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Hip hop music is a form of communication between hip hop artists and their audiences. Rap artists reflect the problems and terrible living conditions in black neighborhoods and express their anger and hopelessness through rap lyrics. Hip Hop music first arose from block parties in the South Bronx section of New York City in the early 1970s. Old school hip hop is the first kind of hip hop music to obtain popularity. A well-known example of old school hip hop is "The Message" (1982) by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. According to the Wikipedia, the group was really famous for their masterful and talented raps during the old school rap era from 1970 to 1985 and "The Message" is one of the skillful raps that they are recognized for. "The Message" is a revolutionary hip hop song in the 1980s because it is one of the first rap song to address the terrifying problems in poor black neighborhoods in order to raise the audiences' awareness of the hopeless situation that working class blacks are in.
There are three kinds of impulses in hip hop music that are common to all African American music forms. They are the gospel impulse, the blues impulse, and the jazz impulse. "The gospel impulse is the belief that life's burdens can be transformed into hope, salvation, the promise of redemption" (Werner, 1). But the blue impulse is only about finding the strength to make it to another day. The difference between the gospel impulse and the blues impulse is that the gospel impulse not only seeks the energy to move on but also promises things will change for the better as opposed to the blues impulse's resignation.
"The Message" contains both the gospel impulse and the blues impulse and that could be referred to as the spiritual blues impulse as defined by Cornel West. The song's chorus, "Don't push me cuz I'm close to the edge" and "It makes me wonder how I keep from goin' under", clearly show that things are going really bad for the artist and he needs...
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