![]() ![]() As a new civil rights movement, #BlackLivesMatter has incited palpable discontent across the country, due to the high-profile deaths of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, and Walter Scott. Kendrick Lamar is from the tradition of artists like Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Bob Marley, and Stevie Wonder, who used politically charged responses to the racism, police brutality, and violence that plagues society. Pulitzer Prize awarded to Kendrick Lamar on April 16, 2018, for his DAMN recording masterpiece was the first non-classical, non-jazz album in the Board's 75-year history to win the award. Through the use of the Internet and its music distribution, many alternative artists traditionally from disenfranchised voices are finding acceptance from far off places By 2009, international hip hop and its global themed movements began to address issues of worldwide importance. alternative music generated its place securely within mainstream hip hop, due to the success of artists like Kanye West, Pharrell Williams and OutKast music began to shift in all directions, spanning many musical genres, including country, jazz, gospel, R&B, soul, and punk rock, with rap artists collaborations. By 2009, artists like Eminem, Rick Ross, the Black Eyed Peas, and Fabulous all had albums to reach the number one position on Billboard top 200. ![]() KEY: young people were now downloading music and not purchasing through the conventional methods, hip hop has remained a popular music genre with rap artists still topping the Billboard charts. ![]() Many instigated the question if hip hop was dying, since in the year 2000, rap sales were down 44%, and for the first time in years, no rap albums had reached the top ten sellers in 2006. Sales in hip hop music starting in 2005 began to decline in America. ![]()
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