Sultan Kamara
Dr. Derrais Carter
Hip Hop & Racial Idealogy BST 511
October 5, 2014

“Put Some Bass In Your Walk.”

3 Quotes from Article 1. “I shouldn’t think about or openly write about black male bodies in hip hop because the black male body had been historically under siege in American culture, a site of violence and trauma and demasculization.” 2. “So what was one to make of this new sound, this rap music, straight from the streets of New York and New Jersey, in which “masculine” bodies and voices spit boasts and stories over disco music? It certainly wasn’t coded as “gay,” even though the music behind the voices was a snippet of the musical soundtrack that had been relegated across the sexual line to the “gay crowd.” 3. “Disco, too, was aspirational music: it trafficked in glamour; it sold a vision of access, of high living, of escape from the mundane. It was, in many ways regardless of its European club linage a singular soundtrack of American dreaming. And who dreamed harder made their dreams (and nightmares) the stuff of publicly rendered fantasy better than rappers?

3 non-evaluative 1. This article is basically about sampling and how stereotypes view what’s masculine and feminist. Majority of hip hop songs in the 80s and 90s and early 2000s are sampled from R&B music. Even though stereotypes view R&B as feminine, rappers today have hits that will make them so much money and also they are viewed as thugs/gangsters that is a masculine trait. From a basketball perspective Kareem Abdul Jabbar mastered the hook shot. The Game today has changed tremendously as far as atheism. So you would think the hook shot is not effective in today’s game right? Wrong! Lebron James uses the hook shot and of course he’s a gifted explosive athlete. 2. Another example would be a professional athletes kids pursing what their parents did. So much high expectation’s for the child to succeed but at the end of the day that child does not have to play sports in order to be successful 3. My last example would be religion; there are so many Christians in our society that are homosexual. Of course stereotypes will feel some type of way about and think negative towards that but god loves all his children no matter if you are straight or gay.
2 examples of songs 1. Kanye West – Everything I am (Graduation) (2007) 2. Jay-z – Never change (The Blueprint) (2001)