This week JP Lime’s Prof delivers a Lyric Analysis of a Hip Hop classic, Yasiin Bey’s (formerly Mos Def) song “Hip Hop”, off his 1999 solo debut ‘Black on Both Sides’. The title is a reference to the Black Star Line, a shipping line founded by Pan-Africanist Marcus Garvey. A bitter and tender memory, like an exposed nerve, Hip Hop reminds us that the difficult road that black folks in America have traveled is intrinsically and tenderly tied to their identity. He interrogated the nature of human identity through the inner city. New World Water 10. CTRL + SPACE for auto-complete.Adramatic Hip-Hop utilise des cookies pour améliorer votre expérience. I share Bey’s sentiment that Hip Hop has that power, a strength not possessed by every art in every time, a potential for dynamic creation and social significance. The manner in which the music is made and the words spoken on top are often borrowed and bent for new purposes. These cookies do not store any personal information.Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Lyrics to 'Hip Hop' by Mos Def. Where lyrical allusions are concerned, one must not adhere too closely to the original source lest one be accused of rote repetition at best and plagiarism or biting at worst. Find more at Throughout this verse and the first as well, Yasiin follows a thin line between praising Hip Hop and pointing out its faults. It’s not just that Hip Hop has positive and negative traits but that in the combination of the two the more complete picture of the art-form is painted. Speed Law 06. Remember, this is Yasiin near the beginning of his career, the first solo release after Yasiin wastes no time, jumping right into the tactic of description through piecemeal details. In this way, lyrical allusions can be viewed a lot like the musical samples over which they’re spoken.
He might have changed his media diet somewhat since then, but back in 2005 he claimed his intake and influences were “mostly movies and TV and comparing real life situations to similar nostalgic movie situations or things like that.” That methodology doesn’t seem that strange for any songwriter, raps, rhymes or otherwise, but the first rule of writing is to read.
Poetry, Hip Hop and Podcasts all at Oddball Magazine, check us out! Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Mos Def compare l’omniprésence des graffiti de Phase 2, célèbre graffeur new-yorkais dans les années 1970, à celle du Hip-Hop, maintenant considérée comme une culture dominante :Pour toute demande/proposition (sérieuse!) The harshest and most straightforward critique comes next, accusing the game of breaking the fourth of the Ten Crack Commandments. He compares himself to Jack in Golding’s Speaking of animals, on “Animal in Man” (2000), Dead Prez retell the story of George Orwell’s best novel, Greene’s 48 Laws have been referenced in songs by everyone from Drake, Kanye, and Jay-Z to Beanie Sigel, Rick Ross, and Ras Kass, the latter of whom did a whole song called “48 Laws (Part 1)” applying the first 24 laws to the hip-hop industry. Mos Def has influenced numerous hip hop artists throughout his career, including Lupe Fiasco, Jay Electronica, Kid Cudi, and Saigon. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Aujourd’hui, l’alcool reste largement mis en avant dans le rap, toutefois les enseignes appartiennent aux businessmans issus de cette culture comme Jay-Z, Puff Daddy ou encore Drake :Ici, Mos Def dépeint les contradictions du hip-hop en mettant en avant les différentes perceptions de cette musique :– « Stimulant sédatif » fait référence à l’écoute des auditeurs qui se fait soit par la réflexion, soit par le divertissement, comme en boite par exemple.Il dénonce également l’omniprésence de la drogue dans les textes de rap, devenant ainsi le quotidien de nombreux rappeurs, et évolue de ce fait vers une consommation addictive.Mos Def prolonge la métaphore olympique avec celle des armes, le hip-hop excellerait ainsi dans le fait de cannibaliser l’industrie par la violence et la compétition grandissante. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Got 08. On his song “Dumb It Down,” Lupe Fiasco rhymes, “I’m brainless, which means I’m headless, like Ichabod Crane is…”. These allusions give the oral history of hip-hop music a cohesion and a history similar to that created by the musical riffs of other live instrumental-based genres.Philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn, the guy who gave us the idea of paradigm shifts, described an essential tension in science between innovation and tradition: Too innovative and the theory is untestable, too traditional and it’s not useful. ‘Black on Both Sides’, from the artist formerly known as Mos Def, now known as Yasiin Bey, is one of my top-10 all-time albums, an absolute Hip Hop classic, without a single wasted track.
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