Things Just Ain t is Hip Hop s reconstruction of gangster rap Identity

Things Just Ain t is Hip Hop s reconstruction of gangster rap Identity Gangster Rap, Hardcore Rap, or, in general is a sub-genre of the largest group of rap music, which in tu is a subcategory of hip-hop. Gangster Rap is differentiable from other rap music that refers to images of urban life associated with crime (Haugen, 2). According to the Encyclopedia Britannica definition of gangster rap, the first four images in the context of the genre are violence, drugs, materialism and sexual promiscuity.Gangster rapper as the definition of hip-hop group   As the hip-hop movement was the recognition in the United States, has established itself as one of the social groups most growth everywhere. In late 1990, shortly after the murder of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Wallace, two gangster rapper known at national level, a propaganda campaign against the escalation of rap music and hip-hop culture (Slaughter). Although gangster rap, only a small percentage of hip-hop culture at the time, all the hip-hop and rap music instantly stereotyped negatively as? Gangter-like?. Why? Well, this gangster version of hip-hop was the highest selling and recognized form of hip-hop music, most of the class. And many critics have noted that this fact is that America is in love with sex, drugs and violence (Whaley). Hip-Hop? Rejection of the S group of lower social status   Henri Tajfel, a social psychologist, a theory of inteational relations and social change in the group, believes that members of a social group as a lower class majority can accept or reject their inferior position in society. If a group refuses to accept their inferior position in society, only that you try as a group to change things (Coates, 8-9). A large number of hip-hop artists have their musical lyrics to reject the inferior social status conferred on them by the majority of reconstruction class.The gangster Identity   I found that the hip-hop artists use lyrics, both musical and poetic, to redefine the negative qualities that their culture with the majority of the class, and in the process, reconstruct the gangster identity. By examining these hip-hop and gangster rap lyrics of text, I would like to show how the text tries to reconstruct the stereotyped gangster rap identity by providing different views of violence, drugs, materialism and sexual promiscuity. In the end, more likely to ask: who exactly are the real gangsters? Violence   That culture hip-hop, gangster-like violence, is perhaps the most controversial claim under hip-hop artists. To refute this claim, many hip-hop artists on the violence that exists in most of the social group, and as the violence throughout the world.   In? Violence, 2 Pac shows his belief that violence was widespread, long before the gangster rap, there is: I have to fight, attack on society   When it comes to violence, then it is what I've Gotta be violent   If you investigate, find out where it come from? of   Look through our history, America is the violent oneHere, the poet on the American society? The strength? and that he is so violent? Fight back. In? Who Knew ", Eminem showed a similar point of view to express its conviction that violence is common in American society, but is not in question outside the genre, the urban environment: So who is Bringin? weapons in this country?   I could not secretly a plastic pellet gun through customs in London   And last week I saw the film Schwarzaneggar   Wherever he Shootin? all these with a bad UziHere, the writer puts into question the existence of violence in a country that has weapons and violent movies.In? The number of victims of war?, Rakim accuses the U.S. govement, especially its head of state since the group that violence in society with their war as a means: I'm back in New York in a single piece   But I'm bent in the sand that is hot, as the city streets   Sky lights up like a fireworks blind me   Bullets, whistlin? above my head I remember ...   President Bush said attack   Nam retrospect, I could not Backin this text, the poet refers to our country? Decision on the war as an example of violence, which in most social class.In? The Watcher ', Dr. Dre has defined the negative characteristics of violence by reference to the police as a source of violence and therefore they are? Gangster-like: It 'just not the same for Gangstas   Cops is anxious to help people in handcuffs   You want to hang us, and we are dead or enslave   Tell us, in the same place, we   And they wonder why we are so scandalous   Run around and pointed out lessons   Cause always leave the animal in a cage   And 'dangerous for people who look like strangersHere, the poet accuses the majority of the class to keep? Caught in the same place that we have? and that the perception of violence is only through the introduction of? People that seem unrelated. These are just some examples of how the hip-hop artist the image, with violence, or because there was much social group.Drugs   Another common stereotype is challenged by hip-hop artist is the use and distribution of illegal drugs. In an attempt to redefine this negative characteristic, many hip-hop artists on the majority social group as the moderator of drugs abuse.In? Justify My Thug ", Jay-Z speaks directly to the members of govement, the questions of who has the availability and use of these agents are possible: Mr President, there are drugs in our residence   Tell me what you want me to do, come break bread with us   Mr President, I swear, there is one   Every other coer there's a liquor store - what is? In this example, the poet wonders why there is a liquor store at? Every other coer? its community.In? I want to talk to you?, NAS uses the same approach to the concept of distribution of drugs by a representative what to do in his situation: Why y'all who are so hard, damn   Gotta Go people their jobs   Mr. Mayo, r imagine if this is your yard   Mr. Goveo, r imagine if children are those who hunger   Ask your child to crack Gotta Sling surviveHere, the poet says that the distribution of medicines is not only an effect of poverty that exists in its environment, but also a means for survival.In? Manifesto ", Talib Kweli actually accuses the govement of the body that the drugs in the country: how the CIA is Bringin? Crack in Bailin? aircraft   With the George Bush connections, I push Reflection   Sellin, as I am? IZM, like a dealer buildin? the system   The supply and demand capitalism   People do not sell crack because, to see how black smoke   People sell crack because brokeIn this example, the poet accuses the CIA to fly drugs into the country, and reiterated again that it is a means of survival through '? Supply and demand? society.In a capitalist? Damn it feels good as a gangster? The Geto Boys new negative feature of the distribution of drugs threw the President, a drug dealer, a gangster and then: And now a word from the President!   