Research for Hip-Hop Genre

Hip-Hop conventions that we have noticed:

1) Prodominantly, black people invented HipHop music, therefore there are more black artists within the genre. The recent MOBO award featured mostly black artists celebrating their invention.

2) Most HipHop tracks that we have looked at had cars, girls and designer brand jewelery and sunglasses

3) HipHop artist also use another artist in there song. Snoop Dogg used Pharell as his featured artist in his track 'Drop it like its hot'

4) The story in the music video's are closely related to the lyrics of the song. Soulja Boy 'Kiss me through the phone' had people in the video giving kisses to their loved ones over the phone...

5) There are more American HipHop artists. Most British HipHop artists are unheard of, or not popular

6) The setting of the HipHop tracks are usually at rich or unusual places. There are more affects and lighting used. In Kanye West's video 'Stroner' he uses strong lighting affects.

By Mohammed Saifur Rahman, Riaj Uddin and Sheikh Mahfuz