PVK4-CKC-Week3Lessons

Week 3: HIP HOP WEEK!

This week the Cool Kids Crew has been talking about the origins of hip hop and the concept of representation -- how men and masculinity have been and continue to be represented in hip hop music and culture. We talked earlier in the week about how celebrities represent themselves in terms of their image and style and why they do so. Some of the answers that the CKC came up with included that 'outrageous' celebrities like Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Kanye West, and Afrika Bambaataa dress and portray themselves in certain ways is for attention, to make a statement, or to make their sense of style known.

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Earlier in the week we did an exercise where the students looked at some of the most well-known and influential hip hop songs (and their music videos) from the late 1980s and early 1990s that made statements about important social and cultural issues.

media type="youtube" key="M5EoHOArrk4" height="385" width="480" Ahmir, Deon, and Jared analyzed Queen Latifah's "U.N.I.T.Y."

media type="youtube" key="v-61GRtrtt4" height="385" width="480" Donovan (above) and Zoe (below) analyzed Public Enemy's "Burn Hollywood Burn"

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Niger and Taylor analyzed KRS-1's "You Must Learn"