Damn, it feels good as Gangsta   Before? voted into the White House   Everything lookin? well, the world's people   But the Mafia is my head of the family   So now and then I have a favor Gettin 'Down   Latvian as "a major drug transit through the   And send 'em to the poor of the community   So we can bust you know whoThese examples show how the hip-hop artist to redefine the image as the drug dealers and users to retu the majority of the class, as the creator of the drug problem in this country.Materialism   Hip-hop is also supported by the majority of the class as a genre dominated by materialism. Even the artists back up most of the class to try to redefine this negative characteristic.In? Breathing?, Black Star on the wealth of urban areas, and how it accounts for the lower classes in materialism, what they want, that parts of the wealth: If you trade for mercenaries hot stock tips   For profits, thirsty criminals take pockets   Hard knuckles on the second hand workin? Class Watches   Skyscrapers is colossus, the cost of living   It is absurd to stay alive, to play or die, not optionsHere, the poet talks about various aspects of the materialistic, most of the class, and how the lower class are they? Play or die? on? stay alive. In? If all of the Down ", Kanye West actually blame this materialism on American society: It seems that living the American Dream   But the greatest of people have the lowest self-esteem   The most beautiful people of the ugliest things   For the road to riches and diamond ringsIn this example, the poet of guilt? American Dream? for materialism, which is the people? the ugliest of things to do? for? Wealth and diamond rings. In? "Los Angeles Times, Xzibit also the fault of the materialism of the majority of the class, arguing that is what young people are in urban environment: Welcome to LA   Where you see the whole city buing   Because the police and Uzis that are used to keep the dealers   And the children do not lea, with the exception of those   Sex power and wealth, forget everything elseHere, the poet expresses his belief that some aspects of materialism, including? Power and wealth? Classes for children through the events in society.These are examples of how hip-hop artists redefine the negative characteristic of materialistic, with examples of how this is materialism, the majority of the class, and often in this category. Sex   And the last debate stereotype of hip-hop is the social class who are sexually promiscuous, often leading to disrespectful treatment towards women. The poets also attempt to understand these new stereotype of the debt at the heart of the problem with society.In? Pussy Galore, "insisting that the roots of the country? S obsession with sex that is sexually-driven marketing campaigns: Lookin 'for a window on the poster LIMO   200 miles, was the only thing that I saw   Promotin "everything from alcohol to nicotine --   Cell phones, anti-histamine, chicken wings   You have some 'skin, listening   For the advanced years, the world is a sex machineIn this example, the poet recounts the personal experience in which he saw as sex ads? Promotin? everything. And in order? Have you heard?, He claimed? You have some 'skin. In? Get By, "Talib Kweli raises this sexual obsession, which in television: the TV gave us Reachin? Star rating   Not those of Venus and Mars,   Those READING? for parties   Some people get breast enhancements and penis enlargersHere, the poet expresses his belief that television creates a misconception of what people should be sexually, and this helps to ensure that the promiscuity is to blame for the Hip-Hop movement . Hip-hop artists have had their poetry and poetry to influence the rejection and reconstruction of the gangster identity that plagues their social class. This is confirmed by the redefinition of the negative features, most of the class. In most cases, they also redefined for the majority of the class, as well as the actual owner of these negative characteristics. The redefinition of this? Gangster-like? Images on the hip-hop lyrics helps to make the gangster identity in question? Gangster-like? Behavior and social class did indeed such behavior. Thus presented, the question is: who exactly are the gangsters? Works Cited / Discography   2 Pac. 2Pacalypse Now. Jive Records, 1991.   Black Star. Mos Def & Talib Kweli are Black Star. Rawkus Records, 1998.   Coates, Jennifer. Women, Men and Language. Longman Publishing, New York: 1993.   Dr. Dre. The chronic ° 2001 Interscope Records, 1999.   Eminem. Marshall Mathers LP. Interscope Records, 2000.   Geto Boys. Uncut Dope LP. Interscope Records, 1999.   Haugen, Jason. ? Unladylike Divas: language, sex and female gangster rapper. Popular Music and Society: December 2003.   Jay Z The Black Album. Def Jam, 2003.   Kanye West. College Dropout. Roc-A-Fella Records, 2004.   Nas. I am. Sony Records, 1999.   Rakim. Don? T Sweat technique. MCA Records, 1992.   Rawkus Records. Lyricist Lounge Volume 1 Priority Records, 1999.   Slaughter, Peter. ? The attack on rap music. Barutiwa Weekly News. 14th June 1997.   Talib Kweli & DJ Hi-Tek. Train of thought. Rawkus Records, 2000.   Talib Kweli. Quality. Rawkus Records, 2003.   The Roots. Phrenology. MCA Records, 2002.   Whaley, Angela. ? Hip Hop is not for sale. Colorado State University's Talking Back: Volume 3, Heft 1   Xzibit. 40 days and 40 nights. Loud Records, 1998.Nathaniel Long is the founder and editor of Hip Hop Linguistics, a website for the study, interpretation and understanding of hip-hop music, language, philosophy and culture. Read more articles and reviews