Hip Hop Music

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ed rhymes into the mix. The early form of the music caught on fast, and quickly spread to other urban centers in the U.S. Rapping and beat boxing soon became a way to communicate with other communities about what was happening in the cities, and Hip Hop was something like “a black CNN”. 1 It became somewhat of an underground phenomenon spreading all around the country. Tim Adkins, a columnist, describes: “Along it’s journey, Hip Hop left some debris in the small, suburban towns dotting the pathways between its bigger urban destination.”2 White people who mostly populated suburbia were now getting a taste of this new music. To add to the new phenomenon, a group called “The Beastie Boys” which consisted of three Jewish kids from New York had sprung onto the scene with party anthems. It was gaining in popularity. The white audience was embracing something other than the ordinary, and changes were to be made to accommodate their main interests in the music.
Then, in the late 80’s, a bomb hit. N.W.A. (Niggahs Wit Attitude) had exploded onto the scene. This group enticed the white kids of suburbia and taught them about a whole other world that they could never conceive. Compton. With this came the movement of gangsta rap, with its hard-hitting lyrics, and truthful story telling. In the height of this period, it was evident that the white population bought into it. A statistic done in 1992 stated that whites bought 75 percent of Hip H...