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Hip-Hop
Over the course of history music has been a center piece in every culture. Every genre of music can be linked to a specific culture or demographic group. Within that link one can look at music beyond the sound of it. Music can be seen as an emotion, an inspiration, and a tool for communication.
Within the last 50 years music has become a great unifier of diverse populations (www.csupomona.edu). This is evident in the songs that are written by music artist and groups. Their songs express various societal problems that audiences are living with or can relate with. Music has also become a tool for communication to the masses of a certain demographics. This is extremely evident in the music genre hip-hop.
Since the emergence of hip-hop in 1979, when the Sugar Hill Gang produced the enormously successful song entitled Rapper's Delight (www.csupomona.edu), hip-hop has become a dominant culture force in politics, and marketing by corporations. Recently, hip-hop has......

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