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History of Black Music
The History of Black Music started out with the soulful sounds of jazz music. It was the profound sound of musical keys that lead on to the 60 is with the personification of Motown, the blues and soul. The music lyrics spoke of the movement. The 70’s style of music used psychedelic tunes of psychedelic funk. New York folk music transferred into clean rap lyrics. There was the scratching of records and experimental mixing on the turntables that led to hard-core rap using offensive lyrics. The rise of women rappers like Queen Latifa and Salt and Pepper spoke of empowering women. In the 90’s artist like 2Pac and NWA composed protest rap lyrics that spoke about harmony and unity form of rap protest against the government uniting the community that was unrepresented in the media as outcast. It was to say that poor people are not living their lives that way because they wanted to. It was the perdicument they lived in 2Pac lyrics said. 2Pac wrote on the environment in which he grew up in. He was homeless once, lived with a single mom, he dad was a hustler, people on drugs and he spent time in prison. it was the background of his civil rights stuggle behind the words of his poems. It became the voice of the people. Women rappers stated we are not bitches and whores and we demand respece. Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre powerful lyrics became the harmony for gangster sytle easing tensions of gangsters, thugs and people in prison. Beyonce movement said words in music that needed to be said. Biggie Smalls created a smoothe style rap for the ladies that used so many rhymes per beat in a line. Little Kim in her form of rap personified women as she became a sex symbol. Chris style was created in the late 90’s by using old song tracks with rap lyrics. It was an era known as the rise of hip-hop. Later came the mixing of songs on two turntables where the music was mixed overlap of note, which created an echoing sound serge of notes from old school and new school