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    The document provides questions for an assignment on early hip hop music including "Rapper's Delight" and "The Message". It asks about why hip hop became popular in communities like the Bronx, how "Rapper's Delight" was a breakthrough moment, the messages conveyed in the songs, and how "The Message" reflected the social and economic conditions of the Bronx in the 1970s.

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    Assignment #2

    INDS-1107-(40)-24W

    Fanshawe College

    a) Why do you think Hip Hop became so popular with the people in communities
    such as the Bronx?

    - Artists addressed social and political concerns through their hip-hop music.

    b) Public Enemy’s Chuck D refers to “Rapper’s Delight” as “The Big Bang


    moment” for Hip Hop? Why would he believe that?

    c) What is the message behind “Rapper’s Delight”?

    - Good times or having fun

    d) Why do you think “The Message” was given its name? What is its message?

    - This is because the artist wants to express a message about the problem in the
    city through music.
    - The stress of poverty within the city.

    e) What are the images in the song that reflect life in the South Bronx in the
    1970s?

    - The problems that Bronx residents endure emphasise their poverty and lack
    of employment possibilities.

    f) How did “The Message” reflect the social and economic conditions of the
    Bronx in the 1970s

    - Unemployment and poverty

    g) Which one of these songs is closer to DJ Kool Herc’s vision and which one is
    pushing Hiphop in a new direction?

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