pre reading week 11

I am a major fan of hip-hop and rap and all things associated with it.  i feel like typically we see a masculine male black MC spitting his lyrics about bitches and hoes and money and drugs, this leads the world to create stigmas of what black people act like.  hip-hop is a genre of music that is entertaining and but i also believe that its main agenda is to show the world of the struggles people go through who aren't as privileged as others.  when you have rappers singing about how the law is trying to put the black man down and how you have to hussel drugs and prostitutes in order to survive, they are trying to show the rest of the population how they have to struggle in order to achieve anything.  For the most part we see black rappers and hip-hop artists.  i few observations that i can make is that rap songs and hip-hop songs tend to be about struggles and hardships and situations that most people can relate to, which leads me to connect how black communities tend to have a more rough upbringing in ghetto places.  gang affiliation also plays a role in these genres of music.  when you imagine a gang you imagine a group of minorities who stick together and cause problems in order to skew the power that is usually held by white people.  in a sense, its a way to challenge the system of racial hierarchy.  hip-hop is viewed as problematic, but at the same time it is popular with its catchy beats and skillful hooks and deep message of oppression, love, hate, rage, lust, and so many other things.  people can listen to an Eminem song and just bob their head to the beat or feel how he hates his ex-wife and loves his daughter.  he is also the only hip-hop artist to never use the "n" word in any of his sings.  its about respecting the artist for conveying a personal tough story to tell through a song where they can make millions of dollars off of.  also the rise of the female hip-hop artist is really tickling my fancy.  artists such as nicki minaj and azealia banks are on the top of my hip-hop list.  female MC's weren't around in the height of the hip-hop era but are making a stance for what women have to deal with in accordance to their male counterparts.  one thing that also draws attention to the hip-hop scene is what they refer to as "beef" or an altercation between one artist and another.  for example iggy azealia and azealia banks are two new artists on the scene,iggy is nothing compared to ms. banks, who have beef over who is a better artist.  beef like this keeps artists alive and motivated to crush their competition.

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