"Oni, my, wy, no i tamci", czyli o zmianach w polskim rapie
„They, we, you and the others”, or about changes in polish rap In this article has been presented beginning of polish rap history. The article is about the very first steps, when american’s standards was adapting to local needs in Poland. Author described differences between Afroamerican’s life and the reality of polish boys lived in large cities.Central problem of the article is about huge changes in polish rap over the last years. In the text author presented different topics and trends, showed that rappers’ earnings and prestige has been changed as well. Then the listener has been changed too. In the short time, rap has been turned into mainstream music. Today’s artists as well as listeners come from diverse environment, social and economical class.Recently rappers show us the world from many perspectives. They represent various worldview, attitudes and values. Rap’s lyrics can be xenophobic, homophobic and sexist, but also anti-patriarchal or anti-racist. We can listen to vulgar, rough and linguistically incorrect music or we can listen really good, grammatical lyrics about important and political correctly topics, because present rap is very differential and everyone should find something for themselves.
Institutions
- University of Gdańsk (PL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2024-12-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14516982
- Primary Topic
- Music History and Culture
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00