By Rashad Brown


When 1 examines the dress of the 'Hip Hop' culture it's quite evident that 1 main factor affecting the dress of this subculture has been their dances. Regardless of whether the dancer was doing 'break' moves, 'electric boogie' moves, or 'free style' moves loose fitting clothing was a prerequisite to be able to do these moves.

Also, comfy shoes would be necessary, and sneakers appear to have filled this need to have. 1 only requirements to look at what are students enjoy to wear to see the validity in the statements concerning dress made above. A question could arise about why young male students wear their pants hanging down by their hips.

This certain way of wearing pants didn't create out of the hip hop dances. Several young individuals who dress in this way aren't familiar with the origins of this style. However, the style came from prisoners. However, there is a high percentage of young minorities that are incarcerated at some point in their life. When behind these locked doors prison officials normally eliminate inmates' belts for obvious reasons.

Sadly, a huge proportion of young minority individuals devote time in jail while nonetheless really young. The prisons have a regular of denying prisoners their belts as these are generally employed in suicides. Because prisoners do not have belts, they would be forced to wear their pants low as they had absolutely nothing to secure them with. When returned to their properties, the prisoners adopted this as a trend and made it common.

This style became popular with young males without having their realizing they had been emulating a style that had originated in prison. I by no indicates am implying that if these young males had identified the origin of this style that this style would not have turn out to be so popular. If one talks to any 1 who has been incarcerated they'll substantiate the truth that this style has been in prisons for numerous years.

At this point in my unit I would like to examine the rap music business today. Even though rap is proportionally much more common among blacks, its primary audience is white and lives within the suburbs based on David Samuels in his write-up in the November 11, 1991 issue of "The New Republic."

The write-up was titled "The Rap on Rap: the 'Black Music' that Isn't Either". Samuels attempts to substantiate this reality by revealing that the number 1 selling record in 1991 based on Billboard Magazine was Niggaz4life, a celebration of gang rape along with other violence by the group N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude).

At that time, Billboard magazine had started a more precise way of counting the number of record sales. This was completed by utilizing bar codes that exactly where then scanned each and every time a record was sold. This was a significantly easier and a lot more precise method than based on record stores to accurately declare their numbers of sold records.

Inside the same article, the author argued that rappers who were marketed as violent black law-breakers had been popular using the white audience. The much more a black artist is perceived to be dangerous, the a lot more attractive they will be to the white audience. It is not easy to have the ability to figure out and explain why this image or perception appeals to the white audience. Suffice it to say that they are most almost certainly attracted by the unknown, or thrilling aspect that's frowned upon by their community.




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