Senior Project Outline Source #3

Specific Page Title or Article Title” Negative Influences of Rap & Hip Hop Music
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Joanna White-Oldham, ehow contributor
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )  ehow.com
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) ehow
Date Page was Last Revised None given
Date You Read It February 3  2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) http://www.ehow.com/about_5418679_negative-rap-hip-hop-music.html

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): Joanna White-Oldman believes that hip-hop lyrics are imitated by most people from all races and are impending peoples judgment over how they should act and not do in society, “song lyrics can become embedded in the mind and can unconsciously motivate a listener's actions”.

Hip-Hop helped modified people from the way they dress, speak, and socialize however the upcoming of gansta rap illustrated a negative norm of those ways, “The emergence of "gangsta rap" in the 1980s marked the beginning of some disintegration of the positive images in hip-hop culture”.

Though some rappers retell their life story in a fluid lyrical way without derogatory words, gangster rap is filled with offensive word with no sense of retelling their life upbringing what so ever, “Many gangsta hip-hop artists justify their music by claiming they are only retelling the experiences of their lives on the streets. However, close analysis of the song lyrics often reveals a plethora of curse words and no substance”. The listeners then tend to idolize these types of rappers and imitate their behavior out in society, glorifying violence.

Joanna White-Oldman may glorify hip-hop as a negative norm throughout our society but everything has a positive side, “Many people believe that all hip-hop has the gangsta appeal that has such a destructive effect on youth. This is simply not true. There are hip-hop artist that perpetuate positive messages, artists like Mos Def and Common are hip-hop artists of substance with uplifting messages”.

The only ways Joanna White-Oldman believes that this type of music can be reduced in our society is that, “parents should take a firm stand against the production of this music by refusing to purchase it. A decrease in record sales may trigger an increase in responsibility on the part of the artists.

Senior Project Outline Source #2

“Specific Page Title or Article Title” 'Hip-Hop Is the Most Important Youth Culture on the Planet’
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) Time inc. All Right Reserved
Title of the Entire Website (not www.) Time.com
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) Time Entertainment
Date Page was Last Revised Friday, September, 2000
Date You Read It February 2 2012
<URL address> (ALL of it) http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,55624,00.html

Hip-Hop is an all rounded genre as quoted by Kevin Powell, who considered one of America’s most important voices in these early years of the 21st century, “And hip-hop is urban folk art, period. And that urban folk art is about the lives of a very unique group of people, of how they made something out of nothing, and how that nothing has come to define an entire era in many ways, be it our language, our fashion, our attitudes, our art, the way we make music, and the way we do and do not communicate across race, gender, geography, and cultures”.

Kevin Powell also states that Hip-Hop came from an era of rebelliousness and where intended to target white mostly who later accepted that genre in their society, “You can't talk about American music without talking about Black people and Black musical forms. And you cannot discuss Black music without taking it account its edginess (think of bluesman Robert Johnson, bebop innovator Charlie Parker, rocker Little Richard, soul man Otis Redding, et al.), its rebelliousness (anyone from Big Mama Thornton to Jimi Hendrix) and the fact that edginess and rebelliousness ultimately appeals to white young people as much as it does to Black young people. That and "white music" suffering slumps from time to time made the white embrace of hip-hop inevitable

Hip-Hop arisen from rappers that come from difficult times, they use rap as a mean to express their pain and let the world know that anyone can make a difference and if anyone could, they would make a positive difference in the world but that aint easy it requires patience and motivation as quoted by Kevin Powell, “Hip-hop, in spite of being a billion-dollar business, is still the blues of the working poor. And I can say this because this is the world I come from; the working poor are just basically trying to survive from day to day. I find it very classist for people to raise the issue about positive versus negative hip-hop because the same people who raise that issue don't usually discuss the death-baiting conditions which most hip-hoppers come out of”.

Kevin Powell also states that Hip-Hop tend to give listeners a perspective of the rappers life struggle, “Hip-hop's roots are not Jamaican, nor Puerto Rican, nor African American, but African. It's part of the continuum of African art forms — in some traditional African societies, for example, we find the "griot," who is the storyteller or oral historian.

The point  Kevin Powell is trying to make is, “that no matter where we were enslaved in the Western Hemisphere, be it Jamaica, Brazil or South Carolina, we as Black people held on to modes of speech, dance movements, and attitudes (what some call "cool") that formed the foundation for hip-hop's emergence in an African-American context”.