Feeling the beat: the meaning of rap music for ethnically diverse midwestern college students--a phenomenological study.(Report)

Adolescence | June 22, 2007| | Copyright

Over the past two decades rap music has exploded onto the music scene and become one of the most popular and controversial music genres in America. In 2003 the number-one selling artist, according to Billboard Records, was the former drug dealer and survivor of seven gunshot wounds--rapper 50 Cent. Myriad other rappers shattered the top 50 records sold in 2003, and in 2004 the pattern continued (Billboard Records, 2004). Many rappers, such as PDiddy, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg, are now household names. An example of this was in the 2004 presidential election campaign, when PDiddy ...

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