Artists using other Artists beats or lyrics
Many artists use past artist’ beats or lyrics and incorporate them into their songs. People always say “He/She stole their flow” or “He/She stole their bars”. When in reality that artist is just paying tribute or giving respect to the artist who came up with the beat or lyric.
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As hip-hop/rap has evolved through the years, the same few tendencies remain intact. No matter the beat or the artist the same tendencies remain. The title for this paper will be “Common themes in the Evolution of Hip-Hop/Rap”. This paper will address how artists use their music and other platforms, such as social media, to show off their accessories. The paper will also give examples of how these artists show off their acquired accessories. When listening to hip-hop/rap music many people overlook the fact that these artists use these same tendencies in almost every song. The artists also have numerous musical platforms that their music can be heard from allowing them to have a bigger audience than rappers in the past had. Now with the uprise of social media, artists can preview songs that they will release, or they can post videos of themselves with women, drugs (usually weed), or just bands of money.
When listening to hip-hop/rap music you will hear some common tendencies in almost every song. “Don’t go big on me, you might get hit with this MAC” or it can be lyrics such as “Droppin’ the dope in the stash. In Italy, got two foreign hoes, they DM me.” These are two hip-hop/rap songs and you can see the topics they try to focus on. In the first line of lyrics, you see 21 Savage give a threat to anyone who opposes him or tries to “step up to him”. Rappers today can express these threats through social media and direct it towards another rapper. Rappers in the ’90s didn’t have the same platform that rappers today experience so sending a message to another rapper was more personal. For example, the infamous Drake and Meek Mill beef were them exchanging diss tracks between each other and social media played a big role in deciding a winner. In the ’90s the infamous Tupac and Biggie, beef was definitely more personal. Not only with song lyrics but also in the streets, having to do with territory. As you can see the artists today settled their beef by whoever had the best diss track while back in the 90’s the beef was settled by Tupac dying or other rappers dying. This genre will target anyone who finds interest in hip-hop/rap music or wants to learn more about the genre.
Using hip-hop/rap songs and evidence of events through the media will show how the evolution of artists has changed but the tendencies in their songs have not. The evidence will show the ways in which these artists flaunt their accessories and try to prove themselves to others. People will finally be able to take a closer look at how most artists of this genre today showboat on social media or say things in the song that are essentially out of character for them. While rappers in the ’90s would do the same thing, but the message meant more to them.
Subject: Social Media exposure of hip-hop/rap…
POS: …can influence a large number of people to either like or dislike an artist’s music based on what the artist’s post which can be them showing off guns, drugs, and women.
Subject: Different flow and delivery of artists…
POS: …can give each artist their own unique “sound” and separates them from other artists also flaunt guns, drugs, and women in their songs.
Subject: Uprising music Platforms…
POS: gives artists more ways for their music to be heard and give them popularity while flaunting their guns, drugs, and/or women.
As a subject: Artists use their music and social media to show off their accessories.
As a question: In what ways do artists flaunt(show off) their access to guns, drugs, and/or women?
Listened to on many streaming services, the Evolution of His-Hop/Rap has changed the way music is being heard with the perception of drugs, guns, and women throughout their songs. For example, In the early ’90s, rappers such as Tupac would rap about drugs, guns, and how many women they had while sending a message in the process. While rappers and hip-hop artist today use drugs, guns, and women to flaunt or prove themselves to others.
Introduce Your Genre
1. Identify your tentative “underappreciated” genre (or subgenre)
Evolution of Hip Hop and how drugs, guns, and woman are used in a song
2. What is interesting to you about this genre? Or, why might it be significant or otherwise worth paying attention to?
Hip Hop is my favorite genre of music, but I can’t help but notice that every rapper includes drugs that they do (weed, lean, molly etc.), guns that they carry and then tie it in to their songs, or they describe that they have a lot of money and use it to buy different things (Gucci belts, Versace etc.)
3. Tentatively, define/describe your corpus (collection of texts/examples)
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4. Provide links (and/or titles) of five samples. (Try to gather samples from more than one “place” [or type] in order to obtain a diverse and accurate representation of the genre. For now, choose samples without significant deviations).
Crushed up-Future Hit’Em Up-2Pac (Ft. Outlawz) No LOL’z- LPB Poody
223’s- GlokkNine & YNW Melly Can’t leave without it- 21 Savage
Describe the Context
1. Setting: Where (in what context or medium) does the genre appear? How and when is it used? With what other genres does this genre interact? How?
This genre appears on most hip hop and rap songs which can be found on numerous sites or apps such as Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Tidal etc. Depending on the song, it can be used frequently or very little or sometimes not at all. Not sure what other genres it interacts with but I’m sure they’re some others.
2. Subject: What topics, issues, ideas, etc. are common to this genre? When people use this genre, what are they communicating about?
There’re numerous things associated with this genre. To name a few: Cop shooting, different drugs, alcohol in some cases, women, current issues in the world etc. They can communicate literally anything. Any issue currently in the world can be talked about in a hip-hop/rap song and somewhere in the song drugs and woman etc. will appear in some manner.
3. Writers: Who writes the texts in this genre? Are multiple writers possible? What roles do they perform? What characteristics must writers of this genre possess? Under what circumstances do writers write the genre (e.g., in teams, on a computer, in a rush, for their profession? for fun?)?
The song artist can write the texts or someone else can write the music for them. Yes, multiple writers are possible. The songwriter must be able to write song lyrics that go with the flow of the beat. If they go off beat it must at least sound good. they’re some rappers who sing off beat on purpose and that’s considered their “flow”. Usually, there’s a group who sit in the studio and write out some songs but that’s not always the case. The artist sometimes writes song lyrics by themselves first and then find a beat.
4. Readers: Who reads the texts in this genre? Is there more than one type of reader for this genre? What roles do they perform? What characteristics must readers of this genre possess? Under what circumstances do readers read the genre (e.g., at their leisure, on the run, in waiting rooms)?
No one really reads the texts, but I guess reading song lyrics can be associated with this. I would say a lot of people read or listen to song lyrics for hidden meanings.
5. Exigency/Purpose(s): Why do writers write this genre, and why do readers read it? What purposes does the genre fulfill for the people who use it?
I would say they do it for pure enjoyment. People who write or read rap/ Hip-hop music must have some enjoyment of the genre. I think the fulfillment changes for each person. Not everyone is going to like the same artist or the same songs