Conscious rap
Conscious Rap ( engl. Conscious aware ') refers to a form of the rap , the contents of political or social criticism is motivated. In this sense, it is not an independent sub-genre, but rather a way in which the musicians in question understand themselves. To a limited extent, Conscious Rap forms a counterpoint to aggressive gangsta rap or battle rap , although nonetheless often cross-genre work (featured) with other artists. The roots of Conscious Rap go back to the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. The American representatives of the genre tend to be located in the underground. Conscious rap in the broadest sense includes Public Enemy , 2Pac , Boogie Down Productions / KRS-One , Atmosphere , A Tribe Called Quest , Arrested Development , Brand Nubian , De La Soul , Dead Prez , Gang Starr , Jungle Brothers , Common , Mos Def , The Roots , Kendrick Lamar and Talib Kweli counted. Two of the first songs in this direction are The Message and New York, New York by Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five from 1982 and 1983.
In Germany , among others, Advanced Chemistry , which are considered to be the first German representatives of the genre, Curse , Prinz Pi , Ben Salomo , Prezident , Spax , Anarchist Academy , Chaoze One , Albino , Freundeskreis , Meyah Don , Edgar Wasser , W4C , Ruhrpott AG as well Blumio with his rapped comments on current world events can be counted in the genre.
Swiss hip-hop , which differs from German rap through its dialect language, is often socially critical. To be mentioned here are, for example, Breitbild , Greis , Section Kuchikäschtli , X-Chaibä and also the stress that comes from French-speaking Switzerland .
The Swedish hip-hop group Looptroop can also be assigned to Conscious Rap.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Amanda Thompson: Gender in Hip Hop: A Research Study. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Humboldt State University, May 6, 2004, archived from the original ; accessed on March 13, 2008 (English).
- ^ A b Roxanne L Brown: Todd Boyd's Lessons on the Rise of Hip Hop: Move Civil Rights and Historical Context Out of the Way. (PDF) The Center for Black Diaspora, archived from the original on September 11, 2008 ; accessed on March 13, 2008 (English).
- ↑ Conscious Hip Hop vs Gangsta Rap? . Retrieved December 18, 2010. (English)
- ↑ Once upon a time there was a counterculture - taz.de
- ↑ Advanced Chemistry at laut.de
- ↑ Is intelligent rap possible? - taz.de
- ↑ Album Review Curse - Gangsta Rap
- ↑ Negative becomes positive - daily mirror
- ↑ Yahoo video channel from Blumio ( Memento of the original from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Looptroop at laut.de
