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  2. Hip hop and social injustice - Wikipedia

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    Hip hop artists have spoken out in their lyrics against perceived social injustices such as police brutality, poverty, mass incarceration, and the war on drugs. The relationship between hip hop music and social injustice can be seen most clearly in two subgenres of hip hop, gangsta rap and conscious rap . Political hip hop has been criticized ...

  3. Hip hop (culture) - Wikipedia

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    Rapper Ice-T. With the commercial success of gangsta rap in the early 1990s, the emphasis in lyrics shifted to drugs, violence, and misogyny.Early proponents of gangsta rap included groups and artists such as Ice-T, who recorded what some consider to be the first gangsta rap single, "6 in the Mornin'", [67] and N.W.A whose second album Niggaz4Life became the first gangsta rap album to enter ...

  4. Misogyny in rap music - Wikipedia

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    Misogyny in rap music is defined as lyrics, videos, or other components of rap music that encourage, glorify, justify, or legitimize the objectification, exploitation, or victimization of women. It is an ideology that depicts women as objects for men to own, use, and abuse. It reduces women to expendable beings.

  5. Political hip hop - Wikipedia

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    Political hip hop. Political hip hop (also known as political rap) is a subgenre of hip hop music that was developed in the 1980s as a way of turning hip hop into a form of political activism. Political hip hop generally uses the medium of hip hop music to comment on sociopolitical issues and send political messages to inspire action, create ...

  6. Progressive rap - Wikipedia

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    progressive music. underground hip hop. Progressive rap (or progressive hip hop) [nb 1] is a broad subgenre of hip hop music that aims to progress the genre thematically with socially transformative ideas and musically with stylistic experimentation. Developing through the works of innovative US hip hop acts during the 1980s and 1990s, it has ...

  7. Golden age hip hop - Wikipedia

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    Golden age hip hop refers to mainstream hip hop music created from the mid or mid-late 1980s [1][2][3][4] to the early or early-mid 1990s, [1][2][3][4] particularly by artists and musicians originating from the New York metropolitan area. [5] A precursor to the new-school hip hop movement, it is characterized by its diversity, quality ...