Below are some useful links for Chicano Rap
1) http://groups.msn.com/mexicancentral/chicanorap.msnw
This site talks a lot about the founders of Chicano Rap.
2) http://www.chicanorapriders.com/index.php?p=1_5
This site contains recent news articles that pretain to Chicano Rap.
3)http://www.answers.com/topic/chicano-rap?cat=entertainment
This site talks about the history and background of Chicano Rap.
Allison
Here’s a couple of the more well known underground hip hop artist’s around the states, some of the revolutionary hip hop artist’s as well. Then a bit of the london / britan area artist’s with a music video by The Streets – Stay Positive
East Coast
De la soul – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=56459282
Talib Kweli – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=22053298
A Tribe Called Quest – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=20900215
Kool Keith – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=23414960
West Coast
The Visionaries – http://www.myspace.com/visionaries
Dilated Peoples – http://youtube.com/watch?v=nR0VwHGnPv4
Pigeon John – http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cq5EOejrQwE
Blackalicious – http://youtube.com/watch?v=1A0BmbiM53Q
Jurrassic 5 – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=17911058
International
The Streets – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=2536242
Shystie – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=86582709
Roots Manuva – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=41115297
Klashnekoff – http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=75936662
-Ray
The roots of crunk music trace itself back to rappers who recognize themselves as “dirty south” rappers. The rappers attributed with the start of the trend are the group known as the Goodie Mob. It is not the same as the general term Southern Rap, as that term encompasses all hip-hop music that bases its roots in the South. Rather, crunk music and ‘dirty south’ rap, are characterized by bouncy/upbeat tempos, ‘club-friendly’ songs, heavily rhythmic lyrics, etc. Bank City Music Group, is a label most commonly attributed to producing ‘crunk’ or ‘dirty south’ trip-hop.
The term crunk apparently has multiple connotations depending on its audience. To the more reserved crowd, crunk is the term referring to being CRazy and drUNK, thus combining the words to create CRUNK. However, others view the term crunk to be a reference to smoking marijuana (chronic) while being drunk… CHRUNK? Various other combinations of drug use and drunkenness exist as definitions to the term crunk. All in all, the term seems to encapsulate being highly intoxicated to a point beyond normal drunk behaviour. This party-goer attitude lends itself in the lyrics and musical style found in crunk music.
Lil Jon’s song have a strong relations to southern dirty raps, but he took it to the next level. it contains high dance tempos, and explicit lyrical content. And he became well known fro his famous chants and excessive ineterjection commonly “what?” “yeah” “let’s go”
The quote in the title of this post is directly from the link below:
http://www.common-music.com/bio/
This is the link to Common’s website, and more specifically his career biography.
-Emily
I’m not really that familiar with Chicano rap, so I decided to start googling and see what would come up. I came across three websites that I think will become useful as we continue our research:
1. www.chicanorapmag.com- this is the official website for Chicano Rap Magazine, a publication devoted to this subculture; articles range from profiles on artists to new music, a broad array of topics on Chicana rap.
2. www.homiezmusic.com/videos.html- I don’t really know what Chicano music really is, so this website proved to be a good introduction. There were several links to YouTube videos of Chicano artists.
3. www.brownpride.com- this is a website dedicated to celebrating Chicano culture; there are some sections on music, but it is better utilized as a source about the Chicano lifestyle.
–Candace
or watch a fox news forcast on chicano rap at http://youtube.com/watch?v=bsqSTZSJjZQ
The Chicano Rap movement is a movement that was first begun by the Latin americans that grew up in similar environments as the many individuals that are continuing to become part of typical Hip-Hop today.
Hip-hip is now experiencing a growing base of Latino rapper, thus creating chicano rap. Chicano rap focus on much of what the typical “black” rap focuses on (such as money, status, etc) but also tend to focus more on portraying the community in which they were brought up in.
-ALI MUSTAFA
That commercial sensibility combined with their political intention…produced rap nationalism’s founding fathers: Public Enemy. This is not to suggest that the groups formation was completely a smooth process. For Example, when deliberating over the concept and constitution of “Public Enemy, Bill Sptephney objected to the inclusion of William Drayton as “Flavor Flav,” contending that Drayton’s comedic personality jeopardized the potent dynamic of the group. (Stepheys instincts as the groups founder were partially correct. College educated black fans criticized Flaoer Flaves’s role in the group because, as Chuck D explained, ” They didn’t understand the psychology behind it.”) The other artists believed that Flave was just what Public Enemy needed. They felt as Stephney recalls qqouting the classic Disney musical Mary Poppins, that a “spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.” S They believed that if Public Enemy was going to be a hard hitting, militant political group, Flavor Flav could help balance out the group. (Cheny76-77) Brothers Gonna Work it
This worked for Public Enemy and the reason was the addition of Flav. He brought a funny side to the group, a crazy side that made the group balanced. They are in the music business, seriousness doesn’t appeal to all audiences.
Tom
Here are two YouTube videos by Public enemy and a link to an article from googlescholar about revolutionary hip-hop
http://www.youtube.com/v/CuTi9UZtPbw&hl=en
http://www.nodo50.org/cubasigloXXI/congreso04/haworth_290204.pdf
