MUS 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gangsta Rap, Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five, Slick Rick
26 Nov 2017
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Message rap: also called conscious rap, typically, about problems faced by black communities, possible solutions, positive black identity. Media portrayal of the black person were and are typically harmful and negative, this countered it: unity (come together as a black community) Gansta rap: street tales of criminality (more brutal, violent, misogyny more common, connections to our toasting traditions. These genres are two sides of the same coin, we will try to un-blur the lines. For instance, we will not consider slick rick as gangster rap. Looks like a war zone, typically disadvantaged areas or black/latino areas. They were on the verge of bankruptcy in the 1970s (that"s why there was only one fire hall in the bronx for thousands of people) Landlords would sometimes burn down the buildings to collect insurance money (arson), on the other side this would leave people homeless or to squat in the rundown buildings. Unemployment, poverty, crime and gangs (need food, steal hubcaps, etc. )
