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Hip hop is a music genre and a cultural movement that began in the 1970s among African Americans in New York City and has since then spread around the world. It began in the early 70s as the creative and activist expression of graffiti, writing, DeeJaying, break dancing and rap music of black and Latino youths in south Bronx. It is a cultural movement that is expressed through fashion, attitude, language, politics and so many more Hip hop is a way of expressing ones self, it is a way of life. Hip hop as grown to encompass an entire lifestyle that consistently incorporates diverse elements of ethnicity, technology, art and urban life. During the era of old school hip hop, people influence the music, but now with emergence of mainstream hip hop as made music influence people.
Hip hop as transformed from a musical forum into a misogynist rant. In the 1990s there was a rise in the popularity of the “bling- bling” lifestyle in rap music, focusing on symbols of wealth and status like money, Jewellery, cars and cloths. Now there are lots of hip hop and rap artists such as Pdiddy, 50cents, Nelly, Ludacris, Nas and many more and there are also female rap artists like Queen Latifah, Lil Kim, Da Brat and some others. The general ideology behind hip hop is commonly associated with murder, sex, drug, money, violence, crime, superiority (being the Boss at all times).
The was a time that hip hop was used to create harmony and sense of the community of black Americans when it is needed most, but now it is all different instead of building up the community, the hip hop of today is actually breaking bonds between the older and younger generation, it extends the gap of social morality and promotes the denigration of people. The rise of hip hop nation also has earned negative attention for its unsavory behavioral by products, including violence in the name of keeping it real. Some of the images that would be used in this essay might be offensive but that is what women are portrayed has by the hip hop artists.
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the hip hop culture as transformed. it basically on sexuality, it revolves round physical beauty. Hip hop suggest stereotype of women as the submissive partner, places them in an inferior role, they are often characterized as helpless, fragile and vulnerable.
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