Rap Music: From a

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Rap MusicFrom a Home-Made Original Flavor to
a Sugar Coated Generic Brand

• Serena Aquino
• UNST 121-123G
• Forbidden Knowledge
• Professor Bianco

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African Griot and Modern Rapper

• Story teller
• African griot and post modern rapper
• Drummer and disk jockey

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Early Years of Rap

• 1970s and 1980s
• Bronx, New York
• Disk jockey and lyricist
• DJ Kool Herc
• Grand Master Flash

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Social and Political Element of Rap

• 1982
• Chuck D.
• Public Enemy
• Black Community
• Social problems

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Controversy

• Early 1990s
• NWA (Niggas With Attitudes)
• Gangster rap
• Sex, crime and violence
• FBI

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Battle Rap

• Verbal skills
• Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
• Nas and Jay-Z

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Christian Rap

• Mid 1980s
• Stephen Wiley
• God
• Ministry

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Southern Rap

• Mainstream
• Southern Cities
• Sound and slang
• Lifestyle

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Quantitative Literacy Element

• Billboard Top 20
• Products mentioned
• Mercedes
• 50 Cent

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Women in Rap Music Videos

• VH1 Hip-Hop Video-Sexploitations
• Sexual objects
• Video vixens
• Karrine Steffans

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Conclusion

• Changed in thirty years
• Materialistic
• Sexual objects
• The mainstream
• Flamboyant attitudes