Reflect on the mainstream corporate rap and hip-hop industry.
Listen to Top 40 hip-hop and absorb mainstream rap culture. Seek out the current and top Billboard rap and hip-hop songs of 2015. Listen to mainstream corporate-owned rap radio stations. Watch reality tv shows about “hip-hop”. Look through the pages of mainstream rap and hip-hop magazines. Take notes. What do you see and hear?
What are the themes embedded in popular rap/hip-hop that is marketed by billion dollar media corporations? What are the social values and trends evidenced by this music and imagery? What are the social and economic functions of this music? What sorts of assumptions, perceptions and attitudes does this image of hip-hop shape in people’s minds about race, social class and gender identity?
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