When I lived in Dakar in the summer of 1997, so may young people asked me if I knew Tupac Shakur. His impact on Hip-hop circulated around the world.
The image of the late Tupac Shakur's virtual hologram performance at Coachella 2012 posted here speaks to the transformative power of Hip-hop.
As you post examples of Hip-hop from around the world this week, think about why people from around the world connect
to the music and culture? How does Hip-hop function as a shared language of freedom?
According to author Usama Kahf of “Arabic Hip-hop: Claims of Authenticity and Identity of a New Genre”, hip-hop has the “capacity to empower marginalized people [and] circumvent the constraints on expression…imposed upon them by various social structures and regimes of communication” (120). Kahf’s statement proposes that hip-hop can function as a voice to the voiceless and as a powerful tool in engaging a disheartened and, oftentimes, ignorant society. Expanding far beyond the boundaries of the United States, as demonstrated in Kahf’s writings of hip-hop’s influence in the Middle East, these similar messages of struggle and strife in hip-hop operate only to further break lines of disconnect as its impact continues to expand.
ReplyDeleteW.E.B. Du Bois believed in a concept known as second sight which Andrew Bartlett paraphrases to be a “process by which the ‘minority’ knows the majority not only better than the obverse, but often better than the ‘majority’ knows itself”, and “while ‘literate’ hip-hop culture is a stereotype at a certain point, it is so because Western culture(s) have largely fetishized reading as a function solely of print and the sole model of learning and subsequent actionality” (565-566). Reading extends beyond these bounds as we learn what is means to read with all our senses—hearing, touching, and feeling the pulsations of what it means to live and interact with those around us. Hip-hop captures this essence of seeking the real verses the ideal and finding truth beneath the falsehoods as we look towards minority cultures for answers conflated by majority cultures.
http://www.racialicious.com/2009/05/12/how-do-we-view-global-hip-hop-culture-series-introduction-on-cultural-appropriation/
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting article about how hip-hop has continued to expand itself globally. The article includes videos of popular songs from different countries and artists around the world. From reading this article and watching some of the videos, I was able to gain further insight into how hip-hop has impacted different countries and performers.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/04/hip-hop-planet/mcbride-text
ReplyDeleteI found this article and thought it related perfectly to this weeks topic of Hip-hop on the international scale. It mentions that the origins of Hip-hop in other countries were similar to that of the United States. It also goes in depth into the features of Hip-hop culture in other countries.
For my final freestyle blog, I wanted to write about how hip hop has influenced other genres of music. Now, I really like hip hop, but my favorite genre of music is actually country music. I love listening to Tim McGraw, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood. Country music really tells it like it is. Lately, I have noticed that some country artists have incorporated hip hop into their songs/lyrics.
ReplyDeleteCountry music singer Toby Keith is known throughout the world. His song "Red Solo Cup" is very similar to the song "Sharpie Solo Cup" by a young hispanic Hip Hop artist named Carlton Zeus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Q9_kQdyZg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKZqGJONH68&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9BTTacuJRdU6i3MS3My-wnT
Also, country singer Jason Aldean has come together with Ludacris to write Aldean's song "Dirt Road Anthem". "Dirt Road Anthem" is a mid-tempo song, recognized as country rap. At 2011 CMT Music Awards, Aldean performed the song with Ludacris, who joined Aldean onstage after the second chorus to perform his own hip hop-style second verse. This may be the first time I've seen a country singer and rapper collaborate for a song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNGbi0iQZVw&feature=related
Jason Aldean also did a remix of his song, "She's Country" with hip hop artist Finesse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tos8Fl6ehNs
Overall, I think elements of hip hop can be found in various music genres worldwide. This class has brought me a new appreciation for hip hop culture and more respect for hip hop artists that I may have misunderstood in the past. I really enjoyed it and hope whenever I listen to hip hop music from now on, I'll better appreciate it.
I never noticed the impact Hip hop had around the world. Slowly after learning about how global hip hop is I started looking up recent Indian videos, boy, did I see a change. India is also adapting the hip hop style by that I mean the video I have posted shows the use of stereotypical hip hop fashion and the use of women. The video to a complete 360 than traditional Indian videos, but I must say Hip hop is making a great impact.
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Hip-hops reach is global and still expanding into the nooks and crannies of the world. We could tell from b-boy week that hip-hop was going to be global just because dancers sample take various moves from around the world.
ReplyDeleteThis is a great article!!
