http://www.centeronaddiction.org/newsroom/press-releases/2011-national-teen-survey-finds
This article shows how teenagers are influenced with drug use and the way social media has changed their perspective of drugs in a positive way making them want to consume it.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/legal-pot/drug-enforcement-administration-will-not-call-reclassifying-marijuana-n628131
This article is about the frequent usage of marijuana and debates whether it should be legal or not. this article focuses on USA states as some states marijuana is legalised and some states are not.
This article is from rolling stone and it focuses on police brutality. After a peaceful march led by Snoop Dogg, the Game and fellow protestors outside LAPD headquarters, the rappers addressed the media and new police officers at an LAPD graduation ceremony. The Game spoke about the universal goal of the police forces in the U.S. and the Black Lives Matter movement, to better communities "from Long Beach to Compton" and all poverty-stricken neighbourhoods. "I have no malice in my heart ... or anger toward anyone police officer," said the Game. "This is a beautiful city that can be one, that was one, that can get back to being one ... I want to tell everyone that I love you no matter what race you're from, where you come from ... whoever you are," he said. "If you are human being, this is a day of change. Snoop Dogg addressed the new officers, saying that the point of the conference "was not to bash the police, but to get some communication." The rapper stressed that this would be the first of many steps communities would need to take to gain mutual understanding. "We want to thank [the officers] because now they can go out and do their jobs ... and have a conversation.
This article is about reggae genre. Collie Buddz who is an American/Bermudian reggae artist. He's not that known worldwide but he was featured in snoop lions video i personally love his music and his music is going to be in my production peace. Collie Buddz is once again conquering the billboard reggae charts. The Bermudan reggae artist has just released his 9 track EP titled Blue Dreamz, which shot straight to #3 on the Billboard Reggae Album Chart.
Examples of Music videos
Snoop Lion - Smoke The Weed ft. Collie Buddz [Music Video]
Dr. Dre - The Next Episode ft. Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Nate Dogg
Dr. Dre - Still D.R.E. ft. Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg - Drop It Like It's Hot ft. Pharrell Williams
Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa "French Inhale"
This article is about the black lives matter campaign as snoop dogg was also involved in the protest. Although racism is seen in only America in the film it is also present in society today all around the world, with recent deaths of black people from police brutality in America is started a campaign called black lives matter. This is set up so that racism in society can stopped which caused recent protests in the UK, London. This caused people to react on social media and to start taking things into their own hands. The protest caused traffic to arise because roads had been blocked by those who were protesting.
This ebook is about marijuana legalisation. Over the next decade, the United States is likely to face a flood of debate and state referendums proposing the legalisation of marijuana production and use. This book will provide readers with a non-partisan primer about the topic, covering everything from the medical definition and benefits and negative consequences of using marijuana, to current laws around the drug, the likely consequences of legalisation at the state and national levels, and ideas about the way that marijuana could be produced and regulated.
A major inquiry led by a group of MPs and peers has concluded that cannabis should be legalised for medical purposes
Presents the life of the Jamaican musician who brought reggae music to world attention, discussing his involvement in Jamaican politics and the Rastafarian religion, and his untimely death from cancer at the age of thirty-six.
Collie Buddz is once again conquering the billboard reggae charts. The Bermudan reggae artist has just released his 9 track EP titled Blue Dreamz, which shot straight to #3 on the Billboard Reggae Album Chart.
The Snoop Dogg Micro G-Pen is a vaporizer exclusively designed for dry herb use only. Part of Grenco Science’s line of artistic series of vaporizers, this model is the latest one endorsed by no other than that American rapper Snoop Dogg.
Black Lives Matter covers the shootings that touched off passionate protests, the work of activists to bring about a more just legal system, and the tensions in US society that these events have brought to light. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Providing a thorough overview of the social and environmental aspects of drug use and misuse, this book explores the variation in the ways recreation and other drugs are used across Europe. Critical reflections on drug policy are included.
This book examines the history of popular drug cultures and mediated drug education, and the ways in which new media - including social networking and video file-sharing sites - transform the symbolic framework in which drugs and drug culture are represented. Tracing the emergence of formal drug regulation in both the US and the United Kingdom from the late nineteenth century, it argues that mass communication technologies were intimately connected to these "control regimes" from the very beginning. Manning includes original archive research revealing official fears about the use of such mass communication technologies in Britain. The second half of the book assesses on-line popular drug culture, considering the impact, the problematic attempts by drug agencies in the US and the United Kingdom to harness new media, and the implications of the emergence of many thousands of unofficial drug-related sites.
