Publication Type
Magazine Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
1-2019
Abstract
I was 14 when I found out I was no good at singing. Coincidentally, at this same age I decided to try my luck at rapping. It was all a bit out of left field—I was trying to make a kind of music I would’ve been reprimanded for even listening to.
Hip-hop is notoriously embedded with negative connotations. Personally, I find it a bit comical when people believe that writing poetry is fine; however, as soon as you put those poems over a beat, you’re thought of as someone who could be materialistic, misogynistic, in a gang, or who abuses illegal substances.
Through this commentary, I hope to offer an insight into how hip-hop culture has uplifted me through my teenaged years (I turn 18 by the time this is published), and why it continues to empower and inspire me as a creative individual.
Discipline
Music
Publication
Social Space
Publisher/Conference
Lien Centre
Copyright Owner and License
Lien Centre for Social Innovation
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Citation
Singh, Ishan.
Hip-hop: Listen and be the judge. (2019). Social Space. 64-67.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lien_research/175
Additional URL
https://socialspacemag.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Social_Space_The_Arts_Issue_Part_1.pdf