Hip-Hop & Country Music

Country music can relate to Hip-Hop in just a few ways things like who are the lyrics dedicated to. In Hip-Hop all songs don't talk about death, killing, sex or drugs..they talk about being mistreated; women being mistreated. Artist like Common, Tupac, Biggie and Dolla talk about things that people can relate to. Kanye West doesn't always talk about bitches and hoes and he's an up-to-date artist Wale is a story teller who also is up-to-date; that's what Hip-Hop is all about having your fans relate to your music. Country music is for an everyday person it's simple music that you can relate to also. Country music has their own stations on television that are dedicated to that type of music and so does Hip-Hop. they have a station called MTV Jams where they play Hip-Hop and a minimum amount of R&B they have shows that are dedicated to MC's (Who's the best MC?) Country music and Hip-Hop can relate they just have totally two different people listening to them.

Popular Culture Media

In class we discussed how popular culture media pertains to our culture and one point that stood out the most was how popular culture media is unhealthy. Jersey Shore was a good point, people don't go out and party everyday they get up and go to work or school. That show is a made up scripted "reality show" and I put reality in quotations because it's not what you do in everyday life. Steven Johnson pointed out that his nephew helped him figure out how to play the Sims game; it's a game based on balancing your city, how to make your city a good place to stay by having jobs and good security. The Sims game would make us more aware on how we could elect better people for our country because we know (or the people that play the Sims game) know more about planning and providing for our city, state, and country. These days no one plays The Sims game as much as they did when it came out most people are either playing Basketball games or War games and the war games these days are terrifying there's more blood and you can see that killing is more precise then it was when you played the duck game on Nintendo. In high school teachers refuse to update the way they teach because that's the only way they know how to communicate. Students use Spark Notes and end up reading a book that they have for half a semester in just a few hours because of Spark Notes. Ryan who was being Cyber Bullied learned how to kill his self from a website. Teens text while their driving because they feel like they can do both, they don't think about dying they think about getting the message out. Popular Culture Media is not making us any healthier so that's why I think it's unhealthy for us.