From the works of beatbox flautist Greg Patillo to the innovative remixed dance style of the French performance troupe Big City Brains we can see that Hip-hop is not dead. So what does the future of Hip-hop look like? Hip-hop's impact on global popular culture is undeniable. From inspiring social change to re-inscribing negative image of women in the media, Hip-hop reveals the good, the bad and the ugly of all of aspects of society. Where do you think Hip-hop will be in the next 10 years? In your freestyle blog this, reflect on your relationship to Hip-hop and its impact on the world. What does the future hold? You can respond in any way you like narratives, images, sound, etc.
Throughout our class we have discussed hip-hop coming up in several different ways, but we never really discussed beat boxing. Beat boxing seems like it is a spin off of DJing. There are several amazing videos on YouTube that have beat boxers featured from all over the world. There are annual beat box competitions in many countries thus showing the global side of beat boxing. Here is a really cool clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3r-dt3OpZc.
ReplyDeleteHip hop has been modernized over the past few decades from improvements in sound and images, to CDs and newer styles of graffiti. This improvement will only continue in the future and improvise from its older artistic elements. One element of hip hop that has not been widely discussed for the future is of graffiti. Graffiti has moved from the streets into museums and galleries all over the country and world. It has extended to sculptures, images, and pictures. One form of art that is related to graffiti and can be considered a new form is chalk art. Although chalk art is a legal form of graffiti that is often done in public spaces, it can be used to express political and social protests as well as show off their artistic expression. Here’s an example of chalk art: http://www.impactlab.net/2006/03/09/amazing-3d-sidewalk-art-photos/
ReplyDeleteHere is a video of the hip-hop granny from China. This is pretty awesome!
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I think that the future of hip hop will be focused on further legitimizing the genre by applying it to several platforms, yet that will be successful only if we somehow change the world consciousness by being more aware of what hip hop is actually capable of. One thing that struck me in class was the Israeli-born violinist as well as Black Violin. I think that those types of acts are going to be good in having musical institutions and schools try to understand how hip hop can help apply kids into their programs, garner more support from communities and parents etc. But that all comes down to those communities and parents understanding how important hip hop is for their kids/future generations. In terms of how the world understands hip hop, I think that the commodification of hip hop itself needs to be a little more honest. From all of the countries that we've looked at, there is a severe lack of youth voice; they are either inhibited by lack of resources (school initiatives, communities) or because they are suppressed within in the discourse of their country. China, for example, is undoubtedly reactionary in a vast majority of their government, economics and social systems. The government rigorously censors the internet, and television (even within East-Asia as a whole) is pretty docile in terms of the content of entertainment; there are a lot more top 40 pop songs about love and nostalgia than there are about social awareness. The general discourse and even the economics highly orient themselves towards homogeneousness, and so a lot of people who speak up will be severely ostracized: Look at recent Nobel Prize winner Liu Xiaobo... So if we are somehow able to make the commodification of Hip Hop a little more honest, or show more than just the Thug Lifers and Cat Daddies, then I think that we can have a more complete picture of hip hop.
ReplyDeleteI think the future of hip-hop looks pretty good! It is crazy to see just how far hip-hop has come in the last thirty years. I think we will see a much larger global spread of hip-hop. I don't think there can be much more commodification, because hip-hop is absolutely everywhere in the advertisinig business. The fashion will continue to cycle through and styles of self-adornment will probably get more lavish. I hope to see more bonding of cultures and see some empowerment in women through hip-hop. I also can't wait to see what happens in the hip-hop theater world. I cannot begin to explain how different I have come to see hip-hop through this course!
ReplyDeleteHip-hop will continue to be successful because it keeps reinventing itself with new twists to it. I believe that it will continue to grow and develop into more advanced ideas because there is still room to grow. It has impacted people from all over the world in many different countries, which says a lot about how well-liked it is. In this video, they talk about the history of hip-hop and what it really means. People today think that it is what they see and hear on the radio, but it really is much deeper than that. They feature the Hip-Hop Culture Center in Harlem, NY which is where the collection of hip-hop history is all collected and shown to the public. This is what hip-hop is truly all about.
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Maybe it will be like THIS! Trip Hop is what its called…weird beats mixed with techno and optical illusion images mixed with really cool graffiti. Its odd for sure but definitely a creative mix.
