America discusses the nature of hip hop along with the relationship between African Americans and America. Many take the idea of hip hop to be just African Americans and rap music. George continually focuses on hip hop’s many contradictions. He addresses how hip hop represents race, ethnicity, class, gender, and generation.
George covers much familiar ground: how a-beats became hip hop; how technology changed popular music, which helped to create new technologies; how professional basketball was Influenced by hip hop styles; how angst rap emerged out of the crack epidemic of the sass; how many elements of hip hop culture managed to celebrate, and/or condemn black-on-black violence; how that black-on-black violence was somewhat encouraged by white people scheming on black males to show their foolishness, which often created a huge mess; and finally, how hip hop used and continues to use Its art to express black frustration and ambition to blacks while, at the same time, referring that frustration and ambition to millions of whites.
Chapter 3 and chapter 16 “dad joint and beyond” really caught my eye.Chapter 3 “gangsters-real and unreal” summarized the image of the “hood” and crime filled areas where people are regularly being robbed, shot, and killed. It also told how drugs came about and became a new industry. It also became popular among musicians and soon became a way to employ young poor teens who lived in these “hoods”. As many blacks are poor a lot of the hip hop lyrics began and still does focus on the distribution of drugs and crime in the streets. It sells because people who haven’t experienced it like to here how others lived and their stories and those who eave experienced it like to relate to what they know and have been through.
In chapter 16 George speaks on how many slang words and phrases have been used in hip hop that and have evolved as the time goes on, some have lost meaning and some have new meanings, they change with style and mark past moments. It tells how in the ass hip hop wasn’t looked at as to be something that would get blacks rich or even a profit but now any businesses that have to do with hip hop brings in money. George compares Master P, an ex street hustler, now multi-millionaire to Booker T. Washington (creator of the Tuskegee Institute). Master P. Opened his own business, No Limit Records, and took control and ran with It. Being that this Is the last chapter It ends by asking whether or not hip hop now will be looked upon by the next generation like this generation looks at hip hop before us and will hip hop be Influenced by America like it has been.
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Washington (creator of the Tuskegee Institute). Master P. Opened his own business, No Limit Records, and took control and ran with it. Being that this is the last chapter it ends by asking whether or not hip hop now will be looked upon by the next Nell written so well that IM not even sure I understood exactly everything to the point due to the diction but overall it was understandable and I enjoyed it. Because it gave to know about hip hop in America.
