"5-4-3-2-1" #.2

5 comments:

I think that’s why I love graffiti so much, because it came from hip-hop!

DJs and Mc’s was the most important thing to hip-hop when it 1st came along.

Run D.M.C, The Beastie Boys, and Def Jam recordings were a reaction against hip-hop in 1984.

Russell Simmons was the 1st great mogul of the rap industry!

Gangsta rap took its toll from L.A. in the 1990s and replaced the ideas of Public Enemy.

4 Questions:

Why was the night clubs were people would DJ and everyone else who wasn’t DJing , private ?

What is California Love?

Why did M.C. Hammer’s career end like a downward slope so rapidly?

Why did Vanilla Ice’s career end like a downward slope so rapidly?

3 vocabulary:

Uncompromised: Unwilling to grant concessions or negotiate; inflexible: took an uncompromising stance during the peace talk.

Counterbalanced: A weight balancing another weight; an equal weight, power, or influence acting in opposition; counterpoise.

Nostalgia: A wistful desire to return in thought or in fact to a former time in one's life, to one's home or homeland, or to one's family and friends; a sentimental yearning for the happiness of a former place or time: a nostalgia for his college days.

2 Litertary Terms:

Irony: Run D.M.C, The Beastie Boys, and Def Jam recordings were a reaction against hip-hop but ironically they moved rap to a higher-level of profitability and public acceptance.

Onomatopoeia: “BAM! BAM! BAM! was all you ever heard.”

1 Overview Sentence:
This part basically talks about the background of DJs and MCs in the night clubs.