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Hip Hop Sierra Drake, Lynndsay O’Neill

2.  Entertainment
 Resist racial and economic oppression
 Raise awareness of social issues
 Give rise to and provoke change among
the community
 Provide an escape and allows for
expression of thoughts and feelings
Purpose of Hip Hop

3.  One global community with its own language,
culture and history, signs and anthem
 a nation that hip hop artists became proud to be
apart of
 Some say that it was just as much a nation as any
other that can be found on the map
“Hip Hop Nation”

4.  Commercial record industry
 Celebrities
 Fame
 Can get materialistic
 Underground
 Alternative, locally based voice
 Los Angeles workshop Project Blowed
Two forms of hip hop

5. Negatives:
 Can advocate or
influence violence
 Glamorizes the thug or
gangster life
 Cause negative
stereotypes
 Project hypersexuality
and subjectification of
women
 Materialistic
Positives/Negatives of hip hop

6. Social Issues:
US and Abroad
 The 90’s were a time in
America where racial
and social issues were
fought through the use
of Hip Hop
 Abroad other social
issues were also
expressed through Hip
Hop
 Conferences were held
to help mobilize youth
and deal with these
social issues

7.  Not limited to african american males
 Women have made their way up in hip hop
Missy Elliot
Eminem
Macklemore

9. Positives:
 Hip Hop and Social Change Conference 2003
 National Hip Hop political convention 2004
 Citizen Change encouraging voting for youth
 Benefit concerts
Positives/Negatives of hip hop
Sean Combs, Tyson Beckford

10. Economic Development
 Hip Hop has created an international industry
 Western Hip Hop music has dominated over seas
industries having held a 60% market share
 Music, clothing, shoes, accessories, electronics have all
been endorsed through hip hop artists
 Inspiration through music has led to an increase in
youth entrepreneurships
 Since the beginning tremendous amounts of profit
have been generated.

11.  Racism
 Tupac- changes
 talked about the hate in our society and the corruption that
needs to change: “I see no changes, all I see is racist faces/
Misplaced hate makes disgrace for races.”
 Sexism
 Tupac’s song Keep Ya Head Up talks about disrespect that men
have for women and leaving mothers to raise children on their
own
 Unfortunately this is still an issue we have today and probably
will for some time
 Violence
 Black eyed peas- where is the love?
 Talks about violence around the world and people needing to
find the love inside of them instead of hating each other and
being racist
 Homophobia
 Macklemore- same love
Social issues addressed in specific songs

12.  Keep Ya Head Up:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfXwmD
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 Changes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nay31hvEv
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 Where is the Love?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYeekQk
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 Same Love:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlVBg7_08
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