Dying to Get High with Susie Bright on Boing Boing! Warring Wines; ’You Want to Fight?’; Nurse Mary Jane in Santa Cruz High Times interviews the authors Alternet excerpt of the book ("How Pot Became Demonized") Discussion from the Santa Cruz Metro Marijuana as medicine has been a politically charged topic in this country for more than three decades. Despite overwhelming public support and growing scientific evidence of its therapeutic effects (relief of the nausea caused by chemotherapy for cancer and AIDS, control over seizures or spasticity caused by epilepsy or MS, and relief from chronic and acute pain, to name a few), the drug remains illegal under federal law. In Dying to Get High, noted sociologist Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb investigate one community of seriously-ill patients fighting the federal government for the right to use physician-recommended marijuana. Dying to Get High combines abstract argument and the messier terrain of how people actually live, suffer and die, and offers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing debates over the legalization of medical marijuana.
The first major account of the history of reggae, black music journalist Lloyd Bradley describes its origins and development in Jamaica, from ska to rock-steady to dub and then to reggae itself, a local music which conquered the world. There are many extraordinary stories about characters like Prince Buster, King Tubby and Bob Marley. But this is more than a book of music history: it relates the story of reggae to the whole history of Jamaica, from colonial island to troubled independence, and Jamaicans, from Kingston to London.
In this first musicological history of rap, Cheryl L. Keyes traces the genre's history from its roots in West African bardic traditions, the Jamaican dancehall tradition, and African American vernacular expressions to its permeation of the cultural mainstream as a major tenet of the hip-hop lifestyle.
This ebook describes how Dr Dre was moulded into one of the world's greatest hip hop producers, this biography chronicles his rise to success, beginning with when he was three years old. It details his days as a DJ, showing how he mixed and spun his way to the top using Grandmaster Flash as his catalyst and eventually embarked on his destiny.
This ebook investigates the occurrence of these two features in Snoop Dogg’s lyrics from his first album “Doggystyle” and his latest album “Bush” and if they decreased or increased with time. Since music plays such a huge part in African American culture it should be possible to see these features of AAVE in the lyrics. The analysis will contain 16 rap songs from Snoop Dogg’s first album Doggystyle from 1993 and 10 rap songs from his latest album Bush from 2015. English is a language with many varieties and also one of the most spoken languages in the world. The varieties of English are results of colonial expansion and may differ from each other in terms of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar. African American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety that people associate with as the language used by the black community. The additional term vernacular refers to the speech style in everyday communication and differentiates black African American Vernacular English speakers from black speakers of Standard English. Especially in rap and hip-hop music the number of black performers is very high since it was introduced as a new music genre. The style of language that is used in hip-hop lyrics is highly influenced by the African Americans. AAVE is a variant of English that you can hear every day on the radio or television for example and that also makes it so interesting to analyze its use, features and origin.
Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg have teamed for the VH1 series Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party (premiering Nov. 7 at 10 p.m. ET). The new half-hour weekly series features the two personalities hosting outrageous dinner parties with some even more outrageous collection of guests, including Kathy Griffin, Wiz Khalifa, Seth Rogen, Ashlee Simpson, Evan Ross and Robin Thicke.
This Companion covers the hip-hop elements, methods of studying hip-hop, and case studies from Nerdcore to Turkish-German and Japanese hip-hop.
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Drawing on such primary sources as court cases and excerpts from speeches, examines twelve ethical controversies related to the music industry, including drug abuse references in music and the influence of violent lyrics on young listeners.
Describing how Dr Dre was moulded into one of the world's greatest hip hop producers, this biography chronicles his rise to success, beginning with when he was three years old. It details his days as a DJ, showing how he mixed and spun his way to the top using Grandmaster Flash as his catalyst and eventually embarked on his destiny.
Womack, Y. (2010). How a new generation is redefining African American identity. Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books.
Page 5 intro - "hip-hop, the voice of the streets"
This is a way for those who are living in urban areas where no one can express or tell the story of how they survive but those who rap and come from similar backgrounds. Rap is a way for people to tell their story which the news doesn't show.
Porter, M. (2006). Rap and the eroticizing of music videos. Chicago, IL: African American Images
Page xi - “miseducation and racism has given rise to black poverty, crime, and other destructive behaviour”
Page 6 - “negative rap songs and their accompanying videos often instil erotic sadism in the black male child”
The rap videos that people are viewing will initially influence them to recreate that exact lifestyle or bring the lyrics to life such as selling drugs or killing people to gain recognition or the glamour which is supposedly received when doing so in a rap song or video. This is why people start to dress like thugs and behave in a particular manner which the police see to be threatening or stereo typically accurate. This is why they may go and search those who fit this stereotypical image to prevent anything like this from happening.
