mixtape stuff

here is link to the mix/muxtape i threw together. http://crunk205.muxtape.com/

It was somwhat difficult for me to compile this mixtape, not becuase of technical problems, but because rap, much less cruck music isn’t my favorite. Im quite unfamiliar with the whole subculture beside what get shoved down my throat by the media. While names like lil jon and the eat side boys stood out, i really had to look for other artist in order to put together the tape. As i began picking and choosing music, most of which i didnt think i had hear, i found it to be the opposite
case. I had heard these songs, probably from clubs and parties. I def felt a better connection when i realized i had been a part of the crunk music culture, even tho i thought i was far removed. A good part of the sosngs are by lil jon and the ESB, but i also have some by Bonecrusher, youngbloodz, Ying Yang twinz and Petey Pablo. I feel the tape does a good job of encompassing the themes and popular qualities associated with crunk music. Namely drinking, sex, partying, and overall energy. Almost every music video had some part filmed at a party or club, where crunk music most closely relates with its listeners.
jon

Aztlan Underground

After many, many technical issues, we’ve FINALLY got a functioning blog! HOORAY!

For some reason, we can’t figure out how to make individual pages on Blogger, so we’ve opted to each make our own blogs that will link to our main intro page, with a similar dark theme to keep things cohesive–at least, visually speaking. We weren’t feeling super creative in class today, so our working users names are just “Chicano” + our real name. So I’m ChicanoCandace. Very original, I know. We might change them in the future, but getting content up on our pages is the main priority. Especially as we might be presenting on Friday…

–ChicanoC

The Underground – About Us

The underground now has an about us section. Come check out who we are and catch up on some of our biographies. For all of you that don’t know, I’ve taken the alias of “Katie.” For anyone that has seen Horton Hears a Who… you’ll understand. Check out who I am

- Ray

The Underground

I’ve been working a bit on the lyrics pages in our blog. I put a main lyrics page (A Look Inside the Lyrics) thats going to have the main posts about the lyrics on the top level. I put in a mini-highlight of Pigeon John already into the second tier, and will update it if I find more videos and interviews. I was thinking about doing one or two more artists to highlight specifically, as well as the “how-to” idea. If you guys think of any artists that would be good to highlight, reply here and I’ll check them out!
Dale

The Revolutionary- KRS-One- Thomas Richard

KRS-ONE BIOGRAPHY:

KRS-One was born on 1965, in Brooklyn, of Nigerian and Jamaican descent. The rapper left home at the age of 14 to play basketball and read books, free of his authorities, his mother and the New York City public school system.

KRS-One (Knowledge Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone).

KRS caused controversy when he was quoted in a panel discussion hosted by The New Yorker magazine as saying that “we cheered when 9/11 happened”. The comment drew criticism from many sources, including the New York Daily News that called KRS an “anarchist” and said that “If Osama bin Laden ever buys a rap album, he’ll probably start with a CD by KRS-One.” In late 2005, KRS released a remix of the song “Bin Laden”, which blames U.S. conservatives, the Reagan Doctrine and U.S. President George W. Bush for the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The album, titled Hip-Hop Lives, was released in May 2007 with Marley Marl as the executive producer. This is a historical hip hop album in the sense that 20 years ago, KRS and Marl were once bitter rivals involved in the legendary Bridge Wars. It all happened with one phone call,” Marley Marl told during a March 2006 interview. “They called me and he jumped on the phone and told me it would be spectacular for Hip Hop…My reason for doing this is to show these kids that Hip Hop beefs are not that serious.” Read more about KRS-One’s envlovement in the Bridge Wars in our beef section by clicking here. “Kill A Rapper”, a track from the album focuses on the unsolved murders of several of rap’s biggest stars and asks why no one has ever been brought to justice.

KRS-One & Marley Marl Lyrics

Hip Hop Lives

Hip Hop

We gotta think about the children we bringing up
When Hip and Hop means intelligence springing up
We singing what?

Sickness Hatred Ignorance and Poverty
Or Health Love Awareness and Wealth

Follow me

I come back
Every year I get newer
That’s right
I come back

This Hip Hop
We gone last forever

KRS-ONE & Marley Marl “Hip Hop Lives”

The Underground

Been working a little bit on the project. I setup the blog into pages to allow the user to choose between pages as they wish but each page will have a suggestion (link) to continue to the next page in our order. I’ve looked at a lot of material for the underground to include in my section. I already starting put a little up that can be checked out here.

I also started with the Mixtape using Miwwit. Just ran into a little problem. I included the link to the mixtape but couldn’t get it embedded into the post. Whats the tip? I used the code tried through HTML, ect. Any suggestions please let me know. I chose 12 or 13 songs I think and I listed them out in the post. I havent gone through and given a description / reason for my choices yet though.

I’ll post more about my topic throughout the week.

-Ray

lil jon-get low

We’ve decided on Get Low by Lil Jon (i believe) for our DJ for a day. To me this song is about as crunk as it gets. Just watching the video is convincing enough. I’ll provide a link to the music video as well as the lyrics. To me, the most important aspect of the song is who it targets. The target group is people in their 20′s: people that would frequently go to clubs and parties (i.e. college kids). The song has themes that, although may seem extremely offensive and inapporpirate to some, the targeted group can associate and relate to. They include dancing, drinking, and sexy or wild acts, all of which can easlily be understood as party activities. It easy to see how easy this music is accepted, almost needed, in social situations where people are having a good time.

The Underground

WordPress is a little limited in its themes, but I updated Group 1′s blog with a sunset theme that is a little neutral. Check out our RSS feeds that have some current underground hip-hop news along with some videos I’ve found around the net. A little mainstream might be mixed in with the underground vids, can’t find a straight source for shows. More to come shortly.

-Ray

G1205.wordpress.com The Underground

Just to explain a little more in depth about how we are going to attack the Hip-hop underground area in our research. Our group has found that the underground society within hip-hop acts as a “baseline” to the hip-hop culture. Normally the underground remains close to hip-hop’s origins while other areas of hip-hop tend to branch out away from its roots. While remaining true to its original purpose, the underground incorporates many of the characteristics of the old culture. Artists and participators alike enjoy the subcultures of graffiti, breakdancing, and emceeing in the same fashion as the hip-hop culture in the 70′s and 80′s. The underground also has a major focus on its lyrical content, as did the older hip-hop music, along with emphasis on community, rejuvenation, and rebuilding. Partying, togetherness, self-respect, dedication to self-exposure, and innovation are only a few of the characteristics found in the underground hip-hop sub community.

We will use wordpress as our blogging tool and create an analytical argument to support the underground as that baseline to the hip-hop community. To give the research a lighter approach we will also be incorporating a fun how-to section within the blog to educate the reader on some of the underground styles and features. This will be followed by analytical arguments to support our main claim (stated above). We will be concentrating on graffiti, breakdancing, and music and how they used in underground hip-hop, how they are similar to the old skool hip-hop, and compared the mainstream hip-hop normally seen today.

Upon completion of these comparisons between the underground, old skool hip-hop, and mainstream hip-hop the reader will be able to reach the same conclusions we’ve met in the research; the underground acts congruent with the ways of the original hip-hop culture.

-Ray

The Underground

Our group is also doing a blog for our project. Our claim revolves around the underground hip-hop society acting as a baseline to the hip-hop culture throughout its transformation and acceptance into mainstream society. Supporting the claim with analytical information as well as a fun how-to section into the underground hip-hop society. Our blog address is Here.

-Ray