Planning - 1980's vs 1990's Hip-Hop

1980's & 1990's Hip-Hop

1980's Hip-Hop

Hip - Hop first started taking off in the 80's. 80's Hip-Hop was largely about the standard of life which the artists grew up with. The music videos for 80's Hip-Hop was seen as controversial because it showed a way of life which other people did not want to see, such as people urinating in the street shown in the song 'the message'. They also spoke about social problems such as racism, this was a problem for people at the time because people wanted to believe that they had moved past racism and wanted to ignore the fact that it still existed.

 

1990's Hip-Hop

Hip-Hop in the 90's was very different to the Hip-Hop of the 80's. The 90's introduced artists such as Snoop Dogg, Dr Dre, 2-pac, Notorious B.I.G etc. The artists of 90's Hip-Hop music was controversial because they were all about participating in activities which were taboos frowned upon by the rest of the public. In their songs they would glamourize criminal activities such as selling and doing drugs, gangs, firearms etc. They would glamourize these things by suggesting that these activities would bring you money and women.

Where 80's music videos showed the way of life which the artists lived, the artists would suggest that they would to get away from that way of life and live a better standard of life. The 90's music videos implied that the artists enjoyed the way of life they lived and was seen as trying to encourage more people to join the same life as them.