The Largest Vocabulary in Hip Hop

A Study on Rap and Profanity

Remix & Citation

Ever since music has gone digital, and even before that, maintaining it as property has been difficult... because of the new connected technologies.  Citation is... looser here than in text.

The music of the future seems to be heading in the direction of a shared form...

Copyright

Copyleft

Bound By Law Comic on Copyright

Creative Commons

The Grey Album by Danger Mouse

Jayz Ft Justin Timberlake - Holy Grail (Official Video ) from HDleakVideos on Vimeo.

Other References to Kurt Cobain in Rap

Blurred Lines Copyright Lawsuit

Nine Inch Nails releases DRM-free album for free

The Wub Machine

Gender Remixer

Marcel Duchamp's L.H.O.O.Q. as a repurposing of da Vinci's Mona Lisa

Commercialism and Politics

Commentary on the Beyonce halftime show


And the Drake Super Bowl commercial

Money & Reviews

Mo Money Mo Problems by The Notorious B.I.G. ft. Puff Daddy & Mase



 

C.R.E.A.M. (Cash Rules Everything Around Me) by Wu-Tang clan

Questlove's Top 50 Hip Hop Tracks of All Time

Check it out by clicking on Questlove

Help For Finding Tropes!

Look in your yellow books on page 181 for kinds of moves.

Or search the Silva Rhetoricae site which is at rhetoric.byu.edu.

But use the Google Search Trick to search the site since the site's search box is broken: site:rhetoric.byu.edu [followed by search terms like repetition to find kinds of repetition]

Or you can just Google around for common tropes, especially in shorter lists, like here, here, and here.

Let me know if you need help.

And here is the MLA guide for citing a song:
http://content.easybib.com/citation-guides/mla-format/how-to-cite-a-musical-recording-mla/

White Privilege II by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

problematic. but interesting.