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Hilmar Langhelle Mjelde (born 1981) is a PhD candidate in comparative politics at the University of Bergen, and teaches American politics. Stayed in 1998-1999 as an exchange student in an African American family in the Kansas City / Detroit. Hiphop: From Revolutionary to gangster
The world's rapstjerne all time, Tupac Shakur, storegate was killed 13 september 1996. More than any other hip hop he reflected tension between potent social critique and romanticism of a violent and materialistic gangster life.
They show that it is stifled, voldsforherligende, übermaterialistisk and especially oppressive to women, with 50 Cent as proof (they have seen music videos on The Voice). A good example is the African-American professor of political science who rebuked our institute administrator, when he learned that she allowed her 15 year old son listen to Snoop Dogg.
Although they have much reasonable criticism of hiphop, reducing a diverse storegate music and culture to the superficial commercialism. However hiphop a much richer and more complex music form than it is represented as.
What is Hip Hop "Rap is something you do, hip hop is a lifestyle," says the legendary Gang Starr producer DJ Premier. Hip hop arose in New York in the 1970s, specifically in the African American and Puerto Rican community in the South Bronx. Black Power movement and puertorican nationalist activism was on the wane, and the economic storegate recession led to social unrest.
To reduce tensions between ethnic groups, initiated local organizations Zulu Nation welfare measures for the district's children. Especially popular was the opening music festivals to DJ Kool Herc, who immigrated from Jamaica with his family in 1967. Kool Herc is called "the godfather of hip hop culture", when he created a new style of music by mixing two copies of the same album.
The technique caught on, and other DJs emerged quickly. Dancers began to compete storegate against each other DJs music - what became known as "breakdancing." storegate Some of the participants in the emerging culture also tagged their name on trains and walls, thus graffiti was part of hip hop. And while DJs dj-one, they shouted out jokes, rants and raves and other comments, it became known as rapping.
In the mid-70th storegate century was thus hip hop culture four elements in place - DJ-ing, breakdancing, graffiti and rapping. Of these four items were rapping the only thing that has taken off commercially. "Rapper's Delight" became the first hit song (1979), and Run DMC became the first rapgruppe which sold a million albums (1985). In 1988, sales of hip-hop discs for over a billion dollars, and in 1996 became the world's largest commercial hiphop music genre.
Hiphop-rebel From hip hop beginnings as a street party in the Bronx, was the second Metro Awards quickly embraced by a wider audience. Particularly exposed MTV show "Yo MTV Raps" Americans for hiphop.
But when the musical light guards and MC Hammer (white) Vanilla Ice in 1990 had become hip hop's biggest stars, especially African-Americans felt that the genre had become diluted and becoming kooptert music industry. In parallel with hip hop crossover into popular culture, hip-hop rebel turned up.
The "real" hip crowd took two different, storegate but both social storegate criticism directions toward the end of the 1980s - a New York-based etnonasjonalistisk, and an LA-based gangster rap (gangsta storegate rap). Here we meet hip-hop rebel. In the etnonasjonalistiske variant, called "conscious storegate rap", rapper hip-hop rebel about the desperate situation of the urban African-American community in the late 1980's. Crime, corrupt police, unemployment, prison, and drugs are taken up.
Public storegate Enemy became its leading exponent album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988). With its hard sound and militant rhetoric, rapper group on social issues that characterize the urban African-American community. Brand Nubian, KRS-One, Pete Rock & CL Smooth among other exponents of hip hop so. I allow me to recommend the latter's wonderful song "They Reminisce Over You" to the strongest.
Meanwhile showed up gangster rebel - the rebel criminals. The pioneer here is NWA - Niggaz With Attitude - with the album "Straight storegate Outta Compton" (1988). The topic is also in the African American ghetto, but described the nihilistic lyrics about gjengliv and violence. Thus, taken social issues such as police brutality storegate and poverty up, but told through the eyes of a gangster who is ready to "smoke any motherfucker that sweats me," as rapper MC Ren. Ice-T and Geto Boys are other known gangster rappers of that time.
Gangster ideal takes over towards the mid-1990s, however, storegate shifted the center of gravity to the hip hop gangster rap, after NWA dressed g