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/05/hip-hop%E2%80%99s-global-reach/
This is a music video of a group, "Los Rakas", that my Spanish teacher brought up a couple years ago in class and I found it very interesting that obviously the lyrics were in Spanish, but they showed a lot of American culture within their video. They show a sign of Brooklyn, they are wearing hats of American baseball teams, an "Oaktown" shirt. I really liked this video with all of the cool graffiti in the background.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0pyDhMt0Es
ReplyDeleteThis music video is titled Japanese Hip-hop 2010 on YouTube. I was researching other culture’s and their relation to hip-hop and I found this one most interesting because it is amazing to think how the Japanese language can have “flow” and resemble elements of hip-hop in their music and music videos. In this video, it is evident that the flat-bill hats and bright colors (self-adornment) have spread to this side of the world’s hip-hop culture. Also, there is graffiti evident in the video but it is different symbols and has a more paint-brush appearance. I had no idea what this song was saying, but an interesting note was the main MC’s shirt said, “drugs, sex and homework.” I wonder if they even know what that means.
From the article we read, “authenticity is also the goal of artists who start up new genres of music or make a revolutionary innovation in their society” (Forman and Neal p121). So Japanese hip-hop as an emergence has historical base in imitation of other cultures. It is globalization that spreads this trend. A seminal moment for hip-hop in Japan was the showing of the film "Wild Style" (Dir. Charlie Ahearn) in Tokyo in the fall of 1983 (http://web.mit.edu/condry/www/jhh/). Break-dancers and then DJs take the scene. Rapping was slower because of the challenge with flow and rhythm, but Japanese youth have caught on to the global hip-hop movement. Hip-hop embodies and extends African-American rhythmic tendencies in its continued sampling throughout hip-hop today. “The evolution of American popular culture happens with African American culture at its hub”(Forman and Neal p575). It is amazing to see how hip-hop has spread and expanded throughout the world and how different cultures have adapted to it and adjusted it.
I have noticed that hip-hop has had an influence on other genres of music, such as country. One of my favorite songs by Jason Aldean, "Dirt Road Anthem" has hip-hop within it.
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After watching the numerous YouTube references, some of the M.I.A videos were my favorites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y
http://www.indigenoushiphop.com/about.html
ReplyDeleteIndigenous Hip-Hop Projects is an organization that travels to Aboriginal communities around Australia "to fuse traditional Indigenous culture with hip hop", "promote self expression", "strengthen community development", and "provide opportunities in remote regional and urban areas".
This project shows how hip-hop can be used as a way to preserve a people's history and to tell their story to a global audience.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRraAQ-VgvQ&feature=related
ReplyDeleteThis is a song that was in a "Bollywood" movie, The reason why I choose it was because Snoop did a ft. in it. I have noticed that the Indian/Pakistani culture is starting to incorporate hip-hop culture with their culture, this song being a prime example of that.
http://karola-kruse.suite101.com/global-hip-hip-a163296
ReplyDeleteThis article talks about different areas of the globe and what they rap about and popular artists in those countries.
The video that i am posting is a song done by a Japanese DJ named Nujabes. This video shows that some hip-hop in japan is very peaceful and brings out the Japanese culture. This shows a different feel of hip-hop over in Japan.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC6jxukeL64
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3324409.stm
ReplyDeleteI came across this article “Japan Grows It’s Own Hip-Hop” from 2003 highlighting the rise of a hip- hop influenced culture in Japan. It talks about how hip- hop was always played in underground nightclubs but at the time Tokyo rap artists were starting to emerge. A record store manager talks about how he believes this popularity has come from Japan’s mature lyrics. American’s rap about “guns and violence” which isn’t the topic of Japanese artists who seem to have a more poetic style depicting their everyday lives. It’s just crazy to me how the influence of Hip- hop is not only in the United States but has spread throughout the world. We have only been talking about Hip- hop in popular culture here and it would probably take numerous semesters to cover it worldwide. This class has really helped me appreciate the world of Hip- hop much more. I’ve always liked the music but never really knew where the artists were coming from or why they were saying what they were saying. Now, I am much more knowledgeable about all that goes into Hip- hop culture and I regret not ever knowing it before because it’s all so fascinating.
Probably one of my favorite groups of all time is the Gorillaz. They incorporate so many different Global genres, musical styles, and cultures in their music. Plus, their whole discography and project is intricately creative.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdhbp_JHcI&feature=related
Plus who would do this at the Apollo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-eDqgNdQic&feature=relmfu
http://www.asianhiphoptimes.com/index.html
ReplyDeleteI was looking around the internet for something that would really depict how global hip-hop is. This website has different blogs produced by a Canadian about different Asian cultures and how hip-hop is seen and produced in different countries. I watched a couple of the videos and it was very interesting to see the differences in American hip-hop and other countries, but there are also a lot of similarities. It is clear that hip-hop has made it's way into most cultures.
