Author: jchick96
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Preserving your Identity
Beginning in 1985, the number of African students coming to the U.S. began to increase substantially. The largest increase was seen between 2000 and 2010 with an African population in the U.S. being 1.6 million. Many African immigrants came from Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya and came to destinations…
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The Lack of Women Empowerment with Female MC’s
Hip Hop is a male dominated field. Many of the male artists in their music discuss women primarily in a negative light. They either discuss women as inferior to them, discuss them as hoes, discuss women at the strip club, and more. Male MC’s fail to acknowledge women in a…
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U.S. and South African Hip Hop Artists
Hip Hop is a male dominated field with very few women in the genre. Both the United States and South Africa are breaking grounds with more inclusion of women in hip hop and more encouragement as well. Female hip hop artists are using their voices to convey a message different…
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“Respect the Nubians”
Hip Hop requires authenticity. No matter how you define authenticity it is the central element to hip hop. As stated in The Struggle for Authenticity and Against Commercialization in Tanzania “to be considered hip hop you need to stay true to the origins of hip hop as a tool of…
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The Battle Between Hip-Hop & Pop
Our assignment was to find one hip-hop artist and one pop artist from Africa and compare their videos based on style and lyrics. I chose to look at South African hip-hop artist Kiernan Forbes, better known as AKA. In contrast, I chose to look at Nigerian pop artist Yemi Alade.…