04-26-2008, 01:56 AM
You can get into how Rap/Hip-Hop has worked it's way into the mainstream culture, it's what people dance to in clubs, it's played at sporting events, it gets played in commercials, there are now more popular cliques and supposed "lifestyles" that draw heavily from the hip-hop realm, and you could even pull some comparisons to the disco years, as well as hippies in the 60's and folk music, along with Elvis in the 50's and other artists of the time. You can also get into the little emo/punk/scene kids (defining those on your own of course) and how they are the result of diving head first into a culture centered around a musical genre, and then you talk about prominent artists in the respective genre that you are discussing at the moment. I think that's how I'd tackle a bullshit assignment like that.