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Since its birth three decades ago, Hip Hop has become the most popular musical genre in America. However, Hip Hop composers who use digital sampling are rarely taken seriously by mainstream commentators, and the diverse, yet tight-knit, community of Hip Hop producers is often overlooked by those who study Hip Hop…
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Are we currently losing too many young people to drugs, violence, and sexually transmitted diseases? Studies show that 2.5 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV and 3,643 children under the age of 19 died of gun related injuries in 2000. We at Shaft Entertainment feel these rates are extremely alarming which is why we, in collaboration with our newest artist, Paris Diamond, have created a valuable tool to help children make the right decisions. Shaft Entertainment as well as Paris Diamond, want to change the negative perception people have of hip-hop music. We are one of the few record labels showing that there is positivity in hip-hop.
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Today, Hip-Hop culture dictates trends in everything from fashion and advertising to literature, film and theatre. In the 70s, gifted youth with a lot of imagination forged a new style of music from spare parts. Emceeing was a product of pure streetwise ingenuity, extracting rhythms and melodies from existing records and mixing them up with searing poetry chronicling life as they experienced it. Some emcees spread positive messages and lessons from their hearts while others rhyme about money, sex and drugs, incorporating the good and bad times that surround their existence.