In this evaluation I will talk about how hip hop has had a cultural impact on politics. Cultural politics in hip hop hasn't changed much in the topics rappers talk about, it's the way they talk about it that has changed the most in the essay, I'll talk about two generations of conscious rappers, this is Tupac Shakur and Kendrick Lamar and how they use there music and videos for that music to talk about issues and try to change the world. I will briefly talk about the history of hip hop, the term hip-hop was first used in 1974 when Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Caz and Afrika bambaataa started playing parties all over the Bronx in New York after seeing DJ Kool Herc performing at a block party. For these block parties the song was criticized for promoting violence against the police with lines like "I'm a sniper with an amazing scope / I'll take out a cop or two." This and many other artists of the time led to the subgenre of hip hop known as West-Coast Hip Hop, as opposed to the then East Coast-dominated rap. The West Coast style came from the streets and spoke to the problems of a young black man an individual living in Los Angeles would have to deal with this style, it would go by the name of Gangsta Rap and would be heavily involved with the Bloods and the Crips, two of the largest in Los Angeles. At the end of this verse he asks Kendrick to tell his story if he does it's big and then ends with "and if I die, brother, leave your album, I hope - (you shoot)" and goes right into the chorus which says "promise that you will sing about me." The next stories in the track are about the sister of a dead prostitute that Kendrick sang about in another song called "Keisha's Song" in this verse she tries to tell Kendrick that he was ignorant for humiliating his sister and judging her past and he leaves then says "my sister died in vain, but what point are you trying to gain?" the track ends with her saying don't ignore me as she slowly fades away