The tanning of America: how hip hop created a culture that rewrote the rules of the new economy. New York, Penguin Group, 2011Stoute, Steve. 2011. The Tanning of America: How Hip-Hop Created a Culture that Rewrote the Rules of the New Economy. New York: Gotham Books....
when he released his debut album “The College Dropout.” Back then he was an outsider—the backpack rapper with a lot on his mind and a fashion sense that didn’t jibe with an era where his peers swam in XXXL tees (regardless of physique) and retro sports jerseys. In pastel...
Since 2017, R&B/hip-hop has been the dominant music genre on the United StatesBillboardcharts, becoming bigger than pop and rock and coming to define modern popular music. And its reign hasn’t let up since, with new smashes and superstars created every year. So how did it happen? How...
Then it was up to him to take it to the next level. This positive change created his teaching career. This also gave other people the ability to develop their rap freestyle techniques. Sharing his story with his audience made me check out his courses and his other videos. I got the cha...
If there was any hip-hop star that comes first to mind when thinking about Lagerfeld’s legacy, it has to be no one other than Pharrell Williams. The stylish producer from Virginia Beach has always been an ardent supporter of Chanel. Back in 2011, he went viral for customizing a black ...
The introduction of record scratching became a defining moment for hip-hop and paved the way for future DJs to explore and innovate.
Hip-Hop Just Rang In 50 Years As A Genre. What Will Its Next 50 Years Look Like? On the eve of the first-ever Olympic breakdancing competition, hip-hop legend Kurtis Blow was thrilled. It was the first time one of the core elements of hip-hop culture had reached such a global stage...
And in Belling’s case, it was hip-hop that helped inform his architecture. He has been immersed in Australia’s hip-hop scene for years, and it was his interactions with that community where he began to see the possibilities of bringing hip-hop into his projects. “I would have thought...
diss song is created and intended to disrespect a person/ a group of people. Musical parodies and attacks have always been a thing, but the diss track gained more popularity and commonality in the hip hop genre, which was fuelledby the rivalry that is very evident in the hip hop community...
though the track was swiftly removed by UMG, who deemed it “infringing content created with generative AI.” Representatives for the labeltoldBillboardthat the song’s viral rise “demonstrates why platforms have a fundamental legal and ethical responsibility to prevent the use of their ...