In the 21st century, young Nigerians frequently cite Jay-Z astheir favorite artist. American hip-hop has provided a blueprint for the restof the world to appropriate and build new cultural formations that manifestin music and identity. Yet, the subtitle of Jay-Z's Blueprint 2 album("The Gift and The Curse") is an apt description for the complexityof this relationship between African American culture and Nigerian youthidentity, which also impacts Nigerian popular music.
In the 21st century, young Nigerians frequently site Jay-Z, LilWayne, and Usher as their favorite artists. They have identified closely withAmerican hip hop culture and have come to embody a certain style, a sense ofwhat it is to be authentically "hip hop." Much of what is nowunderstood as R&B finds a home within the general definition of hip hopculture. It is rare to find an R&B star who has not collaborated in someway with a hip hop artist or at least imbibed a sound, beat, or swagger thatis extracted from the art, actions, and demeanor of hip hop artists and theiraudiences. Young Nigerians aspire to acquire the essence of "cool,"which is tightly linked to the notion or perception of a contrivedcontemporary African American identity. American hip-hop has provided ablueprint for the rest of the world to appropriate and build new culturalformations that manifest in music and identity. Jeff Chang asserts that"hip hop culture has become one of the most far-reaching arts movementsof the previous three decades." (1) Perhaps more than any other Africancountry, impressionable Nigerian youth have received hip hop and ingested itto such an extent that much of the indigenous pop music that is created therehas the overwhelming taste of American hip hop.
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Third and most importantly, by its very nature, hip hop is anall-encompassing phenomenon. Many adherents and scholars view it as a way oflife. However, as mentioned above the version of hip hop culture that Ishipped across the Atlantic is a construct of mainstream music management andby extension, mainstream audiences. Indeed, this version of American hip-hopculture has provided these young Nigerians with a blueprint for shedding theold skin of their indigenous selves in order to form new problematicidentities. be457b7860
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