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Look at me, screams this graphic, see my style and my upbeat cues, and notice how I blend the core of hip hop and rap with a figure who is obviously a baby! This graphic is progressive, and it shows an incredible melting pot of different influential musical schools including rap, r&b, and hip hop. While these three used to be more separate, they tend to blend together in the cities to form one large sized group that produces some of the most popular and most sought after musical forms in the United States, and even in other countries as well (although often times the hip hop of the UK differs immensely from that of the US due to the cultural differences between the two countries, and the same holds true for hip hop around the globe).
This graphic is a true depiction of how hip hop has changed the way the current generation feels about music, and how this feeling, this passion for music has influenced the way they view the world. Our society is so commercialized these days that it is often completely impossible to find something you own, do, or think that hasn't somehow been marketed to you by media giants like MTV or BBC. And yet, the street style of the hip hop generation is changing this. Not all at once, but one step at a time, hip hop and rap battle furiously against the norm, constantly trying to one up their predecessors and become more and more original. This graphic demonstrates this idea well.
In the design, a child crawls out of ring of concentric circles of orange and brown with a microphone in hand. A muscle car rides out from his left, and a spray can appears to be finishing tagging the upper right hand corner of the image. Flowers are splashed in alternating orange and brown around the outer edges of the graphic, and these earthy tones make them all the more attractive and stylish.
The fashion factor of this design is absolutely undeniable - the graphic is attractive without being flashy, energetic without being frantic, and fun without being cute. It is something that fuses everything that describes and explains hip hop culture all into one single image with incredible completeness and fluency. |
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