sport has changed tremendously, thanks to a group of young skaters from a slum area of Venice Beach or Dog-town, as the locals called it, known as the z-boys in the 1970’s. Even though skateboarding was already known and invented, the z-boys are the ones who made skating famous and took it to new heights in popularity. But how did they do this? The Z-boys made this sport what it is today, and played a very important part in the history and evolution of skateboard style and quality. During the 1950’s
crucial to sports in three ways: promotion, notoriety, and money. While skateboarding was still new, the truly talented needed a way to promote the sport in hopes of creating a fan base and making a career out of skateboarding. When the Zephyr Team, the Z-Boys, debuted their new surf-like/ low-to-the-ground style of skating at the Del Mar Nationals in 1975, the judges and crowd were so floored that the team was immediately disbanded because all the members were receiving offers from professional skateboard
Analysis Of Two Documentaries I will be analysing two very different types of documentary, 'Dogtown and the Z-Boys', which takes the role of being a full length movie type documentary, and 'Teenage Transsexuals' which was recently shown on Channel 4. 'Dogtown and the Z-Boys' is a documentary which takes a look at the transformation of surfing into skateboarding. The film follows the evolution of skating through it's heyday in the 70's, to it's decline in the 80's, and then back upto it's
When I was 15 I fell in love with a boy, who spilled d a drink on me at a party. “I’m so sorry about that … my name’s C by the way,” he said. “Oh wow, it’s ok … and I’m Nadine” I replied. “So nice to meet you, see you around” he said and we stared at each other for a while and then continued on. Until I met him, I was going through something with another boy that I never thought I could get over. But with C, there was an immediate connection between us. His best friend tried to get us to hookup that
Report 12.05.14 Introduction: Within today’s society, we are surrounded by Generation Z who are a group of people at a particular stage of life. The factors in which influence Generation Z’s participation on different sports vary over a wide range. These include: media, friends, popular view, advertising, how accessible, the geographic location, socio-economic, historical and political influences. Generation Z were born with laptops, cell phones, gaming devices, iPods and the internet. They do not
there are various Arab boys, Indian boys, and Pakistani guys who have adopted the look, lingo, and life of a "thug." I have seen it many times - this strange transformation from tapered jean-wearing, glasses-owning, nail biting ninny to chest-thumping, hard-acting, Nautica-wearing "thug." It begins at an early age with the use of slang, words like "werd!” ,"yo!", "jigga man!" It is followed by the gradual attraction towards mainstream rap. Ja Rule, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Jay Z. Bear in mind, this attraction
Beyonce does it again! Releasing her sixth solo album “Lemonade” on April 23, 2016, she wows her beehive fans with this different spin on an album. Beyonce's Lemonade album had a hit in each track with such a different message behind each song. Not only did she release an album, but she also released a visual album along with it. This visual album brought her words into pictures. Creativity was at it’s peak with all of the different colors and people she brought into her visual album, and I say that
My Moment... Birdman's Story The co-supporter of Cash Money Records has a birthday today. Born Bryan Williams on February 15 in 1969, he has definitely made his mark on millions of people, particularly in the place where he grew up in of zesty New Orleans, Louisiana. Birdman, otherwise known as Baby, is an intelligent entrepreneur among other titles. His releases with Big Tymers set it off for his career as a performing musical talent, but what turned everything around was his joint efforts
“Here he got his big break handling the production for the Jay Z track "This Can't Be Life," which appeared on the 2000 album Dynasty: Roc La Familia” (A&E,2018). The following year he started to produce more, he produced in four songs of Jay-Z ,then he had produced in songs for Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Ludacris, Alicia Keys and Beyoncé. He then wrote and recorded a song called “Through the Wire” were its
“Damn right I love the life I live, cause I went from negative, to positive.” This is one of the most well-known quotes stated by The Notorious B.I.G. He was an extremely talented rapper and person. Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls was one of the most respected and successful artists worldwide. Though his career was short, it was extremely successful. Biggie Smalls was the son of Jamaican parents, Violetta Wallace and George Latore. His father left the family when Biggie was just one years