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After learning so much in the class, and realizing how far hip-hop has came today, I think it only has great things to look forward to in the future. Hip hop is not just a focus on music, but everything around us. When we look at fashion or art on the trains, we will see individuals expressing themselves through hip hop. Hip hop is an “out” for many people. Instead of getting into trouble or running the streets, some will use hip hop to their advantage. They will do this by listening to music with their friends, battling to see who has the best rhymes, or even going to concerts just to have good time. When I look into the future, I think that more women will be in the industry. I think there will be more MC’s to come and that they will influence our young girls to get involved. Nicki Minaj is one of the greatest MC’s right now in hip hop and has a big influence on young girls. She worked hard to get where she is, even though some people disagree. Below is a video that contains some clips from Nicki’s interview “It’s My Time”. In this interview Minaj really opens up and tells how her struggles have come to an end as a girl because hip hop gave her an out.
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If we looked at hip-hop ten years ago, odd are we would have never predicted what it is today. Looking ahead in the future ten years from now hip-hop impossible to predict. Hip-hop has proven that is here to stay and it has changed with the times. I can only image where it will go next. With more youth stars becoming big, with the rising of pop music and with the use of auto-tune the music itself could make quite a transition in the upcoming years. Styles will continue to become more extreme, but they will always be looked at as “in.” There will continue to be different styles of self adornment, braggadocio, and new ways to show their hierarchy. Songs will continue to be a way of expression, as issues will come and go. Fads will come and go, but hip-hop will always find a way to be apart of them. Just look at something that you could never imagine hip-hop effecting. Ten years from now, look at it again.
ReplyDeleteAs I have learned more and more about hip-hop this semester I have realized that it is much more intellectual than I perceived. The lyrics and the beats are the outcome of a lot of work, talent, and dedication. This is also true for many other music genres. I think in the future artists from different genres will also realize hip-hop's ability to rely intelligent messages in a way that makes people want to listen, and reach out to it. We will see more collaborations between hip-hop artists and artists from rock, country, classical, and other types of music. The collaborations will allow audiences from the other genres to "come to hip-hop". Because hip-hop has been so successful for multiple decades now, I think it will continue to grow and gain an even larger audience.
ReplyDeleteI think the future of hip hop is going to be very interesting to watch unfold, considering the major progressions that have been made already in the past 25 years. We have watched the form of which we accumulate music go from tapes, to cds and now to digital downloads; and watched artists adhere to the changes along the way. Now that putting music out there is so easy to do, it is going to become increasingly difficult for us to pick out the true talent. We can no long rely on the radio to play everything we want to hear, we will have to search harder on our own and learn where to find what we like through word of mouth and other avenues. I think that the globalization of hiphop will continue even further. Many countries have been merely imitating American styles of hip hop, but over time will be able to form their techniques to their own cultural struggles. From this will come yet another expansion of hip-hop and diversify the genre. My generation is the first generation to live our entire lives in a world with hip hop. We will take our generations love for this music into our own future. It is fascinating to think that we may be playing people like Jay-Z, Kanye West or Queen Latifa for our own kids and they will be thinking that they are the oldies. I think hip-hop in our generation will be a lot like rock and roll from our parent’s generation. Hip-hop will continue to change as time goes by, but is definitely here to stay.
ReplyDeleteHip-hop instrumental piano.
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It will be interesting to see how hip-hop will continue to expand and transform in the next few years.
I have learned so much about Hip-hop in this class. There are so many elements and themes represented through Hip-hop that I had never actually taken the time to just sit back and think about before. It is impossible to predict the future of anything. I do believe though that Hip-hop will only continue to grow. Styles and trends will continue to change with that growth as it has in the past. Just as we see today, as trends change, they will still continue to sample from others. As Hip-hop continues, artists sampling will become more diverse and expand the audience of Hip-hop.
ReplyDeleteAs I had mentioned in last weeks blog, I see hip-hop as the melting pot of American music. So many different cultures have come together to produces the various types of sounds we hear today. Today’s hip-hop is breaking all the rules as it is showing up in just about every type of music imaginable; in some cases because of its popularity and in others ways because it is such a versatile media. However, not every change is good. Lately I feel a lot of half hearted music has been produced by the popular few with the actual thought out and well scripted music getting hid in the background. What goes around comes back around, we are seeing that a lot today in fashion so maybe the music ten years from now will be going back to the beginning and starting all over. I wouldn’t mind seeing the “ghetto blasters” like the ones shown in week 15’s picture coming back!
