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Tuesday, 2 October 2012

A Short Overview Of Hip Hop Attire

By Rashad Brown


More than time, the different dance styles of hip hop have significantly influenced the dress sense of people in the hip hop community. Restrictive clothing was a hindrance when performing the moves of dances including break-dancing. The dancers needed baggy clothing that allowed their bodies to move freely.

Also, comfortable shoes would be needed, and sneakers seem to have filled this require. 1 only requirements to take a look at what are students adore to wear to see the validity within the statements concerning dress created above. A question may arise about why young male students wear their pants hanging down by their hips.

This style did not result from the dance styles of the 'Hip Hop' culture but from a a lot more dubious source, 1 that many of these young male students are totally unaware of. This style originated in the prisons. Unfortunately, there's a high percentage of young minorities which are incarcerated at some point in their life. When behind these locked doors prison officials typically remove inmates' belts for obvious causes.

As a consequence, inmates would walk about with their pants about their hips. When these young inmates were released and returned to their old neighborhoods, they brought with them this style of wearing their pants about their hips.

This style became common with young males without their realizing they were emulating a style that had originated in prison. I by no indicates am implying that if these young males had known the origin of this style that this style would not have become so well-liked. If 1 talks to any one who has been incarcerated they will substantiate the reality that this style has been in prisons for many years.

At this point in my unit I would like to examine the rap music industry today. Even although rap is proportionally far more well-liked amongst blacks, its primary audience is white and lives in the suburbs based on David Samuels in his write-up in the November 11, 1991 concern of "The New Republic."

The write-up was titled "The Rap on Rap: the 'Black Music' that Is not Either". Samuels attempts to substantiate this truth by revealing that the number 1 selling record in 1991 based on Billboard Magazine was Niggaz4life, a celebration of gang rape as well as other violence by the group N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude).

At that time, Billboard magazine had started a much more precise way of counting the number of record sales. This was accomplished by utilizing bar codes that where then scanned every time a record was sold. This was a much less complicated and more precise method than based on record stores to accurately declare their numbers of sold records.

Samuels went on to state that the much more rappers had been packaged as violent black criminals the bigger the white audience became. I do not think any 1 can account for the reputation of rap to a white audience no far more than one could account for the popularity of the black entertainment within the 'speakeasies' to the white audiences of the late 1920s and 1930s. Apart from the attraction which exists for some thing which is taboo or forbidden by one's social group.




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