Christopher Wallace as known as Biggie Smalls was born on May 21, 1972. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in the neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant. Biggie later became known. He experienced a rough childhood at an early age. He was surrounded by drug addicts and dealers. By his early teens, biggie had joined the life that was all around them. He once said, “Hustlers were my heroes” At the age of seventeen, Biggie was arrested for selling crack, and spent nine months in a North Carolina Prison before making bail. After, biggie started making music. He went with a crew called the “Old Gold Brothers”, and then began experimenting on his own. Around his neighborhood, Biggie Smalls began building a reputation as a musician under that name. After a tape landed in the hands of a well-known DJ as Mister Cee, Biggie was featured in the hip hop industry. Later on Biggie Smalls went by the name The Notorious B.I.G. In 1993 he appeared on one of Mary J Blige’s song “Real Love” and followed up with a second song with Mary J Blige called “What’s the 411.” His debut as a solo artist came with the single, "Party and Bullsh*t," on the soundtrack to the film, “Who’s the Man?” In 1994, The Notorious B.I.G. released his debut album, Ready to Die, which told the story of his life, from drug dealer to rapper. The record went platinum and he became a full-fledged star. The songs that were very popular were “Juicy” and “Big Poppa.” The same year, “The Source” named the rapper “Best New Artist, Best live Performer, and Lyricist of the Year.” As his star power increased, Biggie did his best to share his skills. He backed the work of several rappers that he'd originally performed with while starting out in Brooklyn, and took to the studio in support of o... ... middle of paper ... ...as just right when he was going to put out his 2nd album called “Life after Death.” When they released this album after he had died, it was a very big hit. Over seven hundred thousand copies were bought. Two years later another album of his was released called “Born Again.” This album was unreleased material by him. Later on they decided to release another album called “Duets: The Final Chapter” in 2005. In 2002, a filmmaker named Nick Broomfield released a documentary called “Biggie and Tupac” He interviewed many people, friends and family and asked how they felt about their death, how they lived there lives, etc. Today Biggie is still admired by many people even though his isn’t here anymore. People still listen to his music around the world. Several artists dedicate songs to him while performing on stage. Many artists are still inspired by him to this day.
Torrence Hatch (Lil Boosie) was born November 14, 1982 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was born and raised in W. Garfield St, on the south side of Baton Rouge, a neighborhood well known for drugs and violence. Boosie faced many troubles inside and outside for school as he was growing up. When Boosie was 14, he moved in with his grandmother after his father was murdered in a drug-related activity. He then started to get very serious about basketball, he played in order to stay off of the streets, he was expected to go to college level, but then got expelled for possession of illegal drugs. Boosie had been rapping since he was 14 or 15, but never let anyone know because he didn’t think he was good enough, but after he was expelled, he began to get very serious about his music career. Unfortunately, Baton Rouge lacked a music scene, so it was difficult for him to create a contract, which resulted in a lack of exposure. But lucky for Lil Boosie, a mutual friend of Boosie and a local rapper, C-Loc, introduced the two and before Boosie knew it, he was recording his homemade raps in a p...
Every hip-hop/rap generation a lot new fresh upcoming aspiring rappers who wishes to go down in hip-hop culture as one of the greatest. Some of them are merely one hit wonders; others go on to silicify their mark in the Hip-Hop culture becoming great artists. In the year 2006 the hip-hop world was introduced to a future superstar by the named of Lupe Fiasco. Lupe Fiasco has become one of hip-hop fastest rising superstar ever since releasing his first album. Although many listeners find some of his music very controversial, yet Fiasco is one of the few artists whose music teaches people about current events that the world has turned the blind eye to, and Lupe lyrical trickster, story teller.
Tupac has brought his fans together with his music, poetry and acting. But this dead or alive dilemma has split these fans into two groups. Those who believe he is still alive and believe he has faked his death. The others are the ones who believe he has lived, and has lived well but is now at peace.
time. He was planning another concert when he died July 6, 1971. Louis’s death was
Billy Joel was born on May 9, 1949 in Bronx, New York. He moved at the age of four to a small town on Long Island. This is where at the ripe age of four he discovered the art of music. Originally a classical music fan, Billy Joel honed his skills with classical piano training. This undoubtedly has had a major influence on his life and certainly his music. Growing up Joel was a big fan of such greats as Ray Charles, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Otis Reading. He was greatly persuaded into a career of music when he saw the Beatles perform on the Ed Sullivan Show. Amusingly Joel's first band was inspired by the uncanny opportunity to meet girls. The band was called The Echoes, but this was not the best of times for Joel because his parents were involved in a messy divorce, which included serious financial shortcomings. Joel even began working professional music gigs at night to help support his mother. Joel's schoolwork suffered a little and he began missing school way too often. He was subsequently not allowed to graduate with his high school class due to the number of absences. After high school Joel immediately joined a very popular band called The Hassels for which he recorded two albums with. Within two years Joel was on to a new band which he named Attila, and featured heavy metal drummer Jon Small who he played with during his time with The Hassels. Despite the previous release of two albums Joel still needed to bring in more money so he worked many music related jobs and gigs. He even wrote a rock and roll criticism piece in a weekly column for a magazine.
