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...Snoop Dogg provide us with another good example. After seeing their music videos and hearing them talk about their multitude of “bitches,” it is no wonder that violence against women continues to be one of the biggest contributors to domestic violence. Gangsta rap is one of the most popular forms of hip-hop today. Songs in this specific genre are nothing but a negative externality on society’s well-being and improvement. Certainly, there are a few outlier groups that contain positive and proactive messages. However, these outliers tend...
...Those props did not pay for themselves. There is money in the underground, and “20/20,” the latest from Rakaa, Evidence, and DJ Babu, is a product of a group that wants (and has) the money it knows it should push away. Evidence still raps about wack MCs on the radio (“The game’s fucked a thousand sound-alikes it’s sad”), and he still raps about how he shuns a mainstream sound (“I don’t fuck with that industry flow?...
...brownish-orange dust. This combination of aggressive music and parched earth casts an overall red tone to the scene. In contrast, the metropolitan and suburban shots adopt cool blues, silvers and greens to project the diametrically different standards of living. The hard music, provided by South African rap artist Zola, exemplifies Tsotsi’s originally hard-edged persona. However, after he steals the car and begins to bond with the child, the belligerent rap is replaced by composer Mark Kilian’s soothing tribal music. The film’s amateur cast delivers amazingly deep performances...
...museum”—in the characteristically bombastic words of “Cop Killer” rapper Ice-T—to have some knowledge dropped on their inquiring domes. Grandmaster Flash, the Smithsonian needs you. The Smithsonian’s recent request for rap artifacts to be featured in their upcoming exhibit, “Hip Hop Won’t Stop: The Beats, the Rhymes, the Life,” has been perceived both as a threat to the legitimacy of a once-underground movement, and as a victory for African-American culture. Those skeptical...
...begin, the victory of Three 6 Mafia in the category of Best Song could fairly be viewed as open mockery of Black America. “It’s Hard out Here for a Pimp” is the explicit and offensive rap song brought to us courtesy of “Hustle and Flow”—a movie that seeks to inspire our sympathy for Terrence Howard’s character by showing us just how hard it really is to exploit and abuse women. Its win on Sunday provides a clear example of mainstream...