POP SUBCULTURE ESSAY
2/4/16
In these times of technology
and social media moving so fast, by the time I am done explaining about Pop- Subculture a new probably came out
and another died out. A “popular subculture”
is a cultural group that is in a larger culture, which most often it is
having an exaggerating system of beliefs or interests at being different with
those of the larger culture. In a non-stereotype world, whom culture can not be ideally
defined by geographical borders, race, age, or social class. A
Subculture is a substitution of a culture replacing our modern parent culture,
and a Pop Subculture is finding new creative ways and principles. One popular
culture that has changed but still very active is “Hip-Hop”, it strongly alive
in our society and definitely in our
youth culture.
In this essay, I will
discuss a background of my culture what I believe is a culture of me and my family. Although,
my main topic is “ popular subculture
“ I think it helps to understand parts and
values of the culture of hip hop
especially in the rap music in today's world which has grown very popular with so
many people. My outlook is “hip hop” as an African-American subculture, furthermore, I'm going to discuss how is not just for African
American but where it began and how it's becoming even more popular now with our youth.
From the time Hip-Hop was, in the beginning, stages, it was used as the rebellion against those dominant white
American society and which it was a form of creating a common Identity for
young black Americans.
How I define a culture, is what we do within our family
activities, our culture is based on what we do and what has happened in the
past years has carried on through multiple generations. We constantly continue
to grow as our culture keeps obtaining the same values or habits as in the
past. I come from a Mexican culture so I believe I obtain two different
cultures. We can have multiple cultures that are
what comes to my mind as I was born and
raised in San Jose, California, which I
adapted to the culture around me the culture in my neighborhood and the culture
in my family house. The culture in San Jose, the culture in California, let
alone our culture in north California which is also known as the Bay Area. One
can argue you should only be identified by one culture or one whom can only identify you with one culture. I tend to disagree with
that idea when I go out of town people from a different city or a difference
taken notice my different accent the way I talk the way I speak in slang,
professionally or about sports. About twice a year I go on vacation to visit
family in Los Angeles a quick example on how we speak with in Friends and young
family is one word difference is saying heck of a crowd or a hell of a crowd
you can here it sounds the same but when you hear people talking about that you can tell the “heck” comes from
Southern California and using “hella” comes from Northern California. The word
hella is used and is common between the young folks and people in their
thirties around here in the Bay Area you actually can see it on t-shirts. There is one t-shirt that made me laugh it
had the word “hella” but hockey sticks created the 2 L's that's when I knew
that this was a thing this is in our subcultures and southerners know this and
they make fun of this and can identify us when we use this type of word when
we’re their side of the state. Here is where you even could distinguish
peoples like of Hip-Hop and their local
artist styles of music.
Subcultures tend to arise from a community of people, as an
example in the early years hip hop was a subculture within the urban African
American community, which in some believe is it community within the larger
American society. Hip hop sometimes misunderstood and can be included in the community of people who are at the lower
end of society hierarchy such as family from low-income young individuals and
minorities. Although the ice is in the case of hip hop has little research to
confirm the differential between the Office primarily because that of ethnic backgrounds or class
differentiability and the music or audience are impossible to identify. Some belief is that young white Americans
make up rap hip-hop music a majority portion
of those who listen to hip-hop music and attend
today's hip-hop
concerts. Hip-Hop is considered “rap” music, which there are two types of
Poetry rap and gangster rap. Gangster rap can be known for a very violent type
of expression through experiences in the ghetto low-income
community. One well-known gangster rap
music group is NWA and message rap, you
have artists like Tupac, Eminem and Lupe Fiasco who express themselves to
ghetto poetry and political expressions of their neighborhood and how the world
sees the minorities in the community. Rap poetry can come in various messages,
for example; positive message through tough
times, Tupac Shakur expresses that, “Remember one thing through every dark night, there’s
a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out.
Keep your head up, and handle it.”(Tupac 94).
The roots of rap music go way back into some forms of
political controversy and deals with the situations of the African American
population in the United States. In the
eyes of hip hop the parental culture was more related to African American
community then the working class community, even though you could include young
Latinos and even white low-income families. Eminem is an example who listen to
rap music and was able to express his hardship and feelings through the
microphone. As a teenage dropout, Eminem
verbally showed his passion through the language of rap. Even though rap
was historically known to be performed by
African Americans, this young full of anger white American kid was a special exception. His music liking was of NWA, who
was a highly hated controversial gangster rap group from Los Angeles. His music
touches a lot of young white American
kids hearts, whom they also understood as a white American coming from a broken
while living in poverty. While Eminem was highly
controversial, I admire him for his transition from gangster rap enthusiast
to a motivational rapper.In his song “Till
I collapse”, he explains that “You gotta
find that inner strength and just pull that shit
out of you. And get that motivation to not give up and not be a quitter, no
matter how bad you wanna just fall on your face and collapse.” This is a song
no matter what type of race, color or social class you come from, you could
relate to his lyrics.
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