week 9 Hip Hop: Hardcore Rap I: "Gangsta"

Who was the popularizer of gangsta rap?

Ice-T

Who created Boogie Down Productions?

MC KRS-One (the teacher) and DJ Scott La Rock

What was the cover of BDP debut alum?

"Criminal Minded" (1987)

After Ice Cube left NWA what song did NWA produce?

"One Less Bitch"

What songs by Ice-T were famous for gangsta rap?

"Rhyme Pays" (1987) "Grand Larceny" (1987)

Blaxploitation films

- Began as a film in the early 1970s about African Americans and made by African Americans -become the exploitation of African Americans by producers of Black-oriented films

What type of songs are pop rap and R&B grooves?

-MC Hammer (1989) "You Can't Touch This" -Vanilla Ice "Ice Ice Baby" (1990)

What song by Schoolly D was the first gangsta rap song?

1985 "PSK What Does Mean?"

What was the incubation period?

1988 (NWA) to 1992 (Dr. Dre's The Chronic) -rises out of underground -time when found the "formula" for rap to increase sales -commercialism

Who coined the term edutainment?

Boogie Down Productions

Who did Ice-T pair with?

Chicano rapper MC Kid Frost

Who formed NWA?

Eazy E collaborating with artists like Dr. Dre and Ice Cube

What band was early reality rap (G-style)

Geto Boys "City Under Siege"

Who was the pioneer of gangsta rap?

Schoolly D

What album by NWA changed the direction of rap making gangsta rap more marketable and reproducible?

Straight Outta Compton which included songs like "Straight Outta Compton", "F-- The Police" and "Gangsta Gangsta"

Why do artists use stock folk characters?

because these folktales are poetic narratives about everyday life experiences that celebrate the defiant acts of individuals -gangsta rappers apply these narrative conventions from these stock folk characters -borrowing something from the past to create something in the present

What were the "Bridge Wars"

dis rap between Boogie Down Productions vs MC Shan including back and forth songs like ... -MC Shan "The Bridge" (1986) -BDP "South Bronx" (1987) -MC Shan "Kill That Noise" (1987) -BDP "The Bridge is Over" (1987)

Late Period of Blaxploitation Films

dramatize and often glorify black criminals, and portray black men as pimps, pushers, prostitutes, and gangsters

Early period of Blaxploitation films

feature hustlers committed to "cleaning up the streets" films and characters achieved cult status

After Scott La Rock's Death what did the style of music go to?

from G-style/Reality Rap to Conscious rappers

After NWA released Straight Outta Compton, what was the industry trend?

from G-style/Reality rap to Gangsta Rap

Post-1988

gangsta rap and x-rated rap

stock folk characters: the trickster

lives by his wits, constantly scheming and manipulating others -major figure in African and African-American folktales

gangsta style (G-style)

lyrical themes, street sensibility, ghetto origins, issues concerning reality and "authenticity"

gangsta rap

refers to a commercial product. It eventually becomes an umbrella term

stock folk characters: the badman

rules by force and intimidation -feels justified in "beating" the system, by any means necessary

Where did stock folk characters come from?

the southern regions