This is one of my favorite Israeli Rap groups called Subliminal. This is a pretty popular song that almost everyone knows if they know Subliminal:
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Here is a link to a blog entitled "Hip Hop Heard 'Round the World," one of many online sources for Global Hip Hop
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This entry focuses on MC Solaar, one of France's earliest rappers. Here is one of my favorite MC Solaar videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDuPwIGq3Nw
It's very French.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inn4juu0Cfs
ReplyDeleteThe artist is Iggy Azalea, A white, australian female rapper. This song is one of my favorites.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgFyi74DVjc&ob=av3n
ReplyDeleteThis was Tinie Tempah's second single to make number one in the charts in the UK, which is where he's from. He samples of alot of GUnit, and as many artists always talk about when they first start rapping, he talks about his struggles and how he overcame them to get where he is today.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3324409.stm
ReplyDeleteI read an article on BBC News that talked about the spread of American urban hip hop culture to Japan, more specifically Tokyo. The article also states how Japan's hip hop scene formally underground, is now making its way to the mainstream with Japan's own "home-grown" rappers. Not only is the music spreading throughout Japan but the clothing and style as well. It is very interesting to see how American Culture, especially urban hip hop culture affects other nations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ugzH94FXk
ReplyDeleteThis is Collie Buddz. He is a Jamaican reggae/rapper. He gets a lot of his influences from American Hip-hop but he also has his own sound.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTDfr9bVVyM&feature=related
ReplyDeleteI really liked this song before Enrique Iglesias remixed it, but now I think it's fabulous. This class has helped me to broaden my horizon to new types of music and artists, but more importantly to see the importance and impact hip-hop has had over the years. Thank You!
I never actually realized how big of an impact hip hop has around the world. I found this article to be quite interesting. Really shows you a different side of the world.
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Reggae and Dancehall are influential factors in the very foundation of Hip-hop. Many of the pioneering DJs of Hip-hop had strong Jamaican ties and influences, so in that sense, Hip-hop has always had an international presence. Beenie Man is one reggae artist who has been hugely successful on the Jamaican music scene and enjoyed some mainstream success in the U.S as well.
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2005: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zeb297mQQzw&ob=av2n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9573kGBtuE
ReplyDeleteThese two little girls from England are obsessed with Nicki Minaj, and they're only 4 and 6 (I believe)! To me this represented the idea of hip-hop's global impact as well as it's emersion into popular culture. I thought it was a very good example for how hip-hop has impacted various groups and cultures around the world and seeping into the mainstream.
When thinking about hip-hop and how it effects people globally, Honey Cocaine came to my mind. Honey Cocaine (real name Solchitta Sal) is of Cambodian descent, born and raised in Toronto, Canada before being discovered on YouTube by Tyga and joined LastKings. She is an asian female rapper and she reps it.
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A male icon that is well known all around the world is Wiz Khalifa. He actually lived in the UK when he was little for a couple years. He has done multiple concerts in the UK, London, and Amsterdam. He is highly praised and has set a standard for weed consumption.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldpSgpVlil4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2emq-PC8wE&feature=related
The hologram of Tupac is still awesome to watch.
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One of my favorites from across the border.
Hip hop is linked no matter where it is made. They all have the same stand points and trying to get their story across and heard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbUBMklQSVU&ob=av2e
ReplyDeleteSean Paul – “She Doesn’t Mind”
Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques is the perfect example of hip-hop from around the world because he is very popular artist who was born and raised in Kingston Jamaica. The reason why people from around the world connect to the music and culture of hip-hop because of the same reasons why so many people were able to connect the genre in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APw9ES0JpZo
ReplyDeleteThis link is to K'Naan's song called Take a Minute. He was born in Somalia and has succeeded in becoming a singer/rapper/songwriter/musician and more. He has collaborated with many artists from the U.S. including Will I Am from the Blackeyed Peas in Wavin' Flag.
I believe that people from around the world find a connection with hip-hop becaue it serves as a space for self expression. Hip-hop speaks especially to those who are from underprivileged or oppressed communities because that is where hip-hop derived from. Oppression and the decay of the inner-cities and the unjust treatment of the people who inhabit the inner-cities is what drove hip-hop to be such a powerful influence on today's society. Many times people in these circumstances don't have a way to speak out and address the issues they experience and with hip-hop they have a place to do that, and even going a step further they have a place where they can achieve that by any approach or style they choose.
Thought this article about a South Korean "K-Pop" group was really cool. It talks about not needing mainstream America to build a hip hop reputation, and how selling out shows in Asia can be more profitable. At the same time the girls were excited to be on Late Night, an American show. Just another example of hip-hop crossing borders.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/MUS-KPOP_7889061/MUS-KPOP_7889061/
http://youtu.be/Ic5vxw3eijY
ReplyDeleteEstelle (Feat. Kanye West) - American Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmlpkoJZWYg
ReplyDeleteThis video shows the winning dance group of the Hip Hop Internationals' Dance Championships. It's an all female group from New Zealand, and it shows the reach of hip-hop dance.