SDSU Music 351 Hip Hop Final

NWA "**** tha Police"

"**** tha Police" is a protest song by the gangsta rap group N.W.A that appears on the album Straight Outta Compton as well as on the N.W.A's Greatest Hits compilation.

2Pac "California Love"

"California Love" is a hip hop song by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman. The song was released as 2Pac's comeback single after his release from prison in 1995 and was his first single as a Death Row Records artist. This is perhaps 2Pac's best-known song and his most successful, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks

2Pac "Dear Mama"

"Dear Mama" is a song by American hip hop recording artist 2Pac, released on February 21, 1995 as the lead single from his third studio album, Me Against the World (1995). The song is a tribute to his mother, Afeni Shakur. In the song, Shakur details his childhood poverty and his mother's addiction to crack cocaine, but argues that his love and deep respect for his mother supersede bad memories.

Lauryn Hill "Doo Wop (That Thing)"

"Doo Wop (That Thing)" is the debut solo single from American recording artist Lauryn Hill. The song is taken from her debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Written and produced by Hill, the song was released as the album's lead single in July 1998

De La Soul "Eye Know"

"Eye Know" is a single from De La Soul's landmark album 3 Feet High and Rising. It peaked at number 14 on the UK singles chart. It was not released as a single in the United States.

Public Enemy "Fight the Power"

"Fight the Power" is a song by American hip hop group Public Enemy, released as a single in June 1989 on Motown Records. It was conceived at the request of film director Spike Lee, who sought a musical theme for his 1989 film Do the Right Thing

Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby"

"Ice Ice Baby" is a hip hop song written by American rapper Vanilla Ice and DJ Earthquake, professional beat-boxer. The song interpolates the bassline of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, who did not initially receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit

Notorious BIG "Juicy"

"Juicy" is a single by American hip hop artist The Notorious B.I.G. and his solo debut single from his 1994 debut album Ready to Die. It was produced by Poke of Trackmasters & Sean "Puffy" Combs

Salt-n-pepa "Lets Talk About Sex"

"Let's Talk About Sex" is a song by American hip-hop trio Salt-n-Pepa. It was released in August 1991 as a single from their Blacks' Magic album, and achieved great success in many countries, including Australia, Austria, Germany, and Switzerland where it was a number-one hit.

Eric B. and Rakim "Microphone Fiend"

"Microphone Fiend" was the second single released from the hip hop duo Eric B. & Rakim's second album Follow the Leader. The song became something of a signature song for rapper Rakim, and AllMusic's Steve Huey says the song "weaves references to substance addiction throughout in explaining why Rakim can't keep away from the mic.

Dr Dre feat. Snoop Doggy Dogg "Nuthin but a 'G' THang"

"Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" is a duet by American rapper Dr. Dre and rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg from Dre's debut solo album, The Chronic (1992). It is the first single from the album. "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang" reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100,

Kanye West "Power"

"Power" (sometimes stylized as "POWER") is a song by American hip hop recording artist Kanye West, released as the lead single from his fifth studio album, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)."Power" was West's comeback single following his 2008 album 808s & Heartbreak and his controversial incident with Taylor Swift at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Eminem " Till I Collapse"

"Till I Collapse" is a song by the American rapper Eminem from his fourth studio album, The Eminem Show (2002). It is the 18th track on the album, and features American rapper Nate Dogg in the chorus.

"Baadman"

- rules force and imitation - Feels justified in "beating" the system, by any means necessary - East-E :2 Hard Mutha's) (1990)

Genre

A genre is a specific type of music, film, or writing.

mixtape

A mixtape, mix-tape or mix tape is the generic name given to any compilation of songs recorded onto any audio format

Bad Boy Records

Bad Boy Entertainment is a record label founded in 1993 by producer/rapper/entrepreneur Sean Combs. Today, it operates as a division of Sony Music Entertainment, and is currently distributed by Epic Records.

Blaxploitation

Blaxploitation or blacksploitation is an ethnic subgenre of the exploitation film. It emerged in the United States in the early 1970s. Blaxploitation films were originally made specifically for an urban black audience, but the genre's audience appeal soon broadened across racial and ethnic lines.

Bounce Music

Bounce music is an energetic style of New Orleans hip hop music which is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s

Cash Money Records

Cash Money Records, Inc. is an American record label founded by brothers Bryan "Birdman" Williams and Ronald "Slim" Williams, who currently act as CEOs.

chopped and screwed

Chopped and screwed (sometimes called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) refers to a technique of remixing hip hop music which developed in the Houston hip hop scene in the 1990s

Boogie Down Productions "Criminal Minded"

Criminal Minded is the debut album by Boogie Down Productions, released on March 3, 1987 on B-Boy Records. Considered a highly influential hip hop album,[1] it is also credited with providing a prototype for the East Coast gangsta rap which emerged in the following decades.

crunk

Crunk is a genre of hip hop music originated by Three 6 Mafia in Memphis, Tennessee in the early 1990s and gained mainstream success around 2003-04. Performers of crunk music are sometimes referred to as "crunksters"

cultural appropriation

Cultural appropriation is the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture

Death Row Records

Death Row Records is a record company founded in 1991 by Dr. Dre, The D.O.C., and Suge Knight. Many west coast artists were on the label such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, The Outlawz, The Lady of Rage, MC Hammer, Young Soldierz, Sam Sneed, LBC Crew, RBX, Michel'le, Jewell, Danny Boy, DJ Quik, O.F.T.B., Nate Dogg and the rap group Tha Dogg Pound consisting of rappers Kurupt, Daz Dillinger, Soopafly, and many others.

