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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.
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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]
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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.
Speech of Arrested Development looks back on 30 years of rap: making a breakthrough album, writing "Tennessee" and the alternative hip-hop backlash. How this 'bittersweet truth' launched rap icons ...
Cole's third album 2014 Forest Hills Drive was the first conscious hip hop album (and one of the first hip hop albums) to go double platinum without any features from other artists. [32] Throughout his career, J. Cole's music has taken a more conscious tone, most notably on his 2017 album KOD , which features anti-drug themes, "Once an Addict ...