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Lit hop (also Lit-hop) is a hybrid art form that combines themes from traditional literature and storytelling with the music and poetics of hip-hop.The term is sometimes used to describe literature that is influenced by hip-hop music and culture, [1] [2] and sometimes used to describe highly literate or lyrically sophisticated hip-hop music. [3] "
Movie adaptations of books often get a bad rap. And often, it's deserved. Seriously, don't even get us started on The Great Gatsby. (We still love...
From disco to AKs. Whether it was seen as a fun new form of disco, important Black urban storytelling, or an irresponsible, violence-glorifying genre, early rap was a juicy tale for the press
Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [68] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...
The documentary concerned the history of rap music and hip-hop culture in the United States, from its origins in the Bronx to mainstream stardom at the turn of the 20th century, to the present day. The documentary focuses a lens on the political aspects and ramifications of Hip-hop music in a reactionary culture. [3]
American rapper 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson) sporting a hip-hop look at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, June 3, 2010. Rapping (also rhyming, flowing, spitting, [1] emceeing, [2] or MCing [2] [3]) is an artistic form of vocal delivery and emotive expression that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and [commonly] street vernacular". [4]
These 79 best movies based on true stories prove that truth really can be stranger than fiction. It can also be more heartwarming, shocking, and inspirational. ... Some stories get even better ...
Dante Meditating on the Divine Comedy.Jean-Jacques Feuchère, 1843. Literary fiction, mainstream fiction, non-genre fiction, serious fiction, [1] high literature, [2] artistic literature, [2] and sometimes just literature, [2] are labels that, in the book trade, refer to market novels that do not fit neatly into an established genre (see genre fiction) or, otherwise, refer to novels that are ...