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The Heist: Macklemore’s Hold on Homosexuality in Hip-Hop
“If I was gay, I would think Hip Hop hates me.” Not quite, Macklemore. People still hate you. Sunday night’s Grammy Awards sparked an uproar as breakthrough rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis’s seven nominations landed them four wins. Taking over the music industry with their 2012 album The Heist, selling over 1.5 million records, […]
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Drake is Postmodern Rap
Postmodernism is a term to describe the time period following or emerging from the modern era. Postmodernism turned modernity on its head. If modernism believes we can know reality, postmodernism believes that we are confused with illusions, images and images of images. If modernism saw a turn towards stylistic purity, postmodernism made a drastic […]
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