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Visibility Others can see my Clipboard. As the music industry has started to recognize hip hop music more, successful hip hop artists have used their music as a way to communicate about being black in America. With their platform, artists like Kanye West and Beyonce have used their success to express the difficulties of being African American.

As Kanye has transitioned as an artist, now with a family and children, his music has changed with him. While he is still able to emotionally connect with his audience and speak about culture, listeners can now hear how Kanye has looked past black adversity and is thankful for his current blessings. Civic life gives celebrities the powers to be influential, but these figures, in turn, have the ability to use it at their discretion.

Kanye West is a member of society that has not held back his opinions on civic issues. So while West is now the focus of a class at a university, his contributions to shaping opinion and the ways in which to approach civic issues related to his own personal experiences as a black American, are not unnoticed. His views may not always align with public majority, but perhaps, he has put them out there in hopes that the public itself will form an opinion on the issues that affect each of us.

More than ever, the opinion of the people needs to be heard, and by taking a voice and getting involved, civic life could play a role in changing the result of civic issues. Need an account? Click here to sign up. Download Free PDF. Julius D.

Regina N Bradley. Yet the Hip Hop scholarship in The Cultural Impact of Kanye West, just like the Hip Hop artist, is versed by various academics, music professionals, and cultural connoisseurs using different cultural and theoretical approaches.

Hip Hop scholars, much like producers, avid fans, or backpackers,15 must roll up their sleeves and dig down into the volumes of the music that inspire us. The medium is equally important. We have to take the question of technology seriously. From new technology comes a new sense of being. Books transformed our sense of time the way we think of character and their emotions. Here is the crisis for our generation.

If books have come under attack by realist critics, movies faulted for feigning reality with talking robots and aliens, and the Internet slammed for its vast and uncensored knowledge, what serves us best as a mirror of our condition? Or precisely, how will we speak about the conditions of our bodies and the moods we embody in the technological world we find ourselves in?

With the fight over what constitutes the appropriate knowledge within our institutional walls, books, movies, the Internet, no wonder education has become less relevant for a contemporary-generation feelings cheated by pricey fragments that are qualified by a diploma.

But before we dismiss Kanye West as being egoistic or pompous, we must excavate his catalogue and uncover the best of what we can learn from him even in his most outrageous escapades. He extends the trajectory of hip-hop beyond the comic style of Biz Markie,16 and artistically situates himself among the late African American painters Romare Bearden,17 Jean-Michel Basquiat,18 and the New York painter and social activist Keith Haring.

It was taken by phone on July 15 and 23, Lore claims he would walk around in the daytime with a torch looking for wise and honest men. For Buber, the I-You relationship is through language, or as he argues, language creates an inter-subjective. In other words, I cannot know how a cup feels on the inside when I pour hot water in it, but I can know what another human feels on the inside when he drinks hot tea and explains to me how that heat feels.

Each experience is meaningful, drinking too hot water forces one to be cautious in future encounters with it. Usually a college-aged suburban kid of any race dreadlocks optional who discovered his consciousness at school and dives blindly into underground hip-hop and hates all commercially successful styles of rap music, not realizing that the artists he worships are trying to sell records too.

By Cameron Khalfani Herman. By Tommy J Curry.