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Straight Outta Compton Best Bio Pic Since Ray

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Compton is back Audiences lined up for the debut bio pic   Straight Outta Compton .  The film chronicles the background history of the group N.W.A, its members, and the dynamics of their relationships with each other, from the band's inception, to growing success and stardom until the eventual disbanding. Straight Outta Compton  is a 2015 American bio pic directed by F. Gary Gray and screen written by rapper. The films revolves around the rise and fall of the Compton, California hip hop group N.W.A, and borrows its title from the name of N.W.A's 1988 debut studio album. The film was released on August 14, 2015. After finally seeing   Straight Outta Compton   I decided to write a review. I was going to just put a brief synopsis of the movie during the time it trended worldwide, but I wanted to see if the movie lived up to the hype, and it definitely did.   Straight Outta Compton   is the best bio pi...

Should Hip Hop Have Labels? Conscious VS Trap

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Conscious VS Trap After Vince Staple tweet about not wanting to be placed in the conscious rap label last Wednesday evening, Hip Hop heads voiced their opinion on the sub labels of hip hop. I am highly offended by the term conscious rap don't associate me with that. — Vince Staples (@vincestaples) August 12, 2015 This brings me to talk about the topic. Should hip hop have sub genres? Hip Hop was founded on the fun of mixing together music with rhymes and developed into storytelling, word play, political power etc... The culture of hip hop will always include the elements of  DJs to turn the tables, a microphone to spit the bars, graffiti to paint the images, and the infinite break dancing. Introduced in the late 70's were hip hop pioneer groups like, the Sugar Hill Gang, who were the first hip hop group to enter into mainstream media with the classic anthem "Rappers Delight," which expressed pure fun, funkadelic beats, rhymes, and basic flow. During th...