I would just like to comment on a poll I recently saw on CNN SHOWBIZ tonight. The question asked, "Which musical genre was the dominate genre of the decade?" I believe that there were three prominent music genres of the '90s. Alternative Rock became a way to release anger. Hip Hop music came int...

Marshal Mathers, also known as Eminem, has been creating a stir in the music industry over the past few years. Many people feel affended and intimidated with him while he uses his freedom of speech and expresses himself. His rapping and hip hop lyrics are raw, explicic and very offending to many...

Music has transformed drastically in recent years and has emerged as a form of counterculture. Specifically, hip hop music, has been identified as a counterculture that has inspired social change through its message. Although many consider hip-hop controversial, it has become a global phenomena in i...

The goodness of Hip Hop has been a question in today's society for quite some time. Some say that it causes negative and positive actions to occur due to the graphic natural and sexual reference displayed in its lyrics. Others would argue that Hip Hop places a "matrix" (Britton, &q...

The 1960s were the beginning of the new youth culture. Young people suddenly had power, they wanted to have a say on what was going on at that particular time. The best way to do this was through the music, hence the universal language. Music was used as a way to express emotions about everything, a...

In The mid 70's a new culture emerged in The South Bronx section of New York City, little did anyone know that it would spread like a wild fire throughout the nation effecting not only the music industry, but Media, Fashion, marketing and advertising, and almost every aspect of modern society....

The Hip-Hop/Rock Phenomenon It seems as though you can barely read a magazine or flip on the television without hearing about one of these new hip-hop/rock groups. Media outlets such as Rolling Stone and MTV treat these bands as though miraculously created this "new" genre of musi...