In Drugs, Inc. Season 7, Episode 2: Hip Hop High the connections between drugs, drugs sales, and raps as a quote from the film is, “Hip Hop without drugs don’t exist.” (N.A, 2015) The main reason why Hip Hop cannot live without drugs is that it creates money to help many Hip Hop careers. Most artists in the hood don’t have the money to buy equipment or studio time, so they used drug money to fund their music. Rappers are using the drugs, selling drugs, but also sing about drugs. It then comes full circle when the people attending shows get sold pills or dope. The drugs become a way for artists to enhance their careers and get out of the hood. Another reason is that it creates a connection between the rapper and their audiences, where they are …show more content…
The never-ending conflict of Mexico’s drug war has led to the rise of this pop culture narcocorridos. The horrifying news of the cartel war reflected in a controversial music genre of narcocorridos. The lyrics are glorifying the violent crimes and drugs. Narcocorridos differ from the rap because it does not only focus on drugs and money. Narcocorridos talk about family in depth, they also talk about the role they play in this type of life, but the difference here is that these Narcos use other artists to have them create the music for …show more content…
It became an anthem where everyone will sing it, embrace it, and be influenced by it. People take pride in being associated with the Cartel and listening to this music is one way of promoting that lifestyle. This trend is becoming a social norm in the Latino population, the way these teens behavior strongly influenced by narcocorridos. Narcocorridos music with messages of violence, drug use, organized crime, etc. can desensitize and make it seem reasonable for adolescents. The people who chanted it as an anthem may not have a clue about how savage and brutal the Cartel is. There are no civilians in Cartel vocabulary because everyone can be the target and them willing to killing the innocent to get what they want. According to Narco Cultura, death is everywhere, and people who affiliate in Narco died every day. It happens so often that the people feel somewhat numb about it. The government cannot do much about the situation, even they trying hard. It is crazy how Narcocorrido’s music turns into the daily report, where people who listen to it because of it faster updates. Everyone can be the target, and the words civilians are not in the vocab. They will kill and can kill anyone who to making sure their message was clear and loud. They have no holdback, and they have access and the power to do that. The people, the government and law enforcement are scare of the cartel.
Another reason why narco corridos are an influence to society is their disrespect towards women, since the genre of music is about glorifying drugs and illegal money, artists tend to sing about luxuries cars parties and they also make women seem like an object that can be bought by their illegal activities. In narco corrido videos there is always more than one women half naked dancing around a man that thinks he deserves it all. It has always been around that women back then would do whatever their husband would tell them to do even if men would go around with other women, well narco corridos try to bring the message back of men having more than one women and just showing off the money they have living a criminal life. This attitude going on
I grew up in a Mexican family listening to corridos, which are a type of song, since at every party, every celebration, and every occasion, that’s what the family would play. As I became more aware and conscious, I began to realize what these songs were actually saying. These corridos were telling a life story, ranging from life issues such as poverty, hard times, immigration, social and political problems, and/or life in general. A prominent and recurring theme that I saw developing throughout was immigration. Many of these songs, were expressing strong feelings that many Mexican immigrants, including my parents and other family members, were feeling regarding they’re citizenship status, how they were being discriminated against, and ultimately how they were feeling.
The sound of music can fulfil someone's ears with the rhythm of the beat or the sweet tone of the melody. Some people enjoy music with a little more “experience.” Rock, rap, and heavy metal are examples of music genres that has a reputation of using drugs to enhance the experience of the music. One other common music genre that has a reputation of drugs is EDM. Electronic Dance Music. It is a type of music typically created by using electronic devices, like a laptop, generated by a person with some talent. This music genre is known for it’s “club drugs” like ecstasy, methanamine, or magic mushrooms. (“CRC Health”) Some people use drugs at raves to “enhance” the experience and also people have tried or are trying to push the usage of drugs at rave to a certain that you can take. Many people want more security checks at raves so they can reduce the injuries and deaths at raves.
Drugs seem to be an issue everywhere. Just like alcohol, the drug trade is not a primary issue for one race. Drugs serve a heavy impact to all those involved. Drugs are not just reserved to those that use them, but also to the manufacturers and distributors of the drugs. An excerpt from Anderson (1990) involves a former dealer describing the drug culture. He states, “The way I see it, there’s top dogs, middle dogs, and low dogs. The top dogs are the guys with the money, dudes with the cars…the middle dogs are the ones who sell drugs for the top dogs…and they sell it to the low dogs” (p. 7). However, it does not stop there. Drugs also affect the family and friends of those involved. Many residing within areas centered on drugs often times express feelings of anxiety and fear. Wacquant (2007) states that petty theft, drug use, the resale of stolen goods, vandalism, and alcoholism are the most visible form of delinquency (p. 208).
