Journal Entry # 9 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:

• A college professor wanted there to be a course so that students could learn how to make Hip Hop.
• Many people think Hip Hop is street music and it contains no intelligence.
• Berklee is the best college of music int he entire world.
• Rappist were really scholars, who experience a different method of learning.
• Hip Hop had to make a purpose in the world.

4 Questions:

• Why were the student shocked that their professor wanted a Hip Hop course?
• Does the Death Row Records stand for something bad?
• How did their intelligence relate to Hip Hop's ghetto tenches?
• How do people take Berklee college for granted?

3 Words:

• Turntablism (pg. 229): Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ Mixer.
• Tutmultuous: (pg. 238): full of tumult or riotousness
• Intelligentsia (pg. 247): intellectuals considered as a group or class

2 Literary Terms:

• Metaphor (pg. 234) "Many of Hip Hop's 'best and brightest' belie the tradional definition"
• Pun (pg. 239) " Single parent household drove him to the streets"

1 Sentence Summary

• Many people Hip Hop isn't formed from intelligence, but it really is all about experienced learning.

Journal Entry # 8 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:

• Hip Hop is an insult to women and it abuses our value.
• He was criticized for having inappropiate behavior in a video.
• Hip Hop can sometimes have a bad influence on teenagers.
• Blacks have a higher risk of receiving HIV because they are morte sexually active.
• R. Kelly's career was on hold because of his intercourse with a minor.

4 Questions:

• Why would they mix Hip Hop and porn?
• Where did HIV come from?
• What has Gina Wingwood found about sexually active Black girls?
• Shouldnt have R. Kelly gotten suspended from the Hip Hop business?

3 Words:

• Moguls (pg. 207): A small hard mound
• Entrenchment (pg. 209): the act of entrenching
• Ensued: (pg. 226): to follow in order

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg. 211) "He was so hyperactive as a kid"
• Metaphor (pg. 222) "The adolescent journey, so the therories assert is an especially treacherous period for young girls"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Hip Hop is loved by many people, but sometimes they do not notice when it is doing them wrong.

Journal Entry # 7 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:

• Since the Mayor of detriot fancied Hip Hop, he was able to keep his title as mayor.
• He believed that he was involved in politics cause he was born to be political.
• Even though he was all for Hip Hop he removed the earing to respect the elderly.
• Detroit becoming a black city may have caused trouble.
• Kilpatrick may have been elected for the wrong reasons.

4 Questions:

• Was it a problem that Detroit was becoming a black city?
• Did the people elect Kilpatrick only because he was into Hip Hop?
• Why did they have to imply that he was near the top of his class?
• Why didn't the older people very much vote for Kilpatrick?

3 Words:

• Remediation (pg. 189): The act or process of correcting a fault
• Moniker (pg. 196): a person's name, esp. a nickname or alias
• Revitalize (pg. 202): to give new life to

2 Literary Terms:

• Simile (pg. 202) "Like virtually every other major urban metro area in the U.S."
• Personification (pg. 204) "The aftershocks of September 11 produced a political and econmical climate that left America's big cities all but abandoned"

1 Sentence Summary:

• There is a day in the future that Hip Hop will make a difference in our lives, as it did in Kilpatrick's.

Journal Entry # 6 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:

• Many rappers from long ago represented the West Coast.
• There were more people in the U.S. who were being put in jail in 1994.
• They tried to project people from criminals.
• They didn't care about how the people felt they treated them like trash.
• They thought it was better for people to get taught than to be punished.

4 Questions:

• How can they protect the entire puclic from prisoners?
• Why did so many of those rappers die or get killed?
• Why was it that those who were not white were the ones who always seemed to be the bad ones?
• What did it take to form the CYA?

3 Words:

• Ethos (pg. 163): the fundamental character or spirit of a culture
• Incarceration (pg. 174): to imprison
• Pinnacle (pg. 177): a lofty peak

2 Literary Terms:

• Metaphor (pg. 163) "In the mountainous terrain, vast highways, and electic bed of urban and suburban communities that make up California's Bay"
• Personification (pg. 180) "Hip Hop informs the language we use"

1 Sentence Summary:

• The youth have a strong control on whether or not something will make a difference and succeed.

Journal Entry # 5 Hip Hop Matters

5 Comments:

• The people who are attracted to Hip Hop changed over time.
• Simmons built his own hip group that raised many funds for Hip Hop.
• Hip Hop has enough power to control and make a difference on many things in the world.
• Trying to catch the young people's attention is a difficult task.
• In order to do well they have to improve the mistakes they made in the past.

4 Questions:

• Why is it so important to impress everyone?
• If Afrika didn't experiment with anything that had to do with Hip Hop, why does it matter?
• Did any of those people that came to Texas Southern University actually make it into the music business?
• Did the boycotts agaisnt the HSAN ever stop?

3 Words:

• Pragmatist (pg. 145): a person who is oriented toward the success or failure of a particular line of action
• Coalition (pg. 152): a combination or alliance
• Constituency (pg. 162): a body of constituents

2 Literary Terms:

• Onomatapoeia (pg. 155) "Though the summits have generated considerable buzz, some have questioned their relevance"
• Metaphor (pg. 155) "Hip Hop is a potent catalyst for transforming the world"

1 Sentence Summary:

• Russell Simmons writes about his experience in how he realized what it takes in order to grap the people's attention.