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In the global popularity scene, hip hop now rules, and is a dominant cultural form in many parts of the world. Rap gives voice to every culture that produces and circulates it, not just African-Americans. As a new force, rap levels the playing field, opening doors to new cultural players, and ripens for new corporate snakes to pounce on. Circulating ideas, images, sound, and style, it is becoming central to the new multimedia global culture and is an expression of a multicultural world with no borders and limits.

Adversity sometimes gives rise to greatness. The day-in, day-out struggle of scratching an existence out of the hood can instill in one an aspiration to conquer the highest peaks. America's most poverty-stricken slums and crime-ridden inner cities have birthed some of the greatest visionary talent the music industry has ever seen. Those who struggle to make it out seldom succeed, but the ones with the will to do so possess a certain spark that drives them to unimaginable heights.

As the lead guitarist of the band ¨Dragon Force”, he deserves credit for his major success. By following his dreams, he presently stands out for as an amazing guitarist, with much practice you can accomplish almost anything.

Right now, Hip Hop began to move from what it was planned for, to being a shallow deals trick. Hip Hop was, at its initiation, a methods for African Americans recount their unaltered story. Towards the mid-'90s although, the class started to be much a greater number of offers than it was at any point was some time recently. Artists, for example, Nas for instance, started to stray from their honest to goodness and genuine selves to begin making music about drugs, brutality, and sex since that was what pushed their deals to the corporate level. With this

Mr. Donald Ervin is Retied manager and music promoter at the Concord music hall center. He and his Lovely wife Evelyn Ervin now live in Elgin after living on the south side of Chicago for over thirty years. He and his wife have one kid named Edwin, who is an in the music line. I chose Mr. Ervin to be my interviewee for two causes, one Bing that I needed someone who was, I guess someone older because typically all the masses I have met in this assignment have been young pupils. Moreover, I needed a different perspective from someone of a different age. And equally for my second reason I picked Mr. Ervin, is because of the matters Mr. Ervin has attained over period of time. Being capable of working with some of the today's and past hip-hop hitters; such as Taylor the Creator, Kanye West, Q-Tip, Eric B. & Rakim, etc. is a huge asset to my research on trap culture.

Sean "Puffy" Combs has established himself as one of the biggest names in hip-hop (Heal). Combs a Harlem native whose father was killed when he was only 3 years old, rose from the mean streets to the top of the music business (AP wire, March 18). "It is true that he started from scratch, and I don't think that because he was arrested, people will stop buying his albums (AP wire, March 18). Before pursuing his career as a vocalist, Combs was a business-minded Howard University student and an intern at Andre Harrell's Uptown Records. Combs soon became the A&R representative for Uptown. He then began producing for soon to be mega-stars Mary J. Blige, Heavy D., and Jodeci to name a few. After being let go

Ervin: Working at concord music hall over the years, I done see most of the today's big Trap Dj, and I got to say most are white young adults who are heavily influenced by black music or culture. But as heavily influenced they are they seem to forget why black people were doing trap in the first place, instead today's trap DJs just took a giant leap into the glamourous lifestyle lucky few Black men accused over the years. I just wish today youth to understand trap was never meant to be about making selling drugs and shooting people, but rather it was meant to be born into that lifestyle with no choice and trying to survive or die to

Do you know who the Migos are? While there are better rappers from Atlanta, they keep Atlanta on the map do to their rapping because they influence on a lot of people, they made up their own flow, and because their style is unique. Atlanta produced a lot off hot rappers including Gucci Mane, Lil Yatchy, Rich Homie Quan, and Young Thug. A lot of these rappers influences many of people to do good and bad things and these influences come from the lyrics and also the artist. But most influential group of artist coming out of Atlanta Georgia is the Migos. “No rapper in the current moment has a more emulated flow” (David). Each one of the rappers in Migos has an impact on how people view and listen to music. “But part of the reason Migos has become

If I were to be in the DJ booth thinking about how I messed up the same song transition last night, chances are that I’m going to overthink it and mess up again. Even worse, before I even started booking shows, many of the venues wouldn’t let me play because they didn’t think I was good enough. Using the power of endurance I kept trying and trying and finally they saw how strong my perseverance was and started booking me for shows. The most important thing is to endure by enduring: understanding the difficulties, enduring the hardships, predicting the risks, and tolerating the abuse, all ensure fame and success for such a person. What makes one truly great is knowing how to tolerate the intolerable and how to endure the unendurable. “Everyone knows how to thrive in the good times. It is the trying times that separate the one who has substance from the one who merely possesses the image” (Chu 141).

Josiah Wedgwood, Britain innovator and pottery entrepreneur was born in (1730), he was called the world’s greatest innovator. He was the inventor of modern marketing, dedicated his life to study pottery until became recognized at every pottery shop in England, and the only supplier of pottery to Britain Royal family. His story starts when he was infected with smallpox at a young age left him with weakened leg, other researchers mentioned that his leg was amputated. As a result, he was unable to continue with his pottery legacy; instead he decided to continue in pottery designing. He was the first to color and draw on pottery that gives it a unique character attracting so many shops to buy his products. He left a legacy behind him when he introduced

The origins of hip hop started in the late 70’s as a pastime that brought all the impoverished people of the projects together to have fun through. But decades later in the 90’s, people began to rap about many subjects ranging from the crack epidemic, hard life in the ghetto, or just having fun, but the underlying motive of rappers in this era was to reflect on their rough lifestyle through clever lyrics. The motive wasn’t for money, but recognition for their unique wordplay among the rap community. However, that all changed when record companies saw a financial opportunity in rappers, and rappers saw a financial opportunity through music. Due to the commercialization of hip hop, authenticity is rare to find in the mainstream

NY rap artists should embrace that other regions and coasts are soincally influences on rap. Just make good music, and blend genres and sonics. While NY Rappers are to busy trying to revive the NY Sound other regions and coasts are bending genres like rock and rap. NY rappers have to let go of the past and embrace everyone and not be scared to try new things. The internet has changed the game, and you can hear any type of music. Radio is played out and dead. NY rappers need to understand that Atlanta and Los Angles is running rap, and create because at the end of the day the PEOPLE decide what is hot and what is

Hip-hop’s fascination with authenticity is unique to the genre and its function of its roots as the cultural expression of socially and economically marginalized African-Americans. A narrow subculture, hip-hop’s rise to prominence as evidence by the rise of international hip-hop stars, a high percentage of hip-hop CD sales, and the cooption of all things “hip-hop” by large companies to target new consumer demographics, has jeopardized the genre’s “realness.” Listen to Kanye West’s “Ni**gas in Paris” produced in 2011 and then listen to Maceo’s “Nextel Chirp” produced in 2005, both tracks sound very similar, so what is authentic and what is not?

Around his neighborhood, Biggie Smalls, as he called himself then, began building a reputation as a musician. After a tape of his landed in the hands of Mister Cee, a DJ, Smalls was featured in the hip-hop company, The Source. That article soon caught the attention of Sean "Puffy" Combs, “a young producer at Uptown Entertainment, a New York-based label expert in hip-hop and rhythm and blues (Google/bio/biggie smalls/.com).” Uptown to start his own label, Bad Boy Entertainment, he brought Smalls with him.

However, non-American musicians could be successful in the local or regional markets, or what Mark Slobin has called a “transregional” market (Slobin, 1993) With regards to rap Slobin thinks of this as music invented as a struggle for African Americans against White America to what Stuart Hall describes as the “double movement of containment and resistance.” (Hall, 1981, p. 228) This struggle includes musics such as blues, jazz, rock and roll, soul, Motown, funk, and