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KRS One – “Rap is something you do, but Hip Hop is a way of life”

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Four Distinct Elements:• Breaking (physical)B-boying, or breaking, also called

breakdancing is a style of street dance

Consists of four kinds of movement: toprock, down rock, power moves and freezes

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• Rap (oral)Emceeing/Mcing, spitting (bars) or

rhyming

Spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics

Components:“content”, “flow” (rhythm and rhyme” and “delivery”

• Turntablism/DJing (aural)Musical instrument

Manipulating sounds and creating music using direct-drive turntables and a DJ mixer

Beat mixing/matching, scratching and beat juggling

• Graffiti (visual)Writing or drawings that have been

scribbled, scratched, or sprayed on a wall or other surface in a public place

Art, marking territory or showing their gang activity

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Language• Hip-Hop: “Hip” African American English 1898, meaning “current” or “in the now”.

“Hop” for the hopping movement.

Rah rah like a dungeon dragon

-Izzle/-izzy H to the Izzo Boom bap

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Fashion

• Clothing was very influential and a big part of hip hop’s social and cultural impact

• From baggy shirts, jeans and jerseys to designers• Brands such as Ralph Lauren, Clavin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger all gained an

economic boost• This changed hip hop as it redefined masculinity and showed a decrease in

homophobia• Artists would express their masculinity through violence and intimidating and

this shifted to flaunting their wealth and entrepreneurship. This led to an emergence of rapper branding. E.g, A$AP, Kanye, Run DMC, Wu-tang, Odd Future etc.

• Artists became trend setters and trend starters• It was open to the minority and majority group• Minority: Who could aspire to be like them and related to their struggle• Majority group: Who never had the full understanding of their struggle

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Fashion: Public EnemyYears Active: 1987-PresentKey Members: Chuck D, Flavor Flav, Terminator X, Professor Griff, The S1WElements of Style: Baseball caps, Coaches Jackets, Nikes, Track jackets, Huge clocks

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Fashion: Ruff RydersYears Active: 1998-2010Key Members: DMX, Jadakiss, Styles P, Sheek Louch, Drag-On, Swizz Beatz, Eve, Grizz Roc, FlashyElements of Style: Coordinating jerseys, Dogs, Timberlands, Workwear

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Fashion: Native TonguesYears Active: 1988-1993Key Members: A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Jungle Brothers, Leaders of the New School, Black Sheep, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Chi Ali, The Beatnuts, Brand NubianElements of Style: Floral prints, African patterns

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Fashion: N.W.AYears Active: 1986-1991Key Members: Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, MC Ren, Arabian Prince, DJ YellaElements of Style: Raiders snapbacks, Coaches jackets

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Fashion: Wu-Tang ClanYears Active: 1992-PresentKey Members: RZA, GZA, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, U-God, Masta Killa, Ol' Dirty Bastard, CappadonnaElements of Style: Polo Ralph Lauren, Wu-Wear, Clarks Wallabees, Baggy jeans, 6-inch Wheat Timberlands

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Fashion: Run DMC

Years Active: 1983-2002Key Members: Joseph "Run" Simmons, Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels, Jason "Jam-Master Jay" MElements of style: Adidas tracksuits, Adidas Superstars, Leather blazers, Kangol bucket hats, Fedoras, Thick gold chains

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Where did it derive from?South Bronx and Harlem in New York City among Black and Latino Youths during the 1970s.

Ghetto Brothers

DJ Kool Herc/Clive Campbell Afrika Bambaataa

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Branches of Beliefs:• Afrocentrism: Keeping in touch with their African/foreign origins because

they lived in a Eurocentric-dominated society. Teaching African history and culture.

• The Nation of Islam’s is a religious movement that aims to improve the spiritual, mental, social and economic condition of American Americans in the United States and all of humanity.

• The Five-Percent Nation/NGE/NOGE/the Nation of Gods and Earths/Five Percenter: Asiatic black people are the original people in Earth so they are the fathers (Gods) and mothers (Earths) of civilisation. They also believe in Allah is the key to understanding humankind’s relationship to the universe.

• Nuwaubian Nation: Black Muslim groups

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KRS ONE – Sound of Da Police

(Verse One)

Stand clear, Don man a-talk

You can’t stand where I stand, you can’t walk where I walk

Watch out, we run New York

Policeman come, we bust him out the park

I know this for a fact, you don’t like how I act

You claim I’m sellin’ crack but you be doin’ that

I’d rather say “see ya” cause I would never be ya

Be an officer, you wicked overseer

Ya hotshot, wanna get props and be a savior

First show a little respect, change your behaviour

Change your attitude, change your plan

There could never really be justice on stolen land

Are you really for peace and equality

Or when my car is hooked up, you know you wanna follow me

Your laws are minimal

Cause you wont even think about lookin’ at the real criminal

This has got to cease

Cause we be getting hyped to the sound of da police

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A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight(Verse one)

See, Jake be gettin illy when the sun get dark

He be coming out for heads but shit don’t let me start

There’s activities a-plenty in the nighttime

For the ghetto child it seem to be the right time

See, kids be getting stuck with jewels and fly gimmicks

Shorty see the action and then start to mimic

Running to the corner, the dice game is blazing

Looking at the loot, it seems so amazing

Puts the short down, to be exact one pound

He shakes the stones in his hand, then he lets it down

Scared money don’t make none

He threw a trick on the ace now he’s out son

Hits the local bodega to wolf down a gyro

Son is a midnight run like De Niro

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The Fugees – The Beast(Verse one)

[Lauryn]

Conflicts with night sticks

Illegal sales districts

Hand-picked lunatics, keep poli-trick-cians rich

Heretics push narcotics amidst its risks and frisks

Cool cliques throw bricks but seldom hit targets

Private-DIC sell hits, like porno-flicks do chicks

The 666 cut W.I.C like Newt Gingrich SUCKS DICK

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Queen Latifah – U.N.I.T.Y(Verse One)

Instinct leads me to another flow

Everytime I hear a brother call a girl a bitch or a hoe

Trying to make a sister feel low

You know all of that gots to go

Now everybody knows there’s exceptions to this rule

Now don’t be getting mad, when we playing, it’s cool

But don’t you be calling out my name

I bring wrath to those who disrespect me like a dame

That’s why I’m talking, one day I was walking down the block

I had my cutoff shorts on right cause it was crazy hot

I walked past these dudes when they passed me

One of ‘em felt my booty, he was nasty

I turned around red, somebody was catching the wrath

Then the little one said (Yeah me bitch) and laughed

Since he was with his boys he tried to break fly

Huh, I punched him dead in the eye and said “Who you calling a bitch?”

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Controversy

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Response: Gangsta Rap• Describing the reality of inner-city life• Saying things some people were afraid to say, e.g victims of police brutality• They didn’t want to appear as anti-American or anti-Government• Some of the rappers didn’t live these lives, they’re just giving awareness for others

who have• Emotions and perspective of marginalised people: black people in underprivileged

neighbourhoods• So they could no longer be in fear that they were not going to be silenced

• Now we have trap music.

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