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  • Essay / Analysis of Hip Hop Planet by James Mcbride - 730

    Hip hop according to James McBride's article "Hip Hop Planet" is a unique and different form of music that brings a message that only those who pay attention to it particular understand it. Many who dislike this form of music would say that it is "without melody, without feeling, without instruments, verse or harmony and does not even seem to be music" (McBride, p. 1 ). Although Hip Hop has proven why it deserves to be called music. By delving deeper into its values ​​and origins, we understand why it is so popular with young people and why it has continued to evolve over the years instead of dying. Many of the values ​​of Hip Hop that make it unique and different from other forms of music are that it makes "visible the inner culture of America's greatest social problem, its legacy of slavery, which carried the dream deferred on a global scale” (McBride, p. 8). Hip hop is also “music that defies definition, yet defines our collective societies in immeasurable ways” (McBride, p. 2). THE