Hip Hop Matters (1- 51)

Summary
Hip Hop started to out number other music genres between the years 1989. Raps Market increased tremendously over time. Age groups starting at 10 to 29 years old were buying hip hop/ rap Cd's. Because hip hop was the music most people were listening to at the time, pop princesses like Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera began to incorporate hip hop producers, performers, and choreographers so that they would be able to stay on top of their game and stay current and fresh in the Hip Hop movement. People were not really interested in the music itself but they were interested in the technology used to create the different beats and to make the music. Two guys named Michael Shalett and Michael Fine created a new invention called the soundscan. Fine and Shalett had to make a business out of the SoundScan so the asking price for this product was 800,000. They had to create alot of business and provide information about the new product they were trying to sell because the asking price was a lot of just a system. In the late 1992, Interscope and Death Row let out their first album by Dr. Dre called The Cronic. This title was referred to Marijuana which was what Death Row members smoked while working on their music. Hip Hop was including drugs into their work.

Quotation
"The album's title was a reference to an especially potent blend marijuana that many of Death Row's key figures enjoyed smoking while they worked and played" (Watkins 48).

Reaction
This quote made me think that as early as 1992, Hip Hop was already starting to get based upon drugs already. They were so use to smoking marijuana that they wrote songs about it and played around while smoking it. This also made me think that Hip Hop/rap songs now in 2010, they still take about drugs in their songs and they all talk about those types of things in their songs and they make money off it. Those songs also influence kids at a young age because at the age of 10 they were buying rap Cd's and learning the songs, so just at the age of 10 they were learning about marijuana and things like that.