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Political hip hop (also known as political rap and Conscious hip hop) is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged in the 1980s as a form of political expression and activism. It typically addresses sociopolitical issues through lyrics, aiming to inspire action, promote social change, or convey specific political viewpoints.
Michigan rap is a regional subgenre of hip-hop in the United States, including Detroit rap, a style characterized by its "underdog spirit". [1] Pivotal figures in the emergence of Michigan and Midwestern hip-hop scene include MC Breed .
In hip hop music, political hip hop, or political rap, is a form developed in the 1980s, inspired by 1970s political preachers such as The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron. Public Enemy were the first political hip hop group to gain commercial success. [1]
Speech of Arrested Development looks back on 30 years of rap: making a breakthrough album, writing "Tennessee" and the alternative hip-hop backlash.
Jasiri X has created music addressing social and political issues, including his 2007 song "Free the Jena 6", [2] "Trayvon" following George Zimmerman's killing of Trayvon Martin in February 2012, [9] "Do We Need to Start a Riot?" [10] and "What if the Tea Party was Black?" [11] [12] He encouraged other hip-hop artists to engage these concerns ...
The vulnerable project also defies norms in how it dismisses the hip-hop paradigm that tends to confine female hip-hop to either pussy rap or conscious rap — as if both sides of the spectrum and ...
It encourages DJs and MCs to teach people about the culture of hip-hop and to write more socially conscious songs, and radio stations to play more socially conscious hip-hop. KRS-One describes hip-hop as a metaphysical principle, "an energy, a consciousness, it is an awareness, it is a behavior, it is an attitude, that's what hip-hop is.
From DJ Kool Herc and The Last Poets to Prophets of Da City and Mode 9, here’s how African history has influenced hip-hop – and vice-versa – 50 years after the genre was born.