![]() African music which supported and stressed a way of life and a cultural identity was forced to encounter a European worldview that did not recognize Africans as humans (Craddock-Willis, 32). ![]() But this is nothing new when we see rap as heritage of an African American musical tradition that has started long before Africans were shipped to America and enslaved there. Throughout the three decades of Hip Hop’s existence, rap music, when politically motivated, has mostly been motivated by disaffection against politics. Rappers have hardly, if at all, supported the system and its representatives until now. The political idol has always been rather Malcolm X than Martin Luther King, rather the radical than the pacifist. Hip Hop as an African American subculture has always referred to the African American roots within the US and has always been founded on distrust against a society and a system that did “not care about black people” (Kanye West on a NBC telethon after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Obgar 2006 71). Since “usic cannot be separated from social, political or cultural context from which it develops” (Ogbar 2007 144) rap music has changed with Obama appearing on the national and international scope. Moreover, and this will form the thesis of this paper, Obama has changed Hip Hop as well. Just by campaigning Obama changed the world’s views on the United States. His words inspired millions all over the world, not only in the US. Nearly 400 years after slavery in the United States (US) begun an African American, actually a man of half African and half American descent, has probably changed the United States forever, just by having been elected.ĭuring his election campaign, he promised hope and change. Nearly 400 years later, on January 20th, 2009, a man whose father came from Kenya and whose mother was from Kansas became the 44th President of the United States of America: Barack Hussein Obama. The legitimacy of bondage was undermined by the Civil War, but the black presence remained, and blacks continued to be victims of the ruthless oppression and exploitation of the white society (Morris 3). Since the first African slaves were brought to Jamestown, USA in 1619, blacks have existed either in complete bondage as bondsman and slaves or in a particular state of semifreedom. "everybody act according to season that they're born in/ some in the night, some in the morning" Young Jeezy - My President is Black feat. POLITICAL RAP EQUALS POPULAR RAP: THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION GUNS, VIOLENCE, DRUGS AND JEWELRY: THE 1990SĤ.1 Gangsta Rap and Black Nationalist Ideasĥ. ![]() HIP HOP AND RAP: CHILDREN OF THE 1970SĢ.3 Hip Hop as a Counter Reaction to the Conditions in the GhettoĤ.
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