Hip Hop

Hello blog people. Welcome to Friday again, this week we focused on Nina Simon again and also hip hop. We also had to watch one of two different documentaries about hip hop started. 

            The one I watched was called The Last Poet: made in Amerikkka. The documentary was interesting to watch since it was all in spoken word poetry. This made it stand out in a way that I didn’t expect from the film. During it to it showed really how this group of men started rap because from there words and also their language it was clear if you added a beat to that and put a rhythm to the words, they could be rap songs. 

            I don’t personally enjoy hip hop or rap music, I prefer pop and a little rock ‘n roll. But I enjoy poems, I just like writing them they are my favorite part English over the years of grade school. So then when I watched the last poet movie and I learned poems that turned into rap music it made me more interested in rap. Not enough to change everything I listen to but maybe when I have my Spotify on shuffle, I won’t skip a song because it’s a rap song. 

            The hard-core rap still threw me off since I hate listening to the n-word. And rap uses it so much, and I know that is a generalization of all rapper, but I don’t like listening to it. Also, I don’t like songs degrade a woman because we don’t deserve it. Things like this I don’t like so I just choose not to listen to it if I can decide not to listen to it. I won't force people around me not to listen to it either but if I have a choice I won’t.

            It was cool learning the history around all this music but I still have my own opinions about this style of music.