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Tony Cross from Smash Hits gave 'Give It Up' a full score of five out of five and named it Best New Single, writing, "'Give It Up' is about destruction on the street: fighting for self-respect and unity against the evils of crack and gratuitous gun violence. This could only be carried off in such a homie party style by a band as masterly as this.
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 ]
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Gangsta rap songs (59 C, 186 P) M. ... Pages in category "Songs about violence" The following 27 pages are in this category ...
Shemekia Copeland's latest song, "When Pink Turns to Red," is about the prevalence of gun violence in the United States and is nominated for a Grammy. Mom's blues album with a song about mass ...
The song signifies the Jamaican tradition of a gun salute as a show of respect to the men on the mic. Def Jam / RAL director of A&R Traci Waples says, "The phrase isn't about violence; it's a way to salute hip-hop".
In August 2004, the song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart. [2] With the tagline "The gun is the tool, the mind is the weapon", in this track the band satirised the perceived link between American hip hop and gun violence, referencing several rap murders.
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Further inspired by the recent murder of fellow BDP founding member Scott La Rock, he assembled many contemporary East Coast hip hop rap stars of the time to record a song about anti-violence. With production assistance by bandmate D-Nice and Hank Shocklee of the Bomb Squad , the product of the session was the chart-topping song "Self Destruction".