Hip hop songs
1)music element;
The hip hop developed their own culture; their subculture was categorized into four key elements of music that are breakdance, graffiti arts, rap music, tattoo, and disc jockey, for example, DJ Kool Herc. These elements have other aspects of music from hip hop that is the turntables which were used to extend the instrumental breaks in popular music genre such as funk as well as soul, among others. Another musical element was bass lines from records as well as rhythmic break boxing, for instance, vocal wordsmithing and rhythmically spoken rhyming poetry, which lead to rap.
Meanwhile, these elements from hip hop forebears stretch back through disco, street funk, radio DJs, Bo Diddley, the bebop singers, Cab Calloway, Pigmeat Markham, the tap dancers as well as comics.
2) socio-political context;
These songs hip hop songs were sung to convey both social and political factors that are hindering the societies globally. However, this type of song in the first scenario was sung by El Général, a Tunisian. The Tunisian rapper posted his song through social media the son was called “Mr. President, Your People Are Dying” was mainly passing massages that there were no employments. The song hip hop was sung mainly to mobilize people; for example, the song from El Général brought tension globally and later latter contributed to the overthrowing of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Al. These rappers and hip hop singers passed messages to people, which lead to government crackdown through censoring. Hip hop helps in “glocalization” which is referred to us as the adaptation of global processes to local circumstances.
Moreover, the kind of music genre help in mass media and worldwide trade as well as communications. Furthermore, hip hop has boosted technology globally. The sounds and images of hip-hop culture traverse the world via the internet and other communication media and become adapted to local use. In the case of hip-hop, a music genre, and a fashion that carries general oppositional connotations, local media producers use it to challenge perceived local injustices.
3) meaning (emotions and ideas being communicated).
Hip hop is also referred to as rap music. However, the global hip-hop phenomenon is an interesting example of a cultural pattern called “glocalization,” the hip hop is a type of music genre of popular music that emerged from the United States by inner-city African Americans as well as Latino Americans. The hip hop music started in the 1970s, and they were unable to record them due to the poverty level in Africa as well as in African Americans. This kind of genre was meant to pass messages to the government. This type of music consists of some musical elements such as rapping, rhythmic break boxing, among others. The glocalization refers to the adaptation of global processes to local circumstances. Hip-hop, as a music genre and a fashion that carries general oppositional connotations, the local media producers use hip hop to challenge perceived local injustices.