In the article, Tanz uses examples, advertisements, commercials, symbols, quotes, and other facts to make his argument clear. One of the reasons he gives to back up his claim is by saying that, “ It is an industry that seems to thrive by tapping into our deepest fears, insecurities, anxieties, and aspirations” (87-88). Furthermore, he is saying that hip-hop is used to get into one 's mind and affecting one 's mood and/or
Rap music from the 1990’s to the year 2000 is known in hip hop as “the golden era”. This era is all about individuality and innovation of creating music in one of the newest musical art forms. Rap music started out as the expression of young black youths in the inner city of New York. Rap music is rhymed storytelling accompanied by highly rhythmic, electronically based music. It began in the mid-1970s in the South Bronx in New York City as a part of hip hop, composed of graffiti, breakdancing, and rap music. From the outset, rap music has articulated the pleasures and problems of black urban life in contemporary America. Rappers speak with the voice of personal experience, taking on the identity of the observer or narrator. Rap music has lost a lot of it purity and essence due to the multimillion dollar business. Rap music is always critizied because of it’s violent and sexual nature but its just reporting what is views in this cold world.(Rose, 1994)
Mexico’s drugs wars as well as bloody drug cartels are echoed in a controversial folk music genre commonly known as narco corridos or simply as drug ballads. They tell the stories allied to shootouts, drug lords, betrayals including daring criminal operations. Narco corridos are not a new style in Mexican music, in fact, they have been around for years, and they are popular among the old and the young. This genre has evolved to be modern fugitive music that fuses the emotional responses of antique ballads with the tense gravel of mobster rap. From global idols to rural artists documenting their neighborhood current events in the regions subjugated by guerilla war, narco corridos provides the songwriters in their homes with unique but artistic superiority, investigating the heartland of the infamous Mexican drug trafficking as well as publicizing municipal midpoints such as Los Angeles, in addition to Mexico City.
They got caught up in a shootout between two gangs. Politicians and Ministers were quick to point the finger at today’s music. influencing gun crime in the U.S. The minister for tourism said, ‘The hateful. lyrics almost connote a culture killing is a fashion accessory”.
The lyrics that the rapper spit out has an impact on the community. The people who listen to rap listen to it and try do these illegal stuff in the street and get arrested by the police. This also impacted the African community by the police racially identifying them because they think they’re going to some illegal stuff. The type of rap Rappers are publishing in the 90’s made the police almost hate the whole Black community. Rap groups such as N.W.A had the worst by getting in trouble with the police almost all the type at concerts, crossing the street, in their own house and even in front of their own houses the police has to racially identify you if you’re doing anything
Hip Hop began in the 1970's in the United States in that time it was not popular, but over the years it becomes more popular. Young people hear this music often because of lyrics or videos image. The new hip hop music typically portrays women as an object where a man can control a woman. Also, have violence and the style of hip-hop music have changed to obtain more money.
References to illegal drugs use in rap music jumped sixfold in the two decades since 1979. Previously, rap music was more likely to depict dangers
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Sorrondeguy spent his childhood. The band’s messages focus on the problems effecting Latin Americans both in the United States and abroad. Sorrondeguy explains: “We wanted to communicate with other ki ds and with people in our neighborhood about things that were effecting us” (qtd.
As one moves past the initial onslaught of rhythmic beats that calypso has to offer, it is difficult to miss the way in which it reverberates with negative and demoralizing images of women to their male counterparts. Whether it is within the lyrics of Sparrow’s “Drunk and Disorderly” or Square One’s “My Ding-a Ling”, an ample number of verses are often dedicated to making lewd comments about the female body and the suggestive body language described through thinly veiled rhymes and puns, can be offensive depending on the listener. The half naked models being displayed on the various album covers of calypso, soca and rap mix tapes further reinforces these negative connotations. This bandwagon has been jumped upon by many, including the rap genre in the last two decades, wanting to capitalize on a marketing strategy that generally purports to flag consumer attention, playing on their sense of eroticism. The sections titled “Music, Sex, Sexism” and “Woman Rising” within Peter Manuel’s text: Caribbean Currents, dive into the many issues surrounding gender within music as well as female portrayal specifically in calypso. Observations can be made simply by reading through the textual comparisons. Many aspects of this subject area allude to the fact that the issue of gender portrayal in music can be construed differently depending on who the critical listener happens to be. With the increased awareness and heightened sensitivity to the way in which females are portrayed in popular media, it is important to reflect on the impact these lyrics have on male-female relationships within the communities who most often enjoy this music genre.
Hip-hop music is portrayed by an entertainer rapping over a track that regularly comprises of loops or specimens of other music woven together (Selke INT). Hip-hop originally appeared in the Bronx around the 1970s and steadily turned into the predominant mainstream music structure by the 1990s, representing a multi-billion dollar industry today (Selke INT). Hip-hop music can additionally have some positive impacts. For example, its verbal imagination can motivate audience members to play with dialect, and acknowledge musicality and rhyme (Selke INT). Just like poetry, hip-hop can be a way of expressing oneself.