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Visual Culture

We had an event that we could attend on facebook where it was basically women’s night. And it was great to hear from so many women that have the same interests as me.

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Visual Culture

Chuck Brown was one of my favorite go-go artist. I only know of go-go music because of him. I would always call him the God Father of go-go music. He is also a Virgo! Just like me!

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Visual Culture

Loved the past few guest speakers that we had in class. They were all very educational and very informative. 

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Visual Culture

Rest in Peace DMX. One of the best rappers for years. I love all of his songs. It was so sad to see him pass away. I know that his name will be kept alive.

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Visual Culture

We are currently having a guest speaker online in our visual culture class. The guest speaker is Lance Reynolds. He is a DJ. He have been DJing since 1982. I love this speaker because I love talking about gogo, although I really don’t listen to gogo music. The only gogo artist that I am really aware of is Chuck Brown (My favorite)!!

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My inspirations behind my collection robe theme is from fashion designer Brandon Warren. His robes and other outfits that he makes, really gave me inspiration. If you want to look at his work, his instagram is @iambrandonwarren 

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Recognition in female rap

The female rap artist that I think should get more recognition is Seandrea Sledge, known as her stage name, Dreezy. I think in my opinion that she is so underrated. She is very lowkey, stay away from the drama, and is very good lyrically. She doesn’t rap about the same things and can easily switch up her flow. 

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Grammys

Recently I watched the 2021 Grammys. The performance with megan thee stallion and cardi b was very interesting. I really wasn’t a fan of it, especially considering it is the Grammys. I think that their dance moves were inappropriate. 

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Beats Netflix Movie

I watched a movie called Beats on netflix back in 2019. The cast in the movie was Anthony Anderson, Khalil Everage, and Uzo Aduba. This movie was about a teenager forming a bond with a producer in the world that is struggling. They bonded over their love for hip-hop. It was a great movie to watch a good learning experience. 

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Fashion Hip-Hop Culture Essay

For my essay, since my major is fashion design, I chose to talk about fashion in the essay because fashion has changed in the hip-hop culture. Fashion in the 80′s, 90′s, and 2000′s had a very different fashion era. So I wanted to talk about how fashion has evolved in the fashion world. 

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Hip-Hop music videos

I was recently on YouTube watching videos, mostly hip hop videos. I was watching old school hip-hop music videos and the new school hip-hop music videos. I see that the videos are waayyyy different than what they are now. The old school videos had meaning to them. New school videos is all about butt shaking and females just standing around naked and twerking. I was basically comparing hip-hop videos from the old school vs the new school. 

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Biggie I Got A Story To Tell

I was watching netflix and decided to see what is new that will be on netlfix and I saw that they were making a documentary about Biggie. The documentary is about biggie and his life, his rap career and how he over came some challenges that he was facing in his life. I can’t wait to watch it!

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Our guest speaker in todays class was Dr. William E. Smith. The discussion was very informative and worth learning about. The common threads was very different to learn about because I never heard of any of these threads. I agree with Dr. Smith when he said that hip hop tells us what’s going on in society today. I love the videos that he displayed, it really made me think about the hip hop from waaayyyy waaayyyy back in the day.

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Hip Hop as Performance and Ritual.

Hip Hop is an expression and a poetic form to express feelings and emotions. There is an artist located in Washington, D.C named Priest da Nomad. He specializes in many aspects of hip hop including breakdancing, MCing, graffiti, and DJing.  I always say that its good to have artist in the DMV area to get recognition. It’s very good that he is good in many different areas of hip hop and not only just one. 

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I thought the virtual event with MC Sha-Roc and Sa-Rock was awesome. It was great to see black women empowerment of hip hop rap speak about what got them involved with rap and how it changed their lives. I learned that it wasn’t a lot of MC rappers back in the day. Some women had to pave their own way and make a name for themselves. After the event, I did listen to some of their songs because after the event, I was interested into listening to their music. I did notice that their music back in the day is way different than the women’s rap today. 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8l_0N8lLWY

This song is really describing lil kim, where she grew up and basically about her life.