Music 17 - Hip Hop » Spring 2020 » Lecture 3 Quiz

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Question #1
This song is based on a song that we listened to earlier this week. What song is it ?
A.   PSK (What Does It Mean) - Schooly D
B.   Batterram - Toddy Tee
C.   Atomic Dog - Parliament
D.   Standing of the Verge of Getting It On - Funkadelic
Question #2
How would you characterize Snoop Dogg's relationship with the beat ?
A.   He raps on top of it
B.   He raps ahead of it.
C.   He doesn't engage with it.
D.   He raps behind it.
Question #3
What style of Hip Hop is this ?
A.   Gangsta Rap
B.   P-Funk
C.   G-Funk
D.   Authentic Rap
Question #4
How does this video connect to Henry Louis Gates' literary theories ?
A.   Gates connects the history of this story to a trope of African-American literature
B.   Gates got his start in show business in this movie
C.   Gates saw this movie and based his ideas on Rudy Ray Moore's comedy
D.   Gates felt that it was more important to swear a lot to show anger than it was to be clever
Question #5
How is the story here different than most retellings ?
A.   Most of the time it is not a monkey but a British boy in the story.
B.   Most of the time there is no swearing
C.   Most of the time it is a Bengal Tiger and not an African Lion
D.   Most of the time the monkey wins.
Question #6
Most of the time it is a Bengal Tiger and not an African Lion
A.   The fact that he is talking about cars at the beginning.
B.   The way that Pusha-T raps - i.e. his flow.
C.   The inclusion of the Jay-Z interpolation.
D.   The inclusion of rhymes in the lyrics
Question #7
Why is Ice Cube explaining that rap lyrics are a form of the dozens ?
A.   He is connecting rap lyrics to mainstream, "White" culture.
B.   He doesn't want to have to pay royalties.
C.   He was sued for copyright infringement.
D.   He is connecting rap lyrics to a larger tradition.
Question #8
Why would he have needed to do the above ?
A.   Because he was being sued for copyright infringement.
B.   Because some people, particularly in "mainstream" America, thought that the lyrics described real events and desires.
C.   Because he was going to retire and needed to ensure that the money kept rolling in.
D.   Because he was hired to star in a kids' movie and needed to clean up his image.
Question #9
How, then , is one way that would we hear The Dozens in rap lyrics ?
A.   In over-the-top insults and threats of violence
B.   In the fact that at the time Hip Hop was becoming political.
C.   In the use of rhyming.
D.   In superficial lyrics about dancing.
Question #10
Dr. Dre produced this. Note the aggressive breakbeat and James Brown samples. How did this production differ from other productions that Dre was working on at the time ?
A.   His other productions were more pared-down and were criticized as being too much like Rick Rubin's
B.   His other productions reflected his earlier influences of electro-funk from the 1970s and early 1980s.
C.   His other productions largely features string sections and slow, ballad-like sections.
D.   Dre had a day job editing disco mixes and his other productions were largely instrumental with no rapping whatsoever.
Question #11
How would this record have been distributed ?
A.   It was distributed via Priority Records' alternative network which avoided commercial radio altogether.
B.   It was exported and then re-imported to avoid an explicit lyrics sticker
C.   Via Sony's massive radio-based network
D.   It was sold out of the back of a car.

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