Lecture 4 Quiz

A  The Bloods

B  Wu Tang Clan

C  Death Row Records

D  The Universal Zulu Nation

A  Because they wouldn’t have to pay royalties

B  Because the samplers came-pre-loaded with jazz samples

C  Because old jazz records could be retuned easily to be in any key.

D  Because jazz represented an idealized version of African American achievement.

A  A hyper realistic one

B  A positive and communitarian one.

C  A dark and violent one

D  One that seems more like a setting from a Kung Fu movie

A  Making it with a DJ instead of a live band

B  Imagining it in a European museum

C  Imagining it from a cultural perspective that excludes European influence and oppression.

D  Learning how to copy it to sell.

A  The oppressed races according to the 5%rs

B  Be Allah, God

C  Blood, African-Americans, and the money to be made in rapping

D  The Pan – African Flag

A  It would broaden the subject matter of Hip Hop beyond both party and “reality” raps.

B  It would de-emphasize issues relating to African Americans

C  It wouldn’t – as early as “The Breaks” both were prominent

D  It would encourage the use of languages other than English

A  Hello George

B  Hello Gun

C  Hello, Gangsta

D  Hello, God

A  They funded their international outreach programs with Hip Hop records.

B  They held Hip Hop parties at a time when other groups could not due to fear of gang conflict

C  They were present on street corners in low-income largely Black neighbourhoods encouraging a kind of literacy that revolves around rhyming and the mystical meanings of words.

D  They used His Hop instead of Gospel music at their church services

A  The founder of the Nations of Gods and Earths

B  The agent who discovered Rakim

C  The first rapper who espoused religious ideas

D  The 1st DJ who espoused religious ideas

A  The Bomb Squad used very sparse production but RZA favoured the super dense.

B  The Bomb Squad wanted to keep people dancing for hours but this is a short song

C  The Bomb Squad used hyper-dense textures but here RZA is using a simple and bare production.

D  The Bomb Squad pioneered party raps and here we hear something very different

A  Wobbly, lo-fi samples

B  Loose arrangements.

C  Roughly cut edits

D  All of the above

A  To lengthen the song to collect more royalties

B  To connect the present to a time in the future where equality reigns.

C  It was a mistake but they though it sounded cool so they left in on

D  To tie the realities that GZA is referring to in the song to an imaginary world of honour.