Hip Hop Artist from Various Places

By Farah Fan


Far across the Atlantic in the nation of Somalia, Kaynaan Warsame was introduced to rap through the lyrical styling hip hop artist of Eric B. and Rakim. Even though K'Naan could not comprehend English at the time, his heart thumped along with the pulse of Paid in Full. As fate would have it, music proved itself to be the universal language that transcends all ethnicities. In no time, K'Naan would hone his rapping abilities, master the English language, and gain admiration around the world as the "dusty foot philosopher." Minute by minute, as the world grows smaller, K'naan's narrative puts an international face on the burgeoning hip hop movement.

Though made in the U.S. by African-Americans (some with Jamaican heritage), hip hop lifestyle and music is now global in scope. Asia, The Middle East, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean have long-established hip hop followings. According to the U.S. Department of State, rap is now the biggest market of a mega music and fashion industry around the world that crosses social boundaries and cuts across racial lines. National Geographic acknowledges rap as the world's most popular youth culture in which just about every country in the world appears to have developed its own local rap scene. Through its international travels, rap is currently considered a global musical pandemic, and has diverged from its ethnic roots by way of globalization and localization.

From its early spread to Europe to an almost globally acceptance through Asia and South American nations such as Brazil, the musical effect has been global. Hip hop sounds and styles differ from area to area, but there is also a lot of crossbreeding. Unlike the old genres, which made popular throughout the nation via radio, rap tends to keep its regional personality. No matter where it is found, the songs often targets local disaffected youth.

Hip hop has given people a voice to express themselves, from the Bronx to Beirut, Kazakhstan to Cali, Hokkaido to Harare gangster rap is the new sound of a disaffected global youth culture. Though on the global scale there's a heavy influence from US culture, various ethnicities worldwide have transformed gangster rap with their own customs and values. Global rap works best when it displays cultures that reside away from main arteries of the African Diaspora. Not all nations have accepted rap, where as should be expected in countries with strong local lifestyle, the interloping wild type of hip hop might not be welcomed.

Although some non-American rap performer may still relate with young urban Americans, hip hop now goes beyond its original way of life, and is appealing because it is custom-made to battle the anomie that preys on adolescents wherever no one understands their name. Rap is attractive in its capability to give a voice to disenfranchised youth in any country, and as songs with a message, it is a kind available to all organizations throughout the world. Gangster rap has affected a variety of nations culturally and socially in good ways. Thousands of coordinators from Cape Town to Paris use hip hop in their areas to handle ecological justice, policing and prisons, media justice, and education.




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