Talking Points # 4 on Tricia Rose

Tricia Rose A style nobody can deal with: politics, style and the postindustrial city in hip hop

Some things that I understood from the article was that hip hop was started in the Hispanic and Black communities where they didn’t have a lot of money.
It also states in the text, “Hip hop remains a never ending battle for status, prestige, and group adoration which is always in formation, always contested and never fully achieved.” This defiantly is still happening in some areas around the world. It reminds me of the movie with Eminem in it…I forgot the name but hopefully it will come to me..*lol it just came to me..8 mile!
I also understood that many rappers and DJs come up with their names to represent their personalities and they choose their turn and local status by developing their own style or persona. A lot of the fashion trends that were popular back in the 80’s are coming back into style. For instance many people still wear baggy jeans, and big bling. The only part that is different is that it most likely is not fake to many of the well known rappers and DJs out there.
The beginning of the article completely lost me and I had a hard time focusing on what the authors main points were. Some things that I did not understand were the terms diasporic on pg 403 and postindustrial conditions on the same page. I also did not know what they meant but the term social rupture on pg 411. Some other words that I got stuck on were astutely on pg 412.
Teenagers are often seen as these monsters who want to ruin everyone else’s lives. I thought that this article about hip hop thought the same in the early 80s when it first becoming popular. Some of the phrases in the text make you think that hip hop is often seen as something bad. When in reality its how different music artists express themselves. On pg 408 some phrases that support this reason..portable ghetto blasters..symbolic street battles. Hip hop is very competitive and confrontational…
While I was reading this article a lot of the terms reminded me of things that I am used to. For instance, when they were talking about the break dancers and how they made the street theaters friendly I thought of the movie step up. On pg 409 when they were talking about the large plastic alarm clocks in style I thought of Flavor Flav and how he always has a different alarm clock to match his outfit. Also when they were talking about the break dancer moves and about how popping and locking are moves in which the joints are snapped abruptly into angular positions. I thought of the song Pop Lock & drop it.