ReplyDeleteHip hop has come along way in 30 years and it keeps finding new way to re invite itself every year keeping the hip hop alive. With its global out reached in the last 3 decades we see hip hop in our every day lives even if we don't realizes it yet. I do think that in the next 10 years from now hip hop will continue to grow and keep re inviting itself and or come up with a new way to express hip hop.
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this is a new form of dj-ing using Ipads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHPmcU13_mU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5064qLjxqM
I think that in a general sense hip-hop has become so attached to the American mainstream that it will continue to grow and expand according to the capitalist framework of the music industry. There is certainly something to be said for underground hip-hop artists working towards real structural change, but I see many hip-hop artists beginning to represent America in problematic, mass produced, and profit-driven ways. Although hip-hop has certainly "remixed the American Dream," we have learned throughout American history that there is not an equality of opportunity in our nation. Hip-hop can maintain its potency and relevancy by both commenting on and building upon its own history, which is a history of extraordinary accomplishment in the face of extreme inequality.
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ReplyDeleteBryan “Birdman” Williams apparently thinks books are the next big thing for hip-hop. Recently Cash Money signed a book deal with Simon & Schuster Atria Books.
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.12845/title.cash-money-signs-publishing-deal-with-atria-books
Also a look at Jay-Z and his new book Decoded.
http://www.jay-z.com/2010/09/decoded-by-jay-z/
It's obvious that Hip-Hop has staying power, but in regards to its future and how Hip-Hop will evolve, there is still quite a bit of mystery. Comparing the sights and sounds of Hip-Hop at its beginning with the Hip-Hop and "Hip-Hop" of today further demonstrates this point. As technology in music, Hip-Hop fashion, and Hip-Hop-based trends all evolve, Hip-Hop will evolve with it. The main point however, is that Hip-Hop will continue to stick around, and may even find some new outlets as it seems to be the new business trend to add a Hip-Hop spin to just about everything. Here's an example of Hip-Hop.. weather?
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As Mc's in Hip-Hop continue to get bigger, they will no doubt continue to collaborate with each other to push Hip-Hop into the future. Here is a good example...
ReplyDeleteKanye West and Jay-Z "Watch The Throne"
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1650855/20101026/west_kanye.jhtml
As we went over many of the different style of hip hop with different classical instrument like the violin and flute. I found these hip-hop drummers and thought they were pretty talented.
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Hip-Hop artists investing their money in oil...
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From the many things I have learned this semester in THR 380 I think the future of hip-hop will be a progressive one. I did not realize prior to this course all the impacts that hip-hop had on society and the many different forms it came in. I feel that hip-hop will continuously grow throughout time and will keep changing as the world continues to change. Hip-hop will learn to express itself any more ways as more opportunities come available to the genre. In the next 10 years I think hip-hop will be a part of society much more than it is today. Hip-hop no matter how much you incorporate yourself in it somehow makes a way into your life in some way, shape, or form.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I am not the biggest fan of the artist Juvenille he has an interesting take on the future of Hip-hop. You can listen to it here::
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The past trends I have seen in hiphop only have lead me to the idea that production will be playing a larger role in the music than the actual artists. Newer technologies, as they are released, impact the music engineering world drastically. In the future, I predict an even more artificial sound with added depth via sampling and programming. Sound engineering is a growing field, and within time, with proper implementation, will change the way we listen to music, all together.
ReplyDeleteTo me Hip-hop will always involve and shape itself in different ways. One road I see hip-hop going down is the Kanye way with autotune and massive movie productions like his "Runnaway" music video. I also see women being more involved now since Nikki Manji has gained fame due in part to Young Money. That is also something that will become more popular, Music groups such as Young Money, G.O.O.D. Music, Roc Nation and T.I.'s crew.
ReplyDeleteThe future of hip hop is very stable in my mind. During class lecture on Monday December 6, I was amazed by the diverse nature hip hop has come to be in our society. The transformation of hip hop from its inception to its current state has a lot of similar characteristics to the topics discussed in western civ. classes. Hip Hop was born in the streets of New York based on a collective group who knew they could transform the music game with a fusion of jazz and funk. For a long time stereotypes and negative societal connotations were a part of hip hop. The similarity of hip hop and western civilization can be seen with the fight for the feminists and civil rights movements. There were strong leaders at the forefront. The movements eventually became public policy and society caught up to the forward thinking. Hip Hop is a main stay in society, as evident with the role hip hop plays in advertising, athletics and fine arts.
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