Backpackers and Gangstas: Chicago's White Rappers Strive for Authenticity. This article looks at hoe white rappers create and maintain authenticity when they are inauthentic in the world standards of hip-hop. Study was conducted on 20 interviews with rappers ranging from 18 to 30 years of age. Rap has been reinterpreted by white rappers as their own holding, yet all the same themes used in rap music such as; poverty, violence, inequality and racism remain. Other races have taken up an interest in rap music so it's not just African Americans dominating this genre anymore but they have taken up in adopting aspects of Black American street culture whether it is biological difference or just in the opinions of others. "Race traitors" are they were referred to relinquish to their white heritage to take up that of a more global emerging ethnicity. Backpackers or gangstas are the two groups that rap artists are broken down into and the only major difference is in the way they rap. If their rhymes are to be sophisticated they are classified as backpackers but if their rhymes are "street" then they're gangstas. But only then is it that they are viewed as trying to be like other Black rappers.
Culture, Rap Music, "Bitch" and the Development of the Censorship Frame. Article looked at how social media changed the view of rap music, on how it's perceived by the public. For the most part people tend to associate rap music for it being criminally related or deviant in our culture. And the teenagers of today are viewed to be more out of control and even dangerous than in previous years. What this study did was try and relate how rap music reshapes an individual and how it relates to our history on music. Looking back rap has always been associated with race and class, usually those of blacks and the ghetto. So when music started becoming popularized the media as well as politicians became responsible for the negative image on rap music by stating that it was deviant and viewed as social disobedience. Reason for this being was that people from the ghetto or streets started talking about problems that no one was willing to bring up before rap music, but this became a way for the people to express themselves. It became known as a subculture; like hippies and drugs; a filler for the uncomfortable silence. The development of the censorship frame was brought up Tipper Gore who led a group known as Parents Music Resource Center. Shortly afterwards the use of foul language needed to have a "Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics" as a form of protection to the public and society.
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