1. Rap-
As We Know It
By:
Eric Harris
Royce Rowan
Evan Stone
Ofier Zigner

2. What is Rap and Hip Hop?
- Hip-Hop - an urban youth
culture associated with rap
music and the fashions of
African-American residents of
the inner city
- Rap - genre of African-American
music of the 1980s and 1990s
in which rhyming lyrics are
chanted to a musical
accompaniment; several forms
of rap have emerged

3. Breaking down Hip Hop
1. Music
2. Art/Aesthetics
3. Dance

4. Music… The Mc – The person on the
microphone, expressing his/her
thoughts and emotions through
lyrics.
The Dj – otherwise known as
the disc jockey, play music at
clubs or parties. They
normally have two turntables
which play records that are
hooked up to a stereo
system, providing music for
the mc.

5. An illegal art form where
artists claim territory by
painting their “tag name”
or message in public
places.
Graffiti is also known as
“tagging.”

6. Dance
 Break Dancing – also known as b-boying
(break boys), is a form of hip hop
dancing.
The dancers acquired the name b-boys
because they would dance during the
“break” in the song.

7. Tupac Amaru Shakur
(Shining Serpent Thankful to God)
(June 16, 1971-September 13, 1996)

8. Hip Hop when it started it was supposed to be this new
thing that had no boundaries and was so different to
everyday music. Now it seems like I was starting to get
caught up in the mode of what made hip hop come about.
As long as the music has the true to the heart soul it can
be hip hop. As long as it has soul to it, hip hop can live
on.
-Tupac Shakur

9. “ It’s all about
Tupac’s Message
addressing the problems
that we face in everyday
society”
-Police brutality
-Poverty
-Unemployment
-Insufficient education
-Disunity
-Violence
-Crime
-Teenage pregnancy

10. Changes
Cops give a damn about a negro
pull the trigger kill a nigga he's a hero
Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares
one less hungry mouth on the welfare
First ship 'em dope & let 'em deal the brothers
give 'em guns step back watch 'em kill each
other

11. “Years after his death,
Popular Tupac Shakur is still
releases considered one of the
include: most influential rap
•“Brenda’s got a Baby”
artists of all time.”
•“Changes”
•“Keep ya’ head up”
•“California Love”
…and has worked with
various artists such as
Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre,
Notorious BIG, and Bone
Thugz N’ Harmony.

12. West Coast East Coast
oCoolio
oCypress Hill oBeastie Boys
oD12 oDMX
oDr. Dre oDe La Soul
oE40 oJay-Z
oMack 10 oKRS-One
oNate Dogg oLL Cool J
oN.W.A oNas
oSnoop Dogg oNotorious BIG
oTupac oP. Diddy
oXzbit oWill Smith

13. Influence
 Southern rap
-50 Cent
-Talib Kweli
-Mos Def
-Snoop Dogg
-Dr.Dre
-Ja Rule

14. Example of new artists being influenced by Tupac…

15. The originator of west side…
Even old people are influenced by Tupac!

16. In May 1985, Tipper Gore
helped to create the Parents'
Music Resource Center. Its
board of directors consisted of
17 "Washington Wives",
married to senators,
congressmen and Cabinet
officials. Their objective was
to educate and inform parents
of “the alarming trend towards
lyrics that are violent and
sexually explicit,” by allowing
stricter enforcement of
obscenity laws.
AKA CENSORSHIP!

17. President
George Bush
denounced Ice-
T’s song Cop
Killer and any
record company
that would
release such a
product. His
Vice President
Dan Quayle
described Cop
Killer as
“obscene trash.”

18. Rap music has
always been a
popular target for
politicians because
of its depiction of
controversial
subjects such as
sex, crime, politics,
and the economic
position of their
community.

19. The End