hawthorne heights, AFI, Fall Out Boy, 30 Seconds To Mars etc etc etc etc… Clothes are easy. Anything dark but also stylish. I liekt o wear a lot of black mixed with a little pink. I know I know, pink is like the opposite of emo but the mixture of the colors is so kick a** awesome! I wear band t-shirts and black jeans or regular jeans. And lets the get the cutting thing straight. NOT ALL EMOS CUT! I don’t cut, I have once when I was really sad and I was like "why the hell am I hurting myself? I will just listen to music". Another thing is not all emos are gay or di. Most aren’t actually. I am straight and so are all my emo friends.
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