On a lighter note, he explains his inspirations for his dream of making music in the song ‘Juicy.’ Biggie’s writing went in depth to show his audience where he came from and to also inspire other artists working their way up in the music industry. Lastly, Kendrick Lamar’s piece Good Kid m.A.A.d City is a coming of age story from the perspective of teenage Kendrick living in Compton, California. This album shows the dark side of Kendrick’s life, as well as his lighter moments of aspiration. There are vivid depictions of violence that he endured as a teen, as well as the influence of money and power.
First of all he calls the woman in the song, a bitch. It starts off with a skit and in this skit with the few lines it contains, the woman is completely disrespected because she does not provide the answer that was he wanted to hear. The script is “Yo let—let—let me ask you a question yo / Yo, would you kill for me? / Hmmm... yeah / What took you so long to answer motherfucker? / I don't know / The fuck wrong with you bitch?” he later on raps “And I admit, when the time is right, the wine is right / I treat you right, you talk slick, I beat you right / Just me and my bitch, me and my bitch.” Biggie says he beats his partner anytime she says something he does not like which promotes physical and emotional abuse to the people that listen to his music. People will think there is no problem with putting there hands on their partner cause Bigge does it. Biggie sends out the wrong type of message to people about how they should treat their partner in a
Through all his family and education issues, he stood up to become a well-known hip-hop artist according to his history background. He released a couple albums and then was offered to be in some movies. He made some songs and music videos with them that made it big on the Billboard charts. For example, in these movies and albums called, “Power respect Juice” (1992), “Bullet”(1996), “Gang Related” (1997), “all eyez on me”(1996),”Greatest Hits”(1998), and “Until the end of time”(2001), according to all these released, he won prizes from music and artist industry, people can recognize him. Tupac has become rich and famous and he is not showing off his own style.
Rapping was a key component as Pitbull grew up and he drew his creativity from popular rappers like Nas and Big Pun. His first big musical break was with the popular movie series “2 Fast 2 Furious” where his song “Oye” was the theme song of the entire movie. This achievement was extremely important to Pitbull’s future rapping career because many people watched this movie series and by having this song be the theme it instantly gained him fame. From this movie he signed on with TVT records and made his first album called M.I.A.M.I. In the years following this album release, Pitbull made three more albums all of which were very successful. Pitbull became a prominent rapper and this career lead to many other accomplishments that were to come.
Due to his creativity and eagerness to spread music around, Louis Armstrong was the most influential trumpet to ever play jazz. As jazz unwound and people started to lose interest in the emotional music of Duke Ellington and Count Basie, the influence of the famous musicians decreased. However, traces still reign in modern day society in young people who play in jazz bands in their schools, and older jazz bands that play for a living. As the famous movie Sandlot said, “Heros get remembered, but legends never die.” I do not think that Louis Armstrong through his great memory has died yet today.
Dr. Dre (b. Andre Young, February 18, 1965) became involved in hip-hop during the early '80s, performing at house parties and clubs with the World Class Wreckin' Cru around South Central Los Angeles, and making a handful of recordings along the way. In 1986, he met Ice Cube, and the two rappers began writing songs for Ruthless Records, a label started by former drug pusher Eazy-E. Eazy tried to give one of the duo's songs, "Boyz N the Hood," to HBO, a group signed to Ruthless. When the group refused, Eazy formed N.W.A. -- an acronym for Niggaz With Attitude -- with Dre and Cube, releasing their first album in 1987. A year later, N.W.A. delivered Straight Outta Compton, a vicious hardcore record that became an underground hit with virtually no support from radio, the press or MTV. N.W.A. became notorious for their hardcore lyrics, especially those of "Fuck tha Police," which resulted in the FBI sending a warning letter to Ruthless and its parent company Priority, suggesting that the group should watch their step.
Negus, Keith. "The Business of Rap: Between the Street and the Executive Suite." Rpt. in That’s the Joint!: The Hip-Hop Studies Reader. Ed. Murray Forman and Mark Anthony Neal. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004. 525-540. Print.
--Topic Sentence--Tupac and Biggie both were born in New York, spending their early years there. Tupac was primarily from the East Harlem section of Manhattan New York City, New York, but he moved multiple times in his youth. Tupac moved to Baltimore,
From its conception in the 1970's and throughout the 1980's, hip hop was a self-contained entity within the community that created it. This means that all the parameters set for the expression came from within the community and that it was meant for consumption by the community. Today, the audience is from outside of the community and doesn’t share the same experiences that drive the music. An artists’ success hinges on pleasing consumers, not the community. In today's world, it isn’t about music that rings true for those who share the artists' experiences, but instead, music that provides a dramatic illusion for those who will never share the experiences conveyed. This has radically changed the creative process of artists and the diversity of available music. Most notably, it has called in to question the future of hip hop.
It is known that his fame is compared to Notorious B.I.G’s fame. But, the most astounding status on the album charts that Biggie at any point accomplished while alive was #13 on the main 200 album charts, and #3 on the Rap and RnB outlines. but in reality it had been able to have the politicians, adults and people who didn't even listen and enjoyed rap music allowed Tupac and all the others that he spoke for to become recognised. Tupac was able to make an impact on those who did not even listen to rap music and have biased opinions about those like Tupac.