Hip-Hop Blog

Hip-hop is welcoming, free-spirited, and cultural. Hip-Hop is welcoming because it plays as a safe haven to many people. There are people that may not be wanted anywhere else but Hip-Hop accepts all people; White, Black, Asian, gay, straight, politicians, thugs, and just all types of people in general. Hip-hop is free-spirited, through hip-hop you can express how you feel however and whenever you want. Hip-hop is cultural because it is filled with lots of culture, mainly black culture but it always has other cultures in the hip-hop music, clothes, videos, etc.

The hub is the place on campus that interacts with my definition of hip-hop. The Hub cultural room is where a lot of students on campus go to hangout, study, or even take a quick nap in between classes. the hub is welcoming just like Hip-hop to all the different types of students here at UF. The hub is somewhere you can be free-spirited; share a couple laughs with friends, take a nap, eat your lunch, the hub is somewhere you can be yourself without getting judge. Finally, just like hip-hop the Hub is cultural although it's not mainly black culture its still very full of different cultures.

Kanye West Runaway "Chinawear"

 I chose Scene 5 "Chinawear",  due to the lack of audio. It was very intresting to me that that scene did not have music nor did it have any type of dialogue or even a monologue, just the clinging sound of the chinawear when they touch each other. In this scene Kanye is trying to teach the "Phoenix" how to properly sip out of a gilt cup. It looks as though he was prepping her for the dinner that is to cme in the next scene. Or that he is trying to refine and civilize her . What I think Kanye is trying to say in this scene is that as human beings we have to "train" or "prepare" ourselves on how to keep in the artistic burning passions that we have deep inside just to appear and do as everyone else. I analyzed that due to the lack of audio in that scene that Kanye was expressing that in life everything we learn doesn't have to directly come out of the "teacher's" mouth and that with proper guidance we can learn on our own through our mistakes and  by just trying till we get it right. The lack of audio was a great way to convey that lesson.

Blog Post 1C

 It was a rainy Sunday afternoon, mid-summer in the year 2004; I was awaken by a knock on my front. I was home with two of my older sisters which at the time were still sleeping. At the age of eight I was always told not to answer the door alone but I did not want to wake up my sisters so I went about answering the door on my own. Thankfully, it was just some of my neighborhood friends asking if I wanted to come out to play. I automatically thought no because it was raining, but they said that we would be playing in the rain and that it would be fun. Without a second thought I left my house and followed them to their house. I didn't tell my sisters nor did I call to ask my mom for permission. I knew that that was a bad idea but I would of felt lame if I said no to my friends. At that age I found it very important to impress my friends even if that meant not listening to my mom. Halfway to their house I started coughing, I realized that this wasn't such a great idea. At that moment I had an epiphany, I didn't have to follow my friends and make bad decisions because they told me to; my mother raised me better than that. I told my friends that I was going back home because my mom wouldn't be happy with me playing in the rain. They taunted me and called me all sorts of names just because I decided to go back home but this was an educational moment for me because I then realized that real friends wouldn't let you make bad decisions. Since that moment my insight on what real friends are has changed and I surrounded myself with better people and surprisingly my life took a change for the better. I started doing better in school because my new friends would help me do homework instead of telling me to forget homework and come out to play. Such an odd way to experience an educational scene.