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stephanie Torres adition to the section of hip hop article music and politics Kanye West has been real vocal artist with polotics this few years along with many people of the united states "SHORTLY AFTER DONALD Trump won the presidency, Kanye West, the successful and controversial hip-hop artist and fashion mogul, tried to start a conversation about political pluralism. On stage during a show in San Jose, California, he admitted something he knew would alarm a lot of his audience: While he hadn’t actually voted, have been for Trump. mean that I don’t think that black lives matter,” he clarified. “That don’t mean I don’t think that I’m a believer in women’s rights. That don’t mean I don’t believe in gay marriage.” Still, West told his San Jose crowd, it was time to “stop focusing on racism….We are in a racist country, period". Many times Kanye west has shown his soport and respect to president trump and he has not only included that on his rants in social media but maintained a balance with his music "He became active again in 2018, releasing a string of albums that he either performed on or produced in early summer. This time, it looked like his politics might not hinder his creative ventures. His solo record Ye quickly hit No. 1. A week later, a collaboration with Kid Cudi called Kids See Ghosts debuted at No. 2, while Ye held on to No. 5.

But during this same period of artistic fertility, he also dove back into politics, doubling down on his support for Trump. The cultural storm he generated by praising the president didn’t initially drive away his core audience, but it did result in months of increasing pressure that culminated in a late October announcement from the singer that he would be eschewing political arguments to focus on just being creative. The bumpy road leading to that declaration demonstrates the toxicity of politics today—and, as collateral damage, likely ends West’s ability to use his influence to do real good for real people." Kanye west used his plat form of twitter to rant about his views on polotics and he tried to agree with the movements our current president has to shift our nations and although he may not agree with all of president trumps actions he does think he does have valid points but his wording and approach may risk his musc career and fan base "in April 2018, after being absent from Twitter for over a year and having released no music in the interim, West tweeted a photo of himself in a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat. People got mad all over again. In response, he tweeted that “the mob can’t make me not love” Trump. “We are both dragon energy,” he said. “He is my brother.” West also struck up an unlikely ideological alliance with Candace Owens of the right-wing advocacy group Turning Point USA. Owens, a black woman who pushes black support for the Republican Party, became a frequent public companion, including at the release event for West’s Ye album, which he issued about a month after launching himself as a born-again MAGAite."

His political stand coused many controversial with his collages " In response to the MAGA controversy, West and rapper T.I. rush-released a duet single, “Ye vs. the People.” In it, T.I. stands in for “the people,” capturing the baffled incredulity of Trump-hating Kanye fans. “This shit is stubborn, selfish, bullheaded, even for you,” he raps. “You wore a dusty-ass hat to represent the same views as white supremacy, man. We expect better from you.” West counters that his wearing a MAGA hat rebranded it: “Make America Great Again had a negative perception. I took it, wore it, rocked it, gave it a new direction. Added empathy, care, and love and affection.” He analogized reaching out to the MAGA world as “like a gang truce, the first Blood to shake the Crip’s hand.”

Kanye has used many outlets of promotions to show his political views "West has been increasingly vocal of his support of President Trump, proudly wearing a Make America Great Again hat and tweeting he loves Trump's "dragon energy." West also used his most recent appearance on Saturday Night Live to give an impromptu, unaired speech in support of Trump."

After all celebrities in the hip hop industry has been known really vocal about their opinion and include the element of personal experience in their craft of music which succeed to create a common connection with the fans. We do live in a very controversial world now a days were we have two sides to the way the government and the presenting the image of america and celebrities have used their platform to show people not to be afraid to speak up and Kanye west is an example in the music industry that has gotten much attention.

Alondra- The Hip-Hop group N.W.A has had their political take within their songs. Their most controversial song "F**k Tha Police", shined a light on police brutality who used racially biased tactics in Los Angeles during the '80s and '90s. With their memorable verse "F**k tha police, coming straight from the underground, young n***a got it bad cause I'm brown, and not the other color so the police think they have the authority to kill a minority",lead them to receive arrest threats for performing police-bashing songs. Their song "Express youself" addressed the matters on the restricitve limits of rapper in the industry. In their music video, it shows how black people are have no voice and are punished when they speak up.

Tariq Badr's addition to the hip hop section of the music and politics wikipedia article:

Marshall Mathers, also known as rapper Eminem released an album called "Kamikaze" and it contained many political messages, most of them revolving around his disapproval of Donald Trump being elected President of the United States. He stated he was willing to lose fans over this criticism when he “And any fan of mine/who’s a supporter of his/I’m drawing in the sand a line/you’re either for or against,”