In November 2014, a local San Diego man named Brandon Duncan (also known as Tiny Doo) was incarcerated on the basis that his rap music promotes gang violence in San Diego. According to ABC and the video by CNN News, he was prosecuted for profiting in relation to a gang
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http://www.thefader.com/2016/07/15/asap-rocky-black-lives-matter-police-violence-twitter This article presents artist A$AP Rocky’s response to recirculation of his 2015 interview with Time Out. The public seems to be upset with his lack of action involving police brutality of African Americans. Not every black person needs to speak out on behalf of the black community in these
Since the rise of NWA (Niggas with Attitude) in the late 1980’s and 1990’s gangster rap is a very popular genre of rap that seems to dominate the scene. Today we are entering our third generation of gangster rap that seems to be dominated by artist Kendrick Lamar. NWA (first
Americans have a difficult time dealing with death. Death is the unknown; it is beyond human comprehension and people often fear what they do not understand. In the literary work “Rap as Wrap and Rapture,” author James W. Perkinson presents several examples in American society where our fear and denial
N.W.A is known by most as the original west coast rap group. Hailing from south central, they were the toughest guys making the most in your face music about their day to day lives. It was something we had never seen before, and it was cool. With lyrics like “see,
Ice Cube, now a well-known actor and former member of highly successful rap group N.W.A, created a song in 2008 called “Gangsta Rap Made Me Do It.” Just within the first few seconds, the direction of the music video and song is set. The public reflection of rap is not
In the aftermath of the Meek Mill and Drake feud, I found the need to explore the part of rap that deals with the most up-front, personal, and confrontational lyrics. This subgenre is known as the diss track. Celebrities often get into disagreements or arguments (aka beef). Rappers have a
During the filming of a commercial for Straight Outta Compton, the biopic focused on the seminal rap group NWA’s rise to success and acclaim in the face of adversity, Suge Knight (a successful star in the music industry) allegedly ran down in his car two of the men attached to
What happens when you combine the sadistic inner thoughts of slasher filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock and Wes Craven with the hard bassline beats of rap? A subgenre of hip-hop with a cult-like following that began in the 1990s called “horrorcore”. Horrorcore directly preceded gangster rap in terms of chronological time,
In Rick Ross’ lyrics in the song You Don’t Even Know It, he mentions drugging and raping a woman. Even though this caused a huge scandal and had a few repercussions for Rick Ross, there was no real debate or change in how rappers rap about women. This form of