Digital Underground

Digital Underground was an alternative hip hop group from Oakland, California. Their personnel changed and rotated with each album and tour.

Fab Five Freddy

Fred Brathwaite more popularly known as Fab 5 Freddy, is an American hip hop pioneer, visual artist and filmmaker. Blondie/Rapture

G-Funk

G-funk, or gangsta-funk, is a subgenre of hip hop music that emerged from West Coast gangsta rap in the early 1990s.

Jerry Heller

Gerald E. "Jerry" Heller (born October 6, 1940 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American music manager and businessman. He is best known for managing west coast rap super-group and gangsta rap pioneers N.W.A and Eazy-E.

hypermasculinity

Hypermasculinity is a psychological term for the exaggeration of male stereotypical behavior, such as an emphasis on physical strength, aggression, and sexuality.

stop time

In tap dancing, jazz, and blues, stop-time is an accompaniment pattern interrupting, or stopping, the normal time and featuring regular accented attacks on the first beat of each or every other measure alternating with silence or solos. Stop-time appears, "occasionally," in ragtime music.

jazz-rap

Jazz rap is a subgenre of hip hop music that incorporates jazz influences, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, Afrocentrism, and general positivism.

Marion "Suge" Knight

Marion Hugh "Suge" Knight Jr. is an American record producer and music executive. He is the founder and CEO of Black Kapital Records and co-founder and former CEO of Death Row Records.

Nas "NY State of Mind"

N.Y. State of Mind is a song by American hip hop recording artist Nas, taken from his debut studio album Illmatic (1994). The song's production was handled by DJ Premier who sampled two jazz songs: "Mind Rain" by Joe Chambers and "Flight Time" by Donald Byrd

Ice T "Rhyme Pays"

Rhyme Pays is the debut studio album by American rapper Ice-T. The album was released on July 28, 1987, by Sire Records and Warner Bros. Records. The album, especially tracks like "6 'N the Mornin'," is considered to have defined the gangsta genre.

Iceberg Slim

Robert Beck, better known as Iceberg Slim, was an American pimp who subsequently became an influential author among a primarily African-American readership

Roc-a-fella records

Roc-A-Fella Records is a record label founded by Damon "Dame" Dash, Shawn "Jay Z" Carter, and Kareem "Biggs" Burke. It operates as a subsidiary of Universal Music Group, being distributed by Def Jam Recordings.

Ruthless Records

Ruthless Records is an American record label, founded by music manager Jerry Heller and gangsta rapper Eazy-E in Eazy's hometown of Compton, California in 1986.

Sean Combs

Sean John Combs, also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, Puffy, Diddy, and P. Diddy, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, and entrepreneur. Combs was born in Harlem and grew up in Mount Vernon, New York. Founder of Bad Boy Records.

Dirty South

Southern hip hop, also known as Southern rap, South Coast hip hop, or Dirty South, is a blanket term for a subgenre of American hip hop music that emerged in the Southern United States, especially in Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Memphis, and Miami.

NWA "Straight Outta Compton"

Straight Outta Compton is the debut studio album by American hip hop group N.W.A, released August 9, 1988 on group member Eazy-E's record label Ruthless Records. Production for the album was handled by Dr. Dre with DJ Yella giving co-production. The album has been viewed as the pioneering record of gangsta rap with its ever-present profanity and violent lyrics. It has been considered groundbreaking by music writers and has had an enormous impact on the evolution of West Coast hip hop.

Black Arts Movement

The Black Arts Movement was the name given to a group of politically motivated black poets, artists, dramatists, musicians, and writers who emerged in the wake of the Black Power Movement.

Jungle Brothers

The Jungle Brothers are an American hip hop group, and founding members of the Native Tongues collective. The Jungle Brothers pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house-music producer.

Native Tongues

The Native Tongues is a collective of late 1980s and early 1990s hip-hop artists known for their positive-minded, good-natured Afrocentric lyrics, and for pioneering the use of eclectic sampling and later jazz-influenced beats.

PMRC

The Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) was an American committee formed in 1985 with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to be violent, have drug use or be sexual via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers.

Queen Latifah " LAdies First"

The feminist anthem "Ladies First" (with Monie Love) remains one of Latifah's signature songs.

womanism

Womanism is a social theory deeply rooted in the racial and gender oppression of black women. There are varying interpretations on what the term womanist means and efforts to provide a concise and all encompassing definition have only been marginally successful.

afrocentric

regarding African or black culture as preeminent