the reasons to try and avoid the same situations. In a song called, “This Can’t Be Life”, artist Beanie Sigel recalls the criminal path he chose. In his song, he stated that the only thing that could stop him was, “till them feds pick me up or them boys pop me.” (Sigel) He later says that, “I have to teach my sons the right way before I die.” (Sigel) Sigel was letting his listeners know that he do not want people to do the things he did. He made it clear that he was going to teach his sons the right
What would you do? Send a young boy off to die, or let him live. Twelve men sit in a room discussing about whether they should put the boy to death or let him live the rest of his life. Convicted for murder, but only nineteen. The knife was found in his father’s chest, but the fingerprints are left unfound. In the play, “Twelve Angry Men” by Reginald Rose, the jury made the right decision to acquit the boy of the murder case because of the discussion of the evidence and of the reenactments of several
Underwater Welding and What It Takes. Underwater welding is a very intriguing topic to a teenage boy who has some talent in welding. The goal of this paper is to inform those interested in underwater welding. I will be going into some detail about what is needed to be an underwater welder. My goal is to answer the following question. What is the future of welding as a profession, particularly the effects of underwater welding? The main points I will be touching on are: what I already know, what I
style of introspective lyrics and soul-inspired rap production in the mainstream. When West first showed up (late 90s and early 2000s), the world was a different place. Fans of the genre were most likely listening to gangster-rap, artists like: Jay Z, Notorious B.I.G, 50 Cent, Tupac, Ice Cube, Eazy E, N.W.A, Wu-Tang, Nate Dogg, Dr. Dre, and Snoop Dogg (Best Gangsta Rappers), the kind of music that dominated mainstream rap at the time. Rappers and fans of rap were mostly in a gangster-influenced mind
Who is ‘Generation Z’ ? Generation Z is a group of people born the mid or late 1990s or from the mid 2000s to the present day. This is the generation that is currently being born. The generation also known as the silent generation, iGeneration, digital generation, generation quiet and net generation due to communication of the generation is contacts by communication equipments instead of speaking. Most features of the generation these are communicate via the internet that, have very little verbal
Susan Smith, a critic, states that the millennial generation is lazy, entitled, obsessed with technology and care less about working hard. Smith believes that our current society will be destined for failure in the hands of the current millennial generation. Smith is not the only one who believes that the millennial generation will lead our current society to failure. Yet the same labels have been said to the previous generation and the generation before them. Each generation does not like the generation
Tupac Shakur is widely regarded as one of the greatest rappers to ever live. According to Biography.com, he was born on June 16,1971 in New York to Afeni Shakur, a member of the Black Panther Party. During his childhood and adolescence, Shakur moved from city to city finally making his home in California after his mother moved him away from crime ridden Baltimore. In 1990, Tupac’s hip-hop career got started when he got a gig as a backup dancer with Digital Underground. After this, he landed a deal
During the 90’s, underground rappers like Big L would get recognized through radio shows or on music channels like MTV, VH1, and BET by flexing their lyrical prowess. Nowadays this isn 't as common anymore due to the rise of reality shows on music channels. Also there are very few radio shows that do live freestyles and discuss hip hop music, the well known ones are Hot97 in Atlanta and Sway in the Morning on SiriusXM. Since technology is innovating, these powerhouse radio authorities are starting
“I 'm living in that 21st Century doin ' something mean to it, do it better then anybody you ever seen do it, screams from the haters got a nice ring to it, I guess every superhero need his theme music.” Many people believe modern day Hip-Hop contains nothing but blasphemy, profanity and references to narcotics, despite these contrary beliefs Hip-Hop is still an outlet for rappers/artists to express their thoughts and opinion through lyrical composition. Artist work night and day to compose what
The Lazy Generation Kicks butt in the workforce Graduating high school had to be the biggest accomplishment of my life until reality hit me, then I realized I had way more to think about if I thought I could get through life like a got through high school. Working every day and going to college is the most difficult thing I’ve ever done, but I’m labeled as lazy because I complain that I’m tired from working a whole week and going to class three times a week. Generation Y also known as the Me, Me