China rap:
The first generation: "I am going against the wind"
Representative figures: Softhard and Pig Scalp.
The first generation of rap in China occupied 10 years in the 1990s. Although the first generation was a little lonely, the result of single-handedly fighting only paved the way for the second generation of rap, where new humans gathered in 2000.
However, as rappers who record folk life forms in an era of continuous opening up, they are under the same pressure as a revolutionary. With full of melancholy and anger. As Cui Jian sang, "I'm going against the wind ...".
The second generation: "I am a hippie, I exist"
Representative figures: Harpoon Gang, Bruce Lee, LMF, kindergarten killer.
The second generation of rap differs from the first generation in its unique modern cultural concept. Here, anti-judgment and anger are interpreted as hippism, and the social intuition has changed from "it's not that I don't understand, the world is changing rapidly" to "how complicated the situation is and how cruel the reality is".
If rap music used to be just a musical means, then it pretended to be the spokesman of a new culture movement. It contains all the new things you can feel. It is a new force, not limited to music and rhythm. Words are the soul of rap. If you nag after them, it's like reading a declaration of new faces.
social meaning
Since the mid-1980s, rap music has greatly influenced the black and white cultures in North America. Many musical and cultural proverbs sung with percussion rhythm, including terms such as dis, Flying, def, Chilling and wack, have become the standard vocabulary of many young people of different races.
Many fans of scolding assert that scolding, as a function of voice, is impossible for a community to enter the mainstream media. According to advocates, reprimand is used to create self-esteem, self-help and self-improvement. Positive communication and a sense of accomplishment are the main feelings that other American institutions lack.
Political rap artists have aroused interest in the black Muslim movement according to the clear expression of Minister Louis Farahan, which has aroused criticism from those who regard Farahan as a racist. Gangsta severely reprimanded and was criticized for explaining to many people the most violent and misogynistic lyrics in the history of pop music (women hate these lyrics).
The popularity of style is attacked by middle-class whites, just like vicarious is excited to find the most insidious one. Critics point out that violence is not only the universal theme of condemning lyric poetry; Tupac shakur and Bigger Smalls shot down and killed 1996 and 1997 in different gang styles.
Gangsta accused the defender of arguing that music is a legal artistic expression and accurately describes the life in American slums. What is someone's attitude towards these issues? Rap music is undoubtedly a space for slums, which is unprecedented in American history.