Research

Academic Sources

http://jbs.sagepub.com/content/28/1/3.abstract
“The Chain Remain the Same” Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation
This source provides some of the many different ways hip hop communicates to its listeners. Mainly this article is warning the reader of the disruptions hip hop creates in a seemingly safe world. This article has been cited by many other articles, some that were written about what hip hop teaches its listeners and the misogyny in hip hop.

http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:nDl3r99RfHcJ:scholar.google.com/+hip+hop+violence&hl=en&as_sdt=0,44
How Hip-Hop Holds Blacks Back
This article conveys how hip hip has influenced a man's neighborhood and the black people that live in it. It shows how the party style hip hop of the 70s and the seemingly dark age of hip hop in the 80s molded his neighborhood when the 70s and 80s came along. He goes on to show with statistics and with his observation, how popular hip hop was but how it did nothing to better black culture.

http://uex.sagepub.com/content/41/6/585.short
We Can Relate

This article display how hip hop has helped in education with the use of lyrics to convey “humanities and social sciences”. This article is based only on the one aspect of hip hop but it wants to show the readers that the lyrics can be used as a learning tool. This article has been cited by many other articles that want to show how the hip hop culture to help the youth.

 

 

Blogs

 

http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/articles/

This is an open blog where anybody can make articles about their view on hip hop. This blog talks about every aspect of hip hop including the urban hip hop to the teaching of hip hop. The whole basis of this article is to try conclude what “Hip-Hop” really is.

 

http://www.mysteryofhiphop.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=4&Itemid=9

This blog is trying to show a man's view on hip-hop culture. This blog emphasizes how lyrics and the words of the artists show hip hop's true meanings. He, in one article, explains how people react trying to get into the hip hop business.

 

http://www.mysteryofhiphop.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=6&Itemid=10

This blog is another man's view of the culture of hip hop. He explains how people who are in the hip hop business go there because that is how they want people to see them as. This blog more explains the pride people have when in the hip hop industry.