【SAT写作】美国高中生观点型写作范文赏析--What Happened to Hip-Hop?

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HIP-HOP翻译成“街头说唱”这个词最合适，是一种极具文化色彩的音乐风格，很多年轻人都很喜欢这样的风格。我们来看看一篇HIP-HOP相关的文章。

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What Happened to Hip-Hop?

Hip-Hop has to be one of the most influential genres of music. It has been

around for a quite a long time, about 40 years, and it has gone through a lot of

changes throughout the years. It started out as a way to spread information that

wasn’t covered by the mainstream media, but once it got its fame, it started

getting misused by everyone. Anyone who had the money to get famous had the

option to be a rapper, even if they had no talent, voice, musical experience,

etc. Hip-Hop was at its best during the late 80’s and 90’s, but after the

2000’s, it started being misused by people who didn’t have any skills related to

Hip-Hop at all.

“Panda” was a song of Desiigner, which reached 2nd in the Billboard charts of

2016. I’m going to show how a song from 1997, which didn’t even reach top 100 in

billboard charts, is much more developed than Desiigner’s “Panda”. I’m talking

about the song “Somebody’s Gotta Die” by The Notorious B.I.G.

Desiigner came up with the title when he was playing Grand Theft Auto, saw a

BMW X6 out of the window, and was thinking of the panda emoji. Since they have

nothing to do with each other, it shows how the song has nothing to do with any

relevant problem. And what makes it even worse is that he came up with the title

first, and then worked around it. The song consists, of an intro, the repetition

of the hook, and the repetition of the word “Panda”. The intro prepares the

audience for what they’re about hear, as if it’s a masterpiece. I think so

because he says, “This what they all been waitin' for”, and “I'ma give it

everythin’ I got”. In the hook, he brags about his “broads in Atlanta”, his

money, cars, and his life as a ‘gangster’. At one point, he expands the hook,

but basically says the same things. The song doesn’t have a flow. The rhymes are

extremely weak. The rhyme patterns are the ones that kids learn in the 3rd

grade. They’re only put in the end of the lines, and most of the times he just

rhymes words with themselves. His creativity is worse than the one of an 8

year-old. The instrumental at least matches with the mood of the song, but since

the song has no lyrical content, it also puts the instrumental down.

Biggie’s song, on the other hand, is about an important problem, uses

literary devices, has a very nice flow, an instrumental that matches with the

mood, etc. The song “Somebody’s Gotta Die” is about a story that hurt him. It’s

about Biggie trying to kill Jason, who had killed one of Biggie’s friends. When

he shoots Jason, he sees that Jason was holding his daughter, exactly what

Biggie was trying to avoid, killing a man in front of his family. One example of

well placed literary devices is the foreshadowing in the last verse. When Sing,

another friend of Biggie, told him that they should spray bullets at Jason,

Biggie told him that’s not fine, because they might miss the target and “murder

innocent kids”, which is exactly what would happen if Biggie wouldn’t be careful

at the end when he shot Jason.

Biggie’s flow is considered as the best in hip-hop history, and that’s

because there are rhymes everywhere in his songs. Even by just looking at the

first two lines of this song you can find 9 words that rhyme together. Except

the rhymes, you can also find two hidden messages in just the second line.

The instrumental is very well done as well. The rhythm of the bass is

slightly slowed down, exactly like the mood someone would have at 3:52 in the

morning, which is the setting of the story. The instrumental follows the story,

meaning that when the story is calm, the instrumental is also ‘calm’, and

vice-versa. What makes it even more dark is that there are sound effects added.

One of them is the sound of the rain with the silence of the city in 3:52 in the

morning. And then, when Jason is shot, you can hear a baby crying and a woman

screaming.

After analyzing and looking more into the two songs, I now think, more than

ever, that hip-hop is ‘dead’. Biggie’s song, which didn’t even hit the top 100

on the billboard charts, is way better than “Panda” which hit second, 19 years

later. And I don’t think that anyone would argue with that, because I have never

faced an argument supporting “Panda”, even though I’ve asked many times before.

But some may, at least, say that hip-hop isn’t really ‘dead’, because there

still are rappers that have songs with quality content. While I would agree with

the second part of that argument, I think that those songs are very rare

nowadays, so I’d still call hip-hop ‘dead’.

重点词汇及短语：

go through 通过，完成了

mainstream 主流

Grand Theft Auto [电影]疯狂恋爱跑天下

repetition 重复

brag 夸夸其谈

be considered as 被认为是...

slowe down 慢下来

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