history and development of the Hip hop/rap music genre
The excerpts speak of the history and development of the Hip hop/rap music genre. It focuses on the area where it mainly all began and who it all begun with the likes of Dr Dre and Deejay Yella. It speaks of how from a very young age, all the guys made music about how they led their lives and how it all unreeled from their gang surroundings. It also focuses on how the industry developed ad its current state with young artists still speaking of gangs and gangbanging. The writer also shed light on his adoration of the Schoolly D.
The movie pass the mic is enlightenment of how the music of the business industry works. The film shows the many highs and lows that many young and upcoming artists face and the various business aspects that if not understood, will bring the downfall of the business. The movie shows how labels dismissed artists and how now record companies exploit the music industry. There is also an excellent description of the development and evolution of the Latin Hip-hop underground.
The video takes a moment to breathe mainly focuses on the challenges black individuals face. He speaks of taking a moment to breathe and listening to the people who are being used as objects and seen as lesser than other people. He raps in depth of how he feels about his environs and how his people are considered as more inferior. There is a change over the time the two videos were recorded from the use of megaphones to microphones to even the styles used. In one form there is rapping to a hymnal like beat whereas the take a moment to breathe, he lets the words flow.