Saturday, November 23, 2019
Hstory of Rp Msic essays
Hstory of Rp Msic essays Course Section: The History of Rap Music Specific purpose: To inform my audience on the history of rap music. Thesis: Hip Hop has become like WWF Wrestling. Central idea: I want my audience to know and understand the roots of rap music I. Hip Hop has become like WWF Wrestling. There are few artists who can hold an audience's attention for more than one hit record. There are even fewer who have the ability in this day and age to release an album that can be listened to and enjoyed in it's entirety. It's a small miracle in the year 2002 that an artist has a catalogue of music that can be looked upon as a complete body of work. II. Rap music wasnt even considered a category at the Grammys until the late 80s. It is surprising to me because rap is a form of music and it took so long to be recognized in mainstream. A. Its not a mystery, its history, and heres how it goes. 1. Two years ago, a friend of mine, asked me to say some MC rhymes and since then Run DMC has never looked back. The rap superstars have done it all and then some ever since they took the U.S. music scene by storm with Its Like That and Sucker MCs in the early 80s. 2. These guys weren't the first rap group to exist, but as Frank Owen said in New York Newsday, ``they were the first rap group that really mattered''. Guys like Grandmaster Flash did a bit of the ground work, but Run DMC were almost solely responsible for bringing rap music to the masses to enjoy the popularity that it does today. B. Some of the Run DMCs history-making achievements which changed the face of rap and popular music 1. Joseph Simmons (Run), Darryl McDaniels (DMC) and Jason Mizell (Jam Master Jay) all grew up in Hollis, Queens, and have been friends since childhood, entering college together in 1982. Run's older brother Russell, who was already an established manager in the rap world, too on the band and managed them thro...
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