AFAS 371 Spring (Actual) Exam
Graded A+
A hip hop feminist is more than just someone who likes to listen to rap music and feels
conflicted about it. A hip hop feminist is someone who was immersed in hip hop culture
and experiences hip hop as a way of life. Hip hop as a culture, in turn, _______ his or
her world view or approach to life - ANSWER-influences
A House Party is, in fact, a party given in someone's house, but "to House the party"
means to _______ ________ ________, to bum rush it, to take it over - ANSWER-turn
it out
According to the film, who comes up with the idea of investing into the music business?
Dr. Dre
Arabian Prince
Mc Ren
Easy E
Ice Cube - ANSWER-Dr. Dre
And when we talk about the ways in which hip hop videos are similar to pornography,
we cannot have the conversation without looking at the ways in which pornography has
______ the larger culture as well - ANSWER-infiltrated
As the film continues, it becomes clear that the premise of the film, Kid's going to the
party without his father's consent, is ultimately a _______ of his manhood - ANSWER-
test
Beat Street strongly incorporated extended social commentary while also including the
significance of hip-hop clothing, language, and attitudes (top/mid pg 11 in book) -
ANSWER-False
By representing rappers as being similar to any other aspiring talents, the movie (Krush
Groove) encourages viewer to __ on a fundamental level with the characters -
ANSWER-relate
By the late 1970s, the term blaxploitation had come under attack in black communities
as "white control and commercialization of the ghetto imagery, while from the white side
of the fence it denigrated the idea of black creative control, since, though the bulk of the
films were now written and directed by whites, they were still marketed and sold as the
original and _____ product of black imaginations" - ANSWER-Control, authentic
Da mayor saves the life of a young boy - ANSWER-True
, Extra credit: Who sued the production of Straight Outta Compton for a false portrayal of
him? You are going to have to look this one up.
Actor Ice Cube
Andre Romelle Young, aka Dr. Dre
Former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller - ANSWER-Former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller
Hip hop related films from the beginning were linked to an appeal of the exotic and
foreign rather than social activism (pg 7 in book) - ANSWER-True
Homosexuality is present and ______ from the black man and the black community.
This presence and detachment serves two purposes. First, there is the establishment of
homosexuality as a deviation from and ________ to heterosexual black masculinity.
Class and submerged in a discourse of heterosexual, masculine difference, and is
defined, and subsequently undefined, by the removal of homosexuality and the
_______ of a good, straight black man from a bad, straight black man, a positive image
from a negative image - ANSWER-detached, threat, differentiation
How does Nino take revenge against the mob?
They are lured to wharf and murdered
His men shoots members as they are eating outside a café
Members are knifed simultaneously by individual members of CMD
He bombs a key mob place of business - ANSWER-His men shoots members as they
are eating outside a café
However, as Jacquie Jones contends in "the new ghetto aesthetic," "unlike rap music
that can be seen as a reformulation of popular music ... homeboy cinema does not
_____ existing conventions. Instead, it exists as a ______ of sensationalist
sensationalist Hollywood formulae" - ANSWER-threaten, modification
I have written elsewhere that hip hop culture did not spring up full grown on its own and
that it _____ on other legacies that exist in the culture and the community that we are
not always willing to see. Others have noted that hip hop does not exist in a social-
cultural ______, that as a part of the larger culture it takes on elements of the larger
culture as well - ANSWER-Builds, vacuum
In its commodified forms, hip hop has _____ nearly all aspects of American and world
visual culture - ANSWER-Energized
In terms of rap music and hip hop culture, they want to find ways to move ______
counting the amount of times a particular rapper says the word "bitch" or "ho" to a focus
on what they consider to be larger issues and concerns - ANSWER-beyond
In the 1950s, movies also began to exploring the teenage angst that led to music's
appeal (mid pg 8 in book) - ANSWER-True
Graded A+
A hip hop feminist is more than just someone who likes to listen to rap music and feels
conflicted about it. A hip hop feminist is someone who was immersed in hip hop culture
and experiences hip hop as a way of life. Hip hop as a culture, in turn, _______ his or
her world view or approach to life - ANSWER-influences
A House Party is, in fact, a party given in someone's house, but "to House the party"
means to _______ ________ ________, to bum rush it, to take it over - ANSWER-turn
it out
According to the film, who comes up with the idea of investing into the music business?
Dr. Dre
Arabian Prince
Mc Ren
Easy E
Ice Cube - ANSWER-Dr. Dre
And when we talk about the ways in which hip hop videos are similar to pornography,
we cannot have the conversation without looking at the ways in which pornography has
______ the larger culture as well - ANSWER-infiltrated
As the film continues, it becomes clear that the premise of the film, Kid's going to the
party without his father's consent, is ultimately a _______ of his manhood - ANSWER-
test
Beat Street strongly incorporated extended social commentary while also including the
significance of hip-hop clothing, language, and attitudes (top/mid pg 11 in book) -
ANSWER-False
By representing rappers as being similar to any other aspiring talents, the movie (Krush
Groove) encourages viewer to __ on a fundamental level with the characters -
ANSWER-relate
By the late 1970s, the term blaxploitation had come under attack in black communities
as "white control and commercialization of the ghetto imagery, while from the white side
of the fence it denigrated the idea of black creative control, since, though the bulk of the
films were now written and directed by whites, they were still marketed and sold as the
original and _____ product of black imaginations" - ANSWER-Control, authentic
Da mayor saves the life of a young boy - ANSWER-True
, Extra credit: Who sued the production of Straight Outta Compton for a false portrayal of
him? You are going to have to look this one up.
Actor Ice Cube
Andre Romelle Young, aka Dr. Dre
Former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller - ANSWER-Former N.W.A manager Jerry Heller
Hip hop related films from the beginning were linked to an appeal of the exotic and
foreign rather than social activism (pg 7 in book) - ANSWER-True
Homosexuality is present and ______ from the black man and the black community.
This presence and detachment serves two purposes. First, there is the establishment of
homosexuality as a deviation from and ________ to heterosexual black masculinity.
Class and submerged in a discourse of heterosexual, masculine difference, and is
defined, and subsequently undefined, by the removal of homosexuality and the
_______ of a good, straight black man from a bad, straight black man, a positive image
from a negative image - ANSWER-detached, threat, differentiation
How does Nino take revenge against the mob?
They are lured to wharf and murdered
His men shoots members as they are eating outside a café
Members are knifed simultaneously by individual members of CMD
He bombs a key mob place of business - ANSWER-His men shoots members as they
are eating outside a café
However, as Jacquie Jones contends in "the new ghetto aesthetic," "unlike rap music
that can be seen as a reformulation of popular music ... homeboy cinema does not
_____ existing conventions. Instead, it exists as a ______ of sensationalist
sensationalist Hollywood formulae" - ANSWER-threaten, modification
I have written elsewhere that hip hop culture did not spring up full grown on its own and
that it _____ on other legacies that exist in the culture and the community that we are
not always willing to see. Others have noted that hip hop does not exist in a social-
cultural ______, that as a part of the larger culture it takes on elements of the larger
culture as well - ANSWER-Builds, vacuum
In its commodified forms, hip hop has _____ nearly all aspects of American and world
visual culture - ANSWER-Energized
In terms of rap music and hip hop culture, they want to find ways to move ______
counting the amount of times a particular rapper says the word "bitch" or "ho" to a focus
on what they consider to be larger issues and concerns - ANSWER-beyond
In the 1950s, movies also began to exploring the teenage angst that led to music's
appeal (mid pg 8 in book) - ANSWER-True
