I thoroughly enjoyed developing my What’s Up in Hip-Hop presentation. As soon as my group realized we wanted to discuss lesser known females I knew I had to discuss Azealia Banks. I Have been a fan of Azealia Banks since around the time of early high school. I was dazzled by her viral single 212… Continue reading →

The last two episodes we were assigned to watch of The Get Down has made me think introspectively about two specific readings that I enjoyed very much. In episode eight of The Get Down we see Shaolin very afraid that The Get Down will fail and flounder in this already difficult and cut throat music… Continue reading →

Community and The World is obviously a pressing issue at large today. Many people are deeply concerned over our foreign relations and even internal struggles in our country such as the left versus the right. However, over the past two weeks, the readings and episodes of The Get Down I have reviewed have made me… Continue reading →

For this block of weeks in class, I learned a lot about “De/Constructing Gender and Sexuality”. Particularly we discussed in class we talked a lot about identity, and how it’s one of the main facets of hip-hop and how it directly effects the paths and style that people take in hip-hop. We discussed how often… Continue reading →

Hip-hop has always been an area of interest of mine since I was very young. I would listen to hip-hop on the radio or with some of my friends, and I was so infatuated with the music that it led me to be a huge fan to this day. It was not until this class… Continue reading →

https://genius.com/Nas-you-cant-stop-us-now-lyrics I chose this particular song by Nas featuring The Last Poets because I liked the specific lyric “I love y’all, pyramids to cotton fieldsTo Wrigley Fields, forgotten men who did get killed”. I liked this particular lyric because It made me think of the “where” emphasized in the Forman reading. The “where” always symbolized your… Continue reading →