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HOME  CULTURE Where is Rap going?
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Many rappers primarily focus is now
on creating chorus’s and
hooks for ringtones to go gold, platinum and even multi-platinum. Why
make great a song when you only need thirty seconds to sell out?
BROTHERS AND SISTERS - I DON'T KNOW WHAT THIS RAP IS COMING TO...
"BOBBY'S HAPPY HOUSE RECORDS"
Rap began as a voice for the unheard. In the beginning of hip-hop everyone strived to be
different
but now everyone is doing what sells.
GRANDMIXER D.ST IS WORKING
NEGRIL 7th AVENUE HARLEM 12th STREET FLYER 1982
It is now quantity over quality
and no one will take
responsibility. Look at the state of our community because our young
people are now aspiring to become thugs and video “models”.
DOUBLE TROUBLE IN THE "DANCETERIA"
HARLEM 146th STREET PARTY FLYER IN 1983
We
have not made positive strides as we have done in previous years.
Please kids, take care of that art form and learn to speak before you
talk. I know very well that today and in the future, strong,
intelligent characters will defense a sense through knowledge. Hip hop is
very much alive.
YOUNG GRANDMASTER FLASH ROCKING AT BROADWAY INTERNATIONAL
"I hope that one day we gonna work it out, brothers and sisters"!
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Patricia often creates acutely aesthetic and appealing works as a means of discussing complex ethical issues. She is also fascinated by the mechanisms of consumer culture. Read on to see the strange, half-human creatures entitled "The Young Family".
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Yves Tanguy was inspired to make art by the inner world of dreams and the subconscious mind. Rather than reflecting the external world, this painting combines realism with fantasy and mystery in an expression of a private experience.
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