The Hip-Hop Influence On Kormac's Music

1. Keyes points out that rap music derives from what she refers to as the “West African bardic tradition.” What is this tradition? What is the role of the griot in this tradition? What parallels do you see between the groit and a hip hop MC (the rapper, often the main writer of lyrics for a group)?

The top innovator of hip-hop DJ Kool Herc or Clive Campbell of New York filed a lawsuit against satellite television network HBO and the producers of the television show titled Vinyl over allegedly using DJ Kool Herc’s identity, name and voice in a show that was produced by Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and some others. Supposedly in one of the episode’s the shows leading character visits the Bronx of New York City and is entranced by DJ Kool Herc scratching on the wheels of steel. DJ Kool Herc believes that this is a violation of a civil rights law in New York with likeness embezzlement and in addition, the common law in regards to trademark entitlements. According to Taso Pardalis, the attorney representing DJ Kool Herc: "It’s beyond us why

Today, the man who describe his music as "superchaged boogie pinao ballads" managed to surround himself with good people (Nick Jones at the drums and Lucas Itié at the bass) to release his 2 EPs including You Say which went out at the beggining of the year (and it's really good, we advise

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes is a documentary created and produced by Bryon Hurt. The documentary challenges the dominant discourses of hyper masculinity and the misogynist treatment of women in commercialized rap. Of the many mainstream phenomenons that are discussed by Bryon in the documentary, the issue of hyper masculinity in Hip Hop is questioned greatly. Throughout the film, the producer was able to show the wide acceptance of hyper masculinity not only in Hip Hop but also American culture as well. He defined America as a hyper masculine and hyper violent nation for the reason that using a gun to defend one’s family became a metaphor for masculinity and a tool for widespread violence. The issue of issue of hyper masculinity can be

Run-DMC was a trio of rappers that fused hip hop and hard rock together and created a complex sound that appealed to the public. Run-DMC, created a whole new look for mainstream Hip Hop which greatly influenced the “New Skool” era. The “New Skool” era brought Hip Hop the publicity it needed to become the mainstream genre that has influenced the world. In the past, Hip Hop made a large impression on the Billboard R&B charts, but it failed to break into the mainstream, then came the big break through. In 1986, Run DMC turned an old Aerosmith tune into a 80s Hip Hop classic. Their collaboration with Aerosmith on the song “Walk this Way” was a hit that took Hip Hop all the way. The song was #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and ushered in the commercialization

The hip-hop culture began in the streets of New York City during the 1970’s and has gone through tremendous changes up until now. Hip-Hop consists of four elements: rap, graffiti, break-dancing, and the disc jockey. In this paper, I intend to fully explain the evolution of rap music, from its infancy to the giant industry it is today.

Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Byron Hurt examined the troubling aspects of hip hop music. Hip hop was said to have brought masculinity back to the game. One aspect of this troubling masculine culture is the idea of hyper masculinity. The term hyper masculinity is defined as the exaggeration of male stereotypical behavior, such as an emphasis on physical strength, aggression, and sexuality. These three attributes create the disturbing facets of what hip hop music portrays to the media and the public.

Chris Kallmyer works with sound and space in exploring music through the human senses. This meaning he approaches music through taste, touch, and process using everyday objects. His works is different from traditional exhibitions of art. He likes to have the audience work with creating the art (audience and performer relationship) and many of installations explore sound and listening. According to Kallmyer, there is a creative source for the work he does. He likes to look at objects in different ways. For example, one of this projects was in an art museum where

Kool Herc began to experiment mix and scratch record. This began an aggressive dance styles, Graffiti, and lyrics. Instead of people fighting each other they would “battle”. This was when two people either had a dance off or a rap battle. The person who was the best dancer would win the battle. As for rap battling the person with the best lyrics would win. It wasn’t violent and it was a more creative way to defeat your opponent. Instead of everyone being secluded yet violent, they all came together and affiliated themselves with one another in a peaceful and fun way. New York no longer wanted to be known as the violent slums it was once before. Now it wants to be recognized for having fun, being creative, and just having a good

Like any other style of music, hip hop has roots. Even though many artists contributed to the style of hip hop, Clive Campbell, “DJ Kool Herc,” is the founding father of it. Kool Herc originally started hip hop about six years before the term “hip hop” entered the popular vocabulary. WHBI’s radio show host “Mr. Magic,” was the first to play hip hop anywhere (Ogg 85). Hip Hop, like Rock n Roll before it, is not only a genre of music, but also a complex system of ideas, values and concepts that reflect newly emerging and ever-changing creative correlative expressive mechanisms including but not limited to song, poetry, film, and fashion (Hip 1). Hip Hop includes a wide variety of music originating from Blacks and Hispanic as it was used to express

Hip-Hop is a complex cultural movement formed during the early 1970s by African Americans in the slums of South Bronx, New York (Dyson 6), it propagated outside of the African American community in late 1980s, and by the opening of the 21th century it became the most spread culture in the world. Hip-Hop consists of four elements: Deejay, Break-Dancing, Rapping, and Graffiti. (Kenon 112)

Authenticity has been connected to hip-hop since the genre’s inception in the late 1970s. Claims to authenticity are widespread to an unparalleled degree throughout all types of hip-hop music, from “gangsta”, lyrical, and party. Why is hip-hop preoccupied to such a large extent with the notion of authenticity? What qualities creates authentic hip-hop? Despite the previous absence of scholarly attention given to hip-hop, there has been a recent growth in hip-hop academia as the genre has solidated its position as a major market and cultural force within not only the United States, but also all over the world.

According to Wikipedia, Hip-hop music, also called rap music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It developed as part of hip hop culture, a subculture defined by four key stylistic elements: MCing/rapping, DJing/scratching, breaking/dancing, and graffiti writing. Hip hop is also characterized by these other elements: sampling (or synthesis), and beatboxing.

stuff, so I don't listen to that genre all that much, but there are many

Hip Hop in the most popular genre of music between all African American communities, not just in America, but worldwide. Hip Hop has expanded itself into music, fashion, advertisement, movies, and it’s given many rappers, and those associated with the genre, the chance to influence their communities, societies and their culture in general, but commercial Hip Hop in the U.S. has branded Hip Hop in a negative way. (The Young and The Hip-Hop, Hip Hop Culture Center in Harlem, 2012, Web, Oct. 27, 2014) This is all due to the negative imagery and negative lyrics like the term nigga, negative implications of Hip Hop include exploiting black adolescent girls, promoting unhealthy lifestyles, and implying that the open use of the word nigga is not harmful. Hip Hop has become a global phenomenon where it has evolved from a genre of music to a lifestyle for the African